Election Day 2008 Issues
Election 2008
OK. Here we go. Today is the day. Come on Barack… Lets get this done. And PLEASE, don’t disappoint. I’m keeping my eye on this Middle-Class America status. Which is it? 250k, 180k, 200k? I will admit that I have been a bit biased in my overview of candidates. Who’s not, though? At least I can admit it, right? Well, to be frank, most of what Barack Obama has been stating has been consistent and unfaltering. He is certainly a representative of consistency. Quite unlike McCain who has changed strategy, approach, pitch and message. McCain does NOT represent the majority of the country or what the majority of the country wants. He represents much of the same as G. Bush. (Does no one feel that impeachment/war crimes trial in order for the famed Bush? I sure as hell do. For if the same scenario occurred in another country, our government/president would certain lead a charge to do just that.) Obama, on the other hand, seems to be on the same page as the majority of the population here. That majority being “middle class.” He appears to have a deep and personal understanding of what it means (and is) to be a struggling, dedicated American. Black or otherwise. Something that John McCain and his $300k outfit per event wife CERTAINLY do not have even the remotest understanding of.
With that said, the definition of middle class, as defined by the Obama Campaign, has changed several times over the course of the campaign. I don’t know if the purpose is proactively dynamic sort of evolutionary), simply an active response top a very organic election. Does the government currently define middle class? And regardless of the answer to any of these, why such a wide range of numbers… from $100k to $250k? Just last night I saw a new Obama ad and it clearly outlined the Dems definition as anyone making less than $200k per year. If that holds true, I would take that as an acceptable figure. And a reasonable one, at that. If that’s the magic number, please stay with it and please make the policies work.
We (I) are holding you to your words.
10.07.08
Leave it to a Racist Maverick and his Lipstick Pitbull
OK, so the latest non-sense to come from the Palin/McCain camp is that Senator Obama has ties to domestic terrorism via his acknowledged prior acquaintance ” with terrorists who targeted our own country”. She is speaking of Obama and…
…his brief political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a child at the time of the bombings.
She (Palin) referred to an article in Saturday’s New York Times about Obama’s relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that “the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called ’somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.’” CNN
Ok, you made me do it. I’m going to recall a previous statement, or two, that I made about McCain and his recent (even current) relationship(s) with white supremacists and other unsavory people in this country. These are claims that McCain doesn’t even deny. He just chuckles and redirects the question/answer session to something else. (sound familiar?) Looks to me like you are scared of the black man, John and Sarah. No wonder you can’t even focus on your campaign. The 8pt lead that Mr (President) Obama just took from you this week has got to be killing you. I suppose then you would expect a person of color to say things like…lock up your wife cuz she’s one sexy B. (Not really… your wife is NOT all that she thinks she is make-up and apathy down look so good on too many women). I mean, you know that’s all us black men are into anyway, right? We’re going to slang crack, beat up prostitutes, and drink beer and smoke newports and weed till we choke! associate with unsavory individuals and speak of unsavory things. I mean, that’s what “black folk” do, right? Alright then answer me this. If you find that your competition has ever visited Russia, or China, or North Korea, on his personal time to take a vacation, are you going to demand that he admit to some (maybe your) accusation that he is somehow linked to communism? I think McCain/Palin is in fear of letting down the racist forefathers WHEN he loses this presidential race.
For the record, Bill Ayers is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the honor of Distinguished Professor. I don’t support any of his tretchorous past. I do, however, support the notion, the truth that people can and do change. Who they were may certainly not be who they are. To be fair, the same could be said about McCain and Palin. When I look deeply at them, I just don’t see it, though. To me they represent all that is wrong with this country. Selfish, self-serving, unreliable, “above the law”, and not at aall right for this country. not even the states that the currently represent. After there presentations over the last few months, they should not only lose this presidential race, they should lose their current state/federal seats.
I know this doesn’t really tear into Palin so much. I’m getting there. In a post in the near future….
Do the research. Learn the truth. Call out the liars!
09.26.08
The Photo-Op Flop!
Wow. When you are pandering to become the next president of the U.S. of A. I guess “anything goes”. Mr McCain has lost some more of that all important gray matter this week and appears to have taken on a “fuck it” mentality.
Hey guys, since the timing of this financial fiasco is going to plague my attempts to dupe the american people into voting for me, lets dupe the American people into voting for me! You see, we’re going to “stop” my campaign for a while.. no, no.. it’s just gonna be a few days at most. Then Cindy and I are going to take a quick vacation. It’s just a simple coincidence that we’ll be vacationing in DC. And since I’ll be there anyway, I’m not coming back until our government agrees to my demands! Then I’ll return to the campaign that I “postponed”, the people will worship me and I will be their omnipotent leader!!! …oh shit.. gotta go debate!
