I’m afraid. For myself. For my family. For my friends. For this country. For the world. I’m in shell shock that so many millions have embraced a small town, small city, small populated state representative as a messiah. She will save us … and it doesn’t matter that we will revert in personal and constitutional rights and go retro in the process. I mean, Caribou Barbie looks damn good.
I had an email from a woman who owns pit bulls… she thought I was right on in my commentary about Ms. Palin, but not about pit bulls. As I think about it, I owe her an apology. Sarah Palin isn’t a Pit Bull, she’s not good enough … she’s a snake and a scorpion. Scorpions stay pretty much out of the way, unless you stir them up a bit and their tail comes up to strike; snakes slither along and will strike quickly, sometimes with warning, sometimes not. After all, a pleasant smile, good teeth, a nice body can go a long way.
John McCain looks like he’s on double doses of Viagra–what a spunky guy he’s become since the GOP convention. I just hope Ms. Cindy can keep him in line. Isn’t it a fun sight… John and his girls–something for the older voters and something for the younger. Why, John McCain has outRoved Rove with his gameplan as he resurrected himself and the grand old party…. a party that needs to morph and come into the 21st century.
I listened closely to Bob Woodward talk about his new book, The War Within, last night on Larry King Live. I know, I know … I knew that George W. Bush was an incompetent; I learned that from contacts I had in Texas before the first election. I’ve read many of the previous books over the past few years that verfied that … but here we go again. Actual taped conversations with one of the most incompetent, indecisive men of our time to have stepped into a leadership role and was able to bluff his way through it. And people still think he’s grand. What in the hell is wrong with them?
And millions are willing to go along with the mess of the last 8 years plus. Forgive it; turn a back to it. Millions are willing to assume a guy who is a war hero also means that he is a great leader, no matter what the age. And millions who think a fresh name/voice is ideal to run an operation that is huge with little experience. What in the hell is wrong with them?
Would you let a doctor, because he has an MD, operate on your brain? I would hope not, unless he’s a brain surgeon and a great one; would you let a person captain a mega-cruise ship because they happen to be good with their dingy on the weekend?; would you leave someone with your kids for a month because they like kids and seem nice? What are people Thinking? What are people Drinking? What drugs are people Taking?
2008 may end up being the Year of the Stupid Factor.
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September 10, 2008 at 1:48 am |
I agree with you. My wife and I have thought about learning french just in case we need to move up north.
I use to have a lot of republican friends. They were good people. Then after Bush became president they became mean people, saying things like we need to round up liberals and send them to gitmo or even beter just shoot them. If you were against the war like I was they called me a terrorist supporter or a traitor to my country, and they knew I had 2 honorable discharges.
They are no longer my friends, and the thing is, I no longer have to keep track of things I owned because no one is borrowing them anymore.
I’m doing everything I can to convert moderate republicans who dislike their party to vote for Obama, it isn’t easy fighting against the right wing press.
September 15, 2008 at 8:22 pm |
Judith..
Thank you again for being a social conscience to all of us.
I am simply perplexed… as even though we take pride in America being the best country in the world.. the following facts baffle me..
1. How can we as a country what happens to the body of a woman (refering to abortion) by a senate where 90% + are men?
2. How can we as a group get over-awed by a woman who is the mayor of a community that is slightly larger than Piney Creek.. especially as she is as inexperienced and as anti-American (in my humble opinion) as it gets.
3. How can only 25% of the population care to vote? (In Australia it is illegal not to vote and in India 60%+ vote)
Now solutions…
1. Please research the candidates at all level for yourself and DO NOT vote just on a party ticket.
2. Please vote. It is an honor and freedom nearly 1/2 the world does not.
3. Please do not complain after the elections about who won. Instead try to influence now and after the election let us unify under whoever wins.
Arjun Sen
September 15, 2008 at 10:12 pm |
Amen Arjun. This is a case where what I feel that I’ve written is common sense… yet common sense is just too uncommon. The phenom that has become Sarah Palin mirrors the devotees of American Idol… doesn’t matter if there are talented or not .. devotees like they way she looks… bah!