It takes character not to take part in the pettiness, mockery and insult. It’s an ideal which theoretically we would like our candidate to have. Unfortunately Obama is clearly being Swift Boated, and his refusal to play the game is going to cost me him the election.
I don’t think he should stoop to practicing the same corrupt politics as the opponent, but he can’t expect to get his point across by accusing the Republicans of “dishonesty” . You have to call them “liars”. Lying is a word most Americans understand. Dishonestly is telling your teacher the dog ate your paper, your parents you are going to your friends house when you’re really going to the 9:30 Club to see Ian MacKaye, or even telling your friend she looks good in those two sizes too small jeans. Not such a big deal to most people. Lying, especially when metaphorically caught on camera as the Republicans clearly have been, is the word. So, lets cut out the nice words. If ten words fit, use the harshest.
On this naive little thought, “I mean, you can’t just make stuff up,” Obama said.
Clearly Senator, they can.
On Earmarks: I took this from The Anchorage News, as it is the most kind to her.
Palin’s take on earmarks evolving
Unlike McCain, though, Palin has not been a purist on earmarks. As Alaska governor, she sought and obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for the state, and as mayor of Wasilla, she hired lobbyist and former Stevens staffer Steve Silver to steer federal money to her town. Some of her own earmark projects even landed on McCain’s list of questionable congressional pork barrel spending when she served as mayor from 1996 to 2002.
“I think she will fit in really well in Washington D.C. because she is already used to saying one thing and doing another,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a key adviser to Sen. Barack Obama and one of the only Democrats who refuses to ask for earmarks.
WSJ on the Bridge fiasco: Record Contradicts Palin’s ‘Bridge’ Claims
Change may never come. I’m aware we may be be living in place where choices are but an illusion.
Some may be satisifed with this, the illusion that every few years a different end of the real party — called the Democpublicans here because of a shrinking with age imagination — will take over. I’m not.
I am certain the change in government will not arrive on a white horse in the skin of a black man. No it won’t. Change in government comes only from the people if they want it bad enough to get off their ass and get it. It occurs from the bottom up, and most people in this country are still rather satisfied. As long as they have their television, and their computer, or a good book a glass of wine and a cigar nothing is gonna bother them much, so identity rules.
The chance for change, the chance to dismantle the illusion of what our government is and make it real, the chance to have someone who makes change at least a possibility before it’s too late. That is what I am voting for.
That and of course the chance to get rid of one of the most criminal governments this country has ever had, and at least temporarily those in power who supported that government.
I’m voting for a chance to change the dirty underwear we’ve been wearing for 8 years.
The chance to change our dirty underwear will come on a white horse in the skin of a black man.
Voting for McCain and Palin, and you are voting for Palin as a potential President of the United States because as Pia says, “It has everything to do with her “qualification” to be VP and probably President if McCain wins because just look at him”), yes voting for them is like putting on a pair of underwear not quite as stained but pooped in by the same asshole.
That my friends is just plain stupid.
Enjoy a Little Mockingbird
Peace
I read that To Kill A Mockingbird was one of the books that Palin tried to have banned from the public library when she was mayor.
I don’t know about that. I really doubt it, that would be too extreme even for an extremist.
This title fits on so many levels.
I’d have replaced the word “poop” with “shit”, but that’s just me.
Nice graphic.
I used shit there first, but this is a classy place. I don’t write that shit here.
It will take a Depression I suppose to get some to change their minds.
Change is perceived as bad – it really is – in many folks minds. When I actually did career work, as an IE, anything I studied and offered suggestions in modifying (Kaizen) it would turn into a fight. I often gritted my teeth in not calling whomever it was an asshole. Because, in most occasions, they were being obstinate not out of intellect or informed position, but out of ignorance and “I’m not going to change because of you, young whipper snapper.”
Palin a heartbeat away should be a scary thought.
I am starting to wonder if this is a game the Democrats are willing to fight to the end brutally and vigorously deride McCain and Palin for their stupidity.
Vote McCain: you get a man with “not up on economics” during an ECONOMIC crisis. Hired Phil Gramm, who by the way, is behind the banking problems. And his wife too.
Rant complete.
A depression or a trigger finger which entices someone to trigger us back and oops there goes Montana.
We are a plutocracy, Chomsky was right, having said that the only hope I see, small as it is, is like you said not that he is change but that electing him will allow us to make the changes we need.
That crazy dude from Alaska was first my choice.
WSJ is really getting on her, usually a conservative leaning journal that should make some take notice.
I’ve read some of the WSJ stuff.
Chomsky is also crazy, but he’s close on the plutocracy thing.
I love him though.
Nice. Very nice. But you already know how I feel about this subject.
As for the banning of the books, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Palin was leaning on the librarian, bullying her perhaps, but that no list of books was ever presented. There are several lists circulating on the web, but those look like the kitchen sink of lists with every book someone has ever attempted to ban being on it. The lists even include the Harry Potter series – all of which were written AFTER Palin was pestering the librarian.
yea I have seen that. I am really only concerned righ tow that they aren’t letting her talk to real journalist. Gibson…lol
The McCain campaign has virtually shut down much of the freedom of access of their press corp as well, but that was even before the convention. Journalists have just gone along with it……scary.
In my opinion, Sarah’s choice is going to be the biggest test for women in the U.S. politics history.
Few are already riding the Palin bandwagon, and when asked about her policy stance, they pause like a “guilty baby”. Amazing how would overlook so much and gender can make all the difference. Only in America.
We will see how women would handle this. Would they be taken for a fool? If they do, it will be the biggest trick John McCain would have pulled on women.
On the country but then again I am not objective on any level about this. These folks scare me.
I’m inclined to agree with you here, but then again? Back when he was down by 20% in the polls during the primary, I was shouting at my TV as he was interviewed about his calm, seemingly nonchalant approach to the race, and he simply said that he had a plan.
Let’s see what post-RNC-bounce polls have to say now that the truth about the runner-up Miss Alaska has come out.
I’m certain it wasn’t his plan either. LOL
Unfortunately this election is no longer about Obama and McCain but it’s the Sarah Palin Show. Doesn’t matter about which books in particular; the point is she wanted to censor this is the USA and no public library or public school has the right to tell a kid what she can or can’t read. Surprisingly Harry Potter has been on the top of the list for awhile now
Unless the media and the people choose to make it about the issues it is going to stay that way I’m afraid.
So, I move to Tasmania will you come visit.
Sorry I missed this one.
Demopublicans – yup.