I am having a hard time keeping off the politics right now. I'm pretty stirred up and more than a little pissed off. So far this election isn't about issues, its about rhetoric and sarcastic distraction.
Sarah Palin is not even close to being qualified for the position she's been nominated. It isn't about her being a woman, it isn't about her being a mother of a needy baby with medical issues, it isn't about her being a mother of a pregnant teenager.
It is the combination of her inexperience, her complete lack of international exposure, her religious beliefs, her denial of scientific findings (global warming and evolution being two easy ones), her pro-life/anti-choice beliefs and the overstuffed closet of scandals and misdeeds in her short political career thus far. Need more? Go read Think Progress' Sarah Palin Digest but it ain't pretty. In fact, the whole thing needs to be read by as many Americans as possible.
McCain has the experience but he's also got some deeply held beliefs that are poisonous to this nation. He openly hates the "gooks" who kept him captive and tortured him. He just barely dodged indictment for his deep involvement in the Keating Five scandal in the 90's. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time and has stated he could see the US in Iraq for 50 or 100 years. He's a Luddite who doesn't even begin to grasp the information age and he has absolutely no concept of the challenges facing the real middle class Americans (not the ones he calls middle class who make $5 million a year and only have three or four houses).
Electing John McCain and Sarah Palin won't change anything in this country. Sorry, it won't change anything for the better unless you were already on the money train. For the vast majority of Americans, the election of McCain/Palin will see their lives the worse for it. But they'll sure help the rich get richer, push more Americans into poverty, reduce the number of Americans with healthcare, keep stacking debt onto the national debt, keep disgracing our country abroad, entrench us even deeper in Iraq while Bin Laden STILLS WALKS FREE seven years after 9/11. Notice how nobody in the Republican Party even mentions him anymore?
The thought of four more years of the gutter politics we've labored under is almost too much to bear.
Okay, I promise a post about sunshine and happiness before any more doom and gloom politics. And I think I'll start posting short excerpts here and posting the full posts over on the mostly defunct IP Politik. Yes, I'll dust it off before starting the engine back up over there.
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9.04.2008
6.11.2008
Big Oil Saved by the Effing GOP
Senate Republicans block windfall taxes on Big Oil
If you had any doubts of where their allegiances truly lie, look to today's news that the Republicans are protecting their pals in Big Oil from taxes on their quarter after quarter record profits while the price of gas blasts right through $4 a gallon and is, at least locally, closing in on $5 a gallon.
Oh sure, they spin it as best they can but you can't punch someone in the gut and then pretend you gave them a kiss. It just doesn't work that way and its despicable.
I have not the tiniest bit of respect for these Republican oil company bitches and the elections cannot come soon enough. Absolutely ridiculous.
The Democrats need to keep pushing this again and again. If the Republicans keep knocking it down, they will continue to look like traitors to America as this makes it starkly apparent how little regard they have for real Americans struggling to stay afloat as they've destroyed the economy, sent jobs overseas and basically behaved like a bunch of douchebags for the last eight years.
If you had any doubts of where their allegiances truly lie, look to today's news that the Republicans are protecting their pals in Big Oil from taxes on their quarter after quarter record profits while the price of gas blasts right through $4 a gallon and is, at least locally, closing in on $5 a gallon.
Oh sure, they spin it as best they can but you can't punch someone in the gut and then pretend you gave them a kiss. It just doesn't work that way and its despicable.
I have not the tiniest bit of respect for these Republican oil company bitches and the elections cannot come soon enough. Absolutely ridiculous.
The Democrats need to keep pushing this again and again. If the Republicans keep knocking it down, they will continue to look like traitors to America as this makes it starkly apparent how little regard they have for real Americans struggling to stay afloat as they've destroyed the economy, sent jobs overseas and basically behaved like a bunch of douchebags for the last eight years.
2.29.2008
In No-You're-A-Doodyhead News
NPR: Cunningham Renounces McCain After "Hussein" Flap which was after McCain renounced Cunningham for his warm up the crowd rhetoric that was more like cheap shot rhetoric.
McCain also recently tried to retract a statement that his campaign would succeed or fail based on Iraq. And then he realized that it was a really stupid thing to say so he publicly said he no longer wants that statement applied to him.
Which is fine, the more he looks like a confused and jowly deer in the headlights, the better. I'm starting to think McCain is getting his chance now because his party has made such a colossal mess of things on every front that he's got little chance of winning or repairing the damage they've done.
Why would I not vote for John McCain? There are plenty of reasons but I can distill it down to just a couple. One, he is strongly pro-life and would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade. Two, he's pandered to just about every special interest group he possibly can and owes more favors than a hooker with a gambling problem. Three, he's old and looks it. His person is not presidential, its more crony-ential.
Which isn't to say that I don't have some modicum of respect for the man. He is, after all is said and done, a war hero and a POW and I will never deny him that respect. But it doesn't mean I want his crazy ass making decisions in how to run the country.
McCain also recently tried to retract a statement that his campaign would succeed or fail based on Iraq. And then he realized that it was a really stupid thing to say so he publicly said he no longer wants that statement applied to him.
Which is fine, the more he looks like a confused and jowly deer in the headlights, the better. I'm starting to think McCain is getting his chance now because his party has made such a colossal mess of things on every front that he's got little chance of winning or repairing the damage they've done.
Why would I not vote for John McCain? There are plenty of reasons but I can distill it down to just a couple. One, he is strongly pro-life and would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade. Two, he's pandered to just about every special interest group he possibly can and owes more favors than a hooker with a gambling problem. Three, he's old and looks it. His person is not presidential, its more crony-ential.
Which isn't to say that I don't have some modicum of respect for the man. He is, after all is said and done, a war hero and a POW and I will never deny him that respect. But it doesn't mean I want his crazy ass making decisions in how to run the country.
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