Saturday, August 30, 2008
Let's have the facts...Obama/McCain
Okay, I am opening the forum to my readers. It seems that everytime I listen to the candidates it becomes more of a jumbled mess. I do have someone in mind but I don't want to be a factor on what you write...so let me hear it. I want to know 2 or 3 things that each person is standing for...and that you BELIEVE they will be ABLE to follow through on.
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For Obama:
1. Healthcare insurance. His plan will make it more affordable for more people. I think this one is incredibly important. We're both employed and probably have great insurance compared to a lot of people, and my insurance still sucks.
2. International relations. I think Obama will help heal America's relationships with the rest of the world, which is going to be more and more important because we need allies in order to deal with new developments in foreign relations, including:
(a) Russia invading Georgia and our not being able to do shizzle about it, even though we're supposedly their strongest ally. Russia has been positioning itself to take control over oil pipelines going through Russia and Asia (google articles on British Petroleum getting booted out of Russia) and you wouldn't know crap about it from the way the Bush administration has acted.
(b) Afghanistan. Hello? Remember them? Where Osama is hiding