Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt
02 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, Politics
Just… wow. Really? Didn’t we just have Congressional hearings about the crap that comes this sort of thing ala the Department of Justice?
[Thanks to Alan]
30 Aug 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, McCain, Politics
Frankly, I just don’t get this. What is McCain thinking? I understand the reformer angle, I get the play for the gender vote, I get the youthful Mom demographic thing. But, seriously, this is a politician not ready for federal office. You can’t harp on Obama’s inexperience and then turn around and choose a first term governor from a small (population-wise) state (47th least populated) and expect no incredulity from voters. I mean, come on; her previous job was mayor of a town of 5,469 people (as of the 2000 census). For my Michigan friends, that’s about the same as having the mayor of Zeeland (2000 census population of 5,805) get picked as the VP candidate.
As Rogers Cadenhead points out, this also someone who has demonstrated extremely bad judgement with regard to not only her own life, but the life of her unborn child. All you parents, would you trust someone with the well-being of the entire country who risked her own child’s life for the geographic location of its birth?
Hopefully, though, she knows what a Veep does now. (She didn’t two months ago.) I really hope there’s something more to this choice, because right now, it feels like an impulse buy.
29 Aug 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, Obama, Politics
This is how a leader sounds. This is what leadership looks like. Not racist slandering, not fear-mongering, not school-yard insults but straight talking, honest patriotism.
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America – they have served the United States of America.
So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.
The coming Republican convention is the last chance the GOP has to win back (note, not “keep”) the thousands of us who are taking our votes elsewhere after the abysmal failure of this current administration and the hijacking of the Republican party by bigots and charlatans.
I’m sick of being labeled an elite because I have an education. I’m tired of the implication that because I see failure and corruption in the Iraq war, I’m not patriotic. And I will no longer support a party that uses religion and fear to bully people into the extremes on issues. We don’t live in the extremes; we live in the gray middles and its time for a leader who not only acknowledges the reality of the American experience, but is able to improve it.
I’m not voting for a saint or a preacher or a hero; I’m voting for the person who can best lead this country to a better tomorrow.
I’m voting for Barack Obama.
19 May 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: Clinton, democrats, election, ignorant, Obama, Politics
One rally and 5% of a state’s registered votes turned out for it. 75,000 people came out to see Barak Obama at one event.
According to CNN, WV cast 337,045 votes in the Democratic primary spread between the two candidate. The rally attendees in Oregon represent 22.3% of cast votes in the WV primary. And Oregon has 52 delegates at stake, almost twice as many as West Virgina.
There’s still a glimmer of hope that the ignorant won’t decide this next election. Fingers crossed.
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