A week-long photo-op at the time, of a national tragedy (following several others of sorts). Political theater on an inappropriate stage. And it’s going to flop.
Politician…the new four-letter word.
Meanwhile, another bank fails and the change in my pocket will afford me less and less. I say to all who will listen. Take your money and get a safe… or some solid cardboard shoe box… and put your money there. If it is going ot keep any value at all, it certainly will have more in your hand rather than in “the bank”. If people in this country were smart, they’d start taking on a survivalist mentality. At least to some degree. If the collective whole of this country acted like we gave a damn, something close to a miracle could happen. But instead, we are going to (you are going to.. I’m a “survivalists for dummies student” as we speak) drive the excessive amounts to get nowhere fast and then display intolerance at the price and the fat cats pockets unending swell. Who is more to blame? People like the incompetant Mr McCain, or us?
07.16.08
From the Supporter of White Supremists
McCain…Says the worst educational problems often in schools in black communities…
CINCINNATI – John McCain is telling the NAACP he will expand education opportunities for children in failing schools…
“If I am elected president, school choice for all who want it, an expansion of opportunity scholarships and alternative certification for teachers will all be part of a serious agenda of education reform,” McCain said in the excerpts.
“After decades of hearing the same big promises from the public education establishment, and seeing the same poor results, it is surely time to shake off old ways and to demand new reforms,” he said. “That isn’t just my opinion. It is the conviction of parents in poor neighborhoods across this nation who want better lives for their children.”
Really? Maybe we should take a look back at a previous post. Remember all the quotes coming from McCain’s mouth with no retractions, all the white supremacist that he supports. It wouldn’t surprise me if, since the NAACP includes the outdated term “Colored”, Mr McCain starts referring to African Americans as “colored people”. And to be clear, through most of his speech to the NAACP, he refers more to “poor children” and “poor communities”… John, You’re talking to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored [Black] People)! Does is hurt your mouth, or your brain to say “black”? Because the organization your are (were) speaking to represents BLACK people, poor or otherwise. Bush has already failed the minority community with his so-called “No Child Left Behind” program. It appears obvious that your plan is the same.
Then there’s the “Merritt Pay” program. What? Are you sick? So, if the student isn’t being driven at home to learn correctly, you are going to dock the teacher. I suppose you are all for an increase in Baseball players’ salaries, too. How about a broad reform of how (as well as how MUCH) teachers are paid. Never that, though. You are more for increasing your own pay and the income of the already too wastefully rich, than for making sure the people who teach our children are properly compensated. Good job, jackass. We WILL hold you to your words, should we be unfortunate enough to be stuck with you (george w bush, III) as our next president. But really many of us are just hoping (imagine that) that Obama comes out ahead.
And for those out there who may contend that I am one-sided, please no that I am on the prowl for mixed messages from Obama. I am holding on to faith that he will continue to keep it real, but be asured that I am researching and WIL call him out on blatant flip-flopping, and anything spoken that seems to benefit the rich.
07.03.08
More on the Attempted Start of Bush’s 3rd Term
Many non-republicans in this country have had a sneaky suspicion that McCain’s bid for the presidency really equates to bush’s “third term”. McCain, being the politician that he is, feverishly denies that point at every turn. Really? Funny, because this is what is going on right now…
By Adam Nagourney
updated 11:00 p.m. CT, Wed., July. 2, 2008WASHINGTON – Senator John McCain ’s presidential campaign has gone through its second shake-up in a year. Responding to Republican concerns that his candidacy was faltering, Mr. McCain put a veteran of President Bush’s 2004 campaign in charge of day-to-day operations, and stepped away from a plan to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, Mr. McCain’s aides said Wednesday.
Great. Look John, we’ve had enough. Enough of bullying this country to serve the ideals of one man. Enough being lied to and manipulated. Enough being dragged, kicking and screaming, through the muck you call leadership. Out with the “old”, and in with the new, fresh, and more thoroughly inclusive. The thinking of old, white, rich men as leadership for a country is over. This country is full of bright, young, intelligent, interactive people who will not just sit on the sideline while a handful of greedy control freaks ruin this land. This time around, it’s going to be more than a simple changing of the guard. This time around, we will shift our perception and take this country back. Hey john, maybe you can snatch up the competition and threaten them into giving you the seat. Seems like that’s what the republican party is all about. If you’re not legally voted in, just forcefully take it. Come on, you’re good buddy george b did it, why can’t you? (And in case anyone missed it, I will NEVER put goerge bush’s name in caps. He doen’t represent me, nor anyone I know. He is not a fair representation of this nation… only of his own warped, twisted, greedy thinking.)
