POTUS in MNMPLS

So the dubya visit to Minneapolis is over. Just having that moron less than five miles away from me pissed me off. A major stretch of freeway (35W) was closed to bring him from the airport to downtown Minneapolis. They broadcasted his stupidity live from the convention center on all local channels. I managed to catch about ten seconds before I turned the TV off. They kept all with a negative opinion of dubya at a distance, even keeping signs off overpassses on the freeway.

This all seems quite unfair. As anyone else running for POTUS needs to face hecklers and negative opinion. But dubya gets a moving half mile free speech zone?

I really hope they let more than just Kerry debate dubya when the POTUS debates start. I want to see someone who can rip him a new asshole in a debate, Nader would be a good start. As Kerry, like Gore, has himself a real nice glass house and will never toss any real stones at dubya. We need to see the third, fouth and fifth parties in the debates. Folks with nothing to lose by slapping dubya around....and does that boy need a public slapping around or what?

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Okay this was the icing on the cake yesterday. It seems that my boss, my direct report, now freely admits he has no fucking clue in areas that I am expert. I understand in a meeting that he went to in Atlanta (that I was more quaified to attend**) he freely told many that he had no idea what was going on and that I should be there instead. It seems that the many argee with that. He is also quite disgruntled that he looked like a clueless idiot at this meeting.

So, it seems that almost 100% of my peer group in the techical community of my corperation and my boss think I should be promoted and held onto. The division vice-president and his assistant thinks the same. My grandboss and great grandboss are the only two holdouts in the entire fuckin' company.

Just my luck. Heh.

But in the mean time, the shit stirred up by my disgruntled boss is making for a very interesting soap opera. It should be interesting to see if any leverage is applied without me lifting a finger, just letting my past deeds stand on their own.

I still need to get another job though. But time has been so freekin tight. But a side effect of the events above is that if I do leave the company there will be significant policical fallout on those who held me back.

**But in fact laughed it up good that I did not have to travel. Work travel sucks.

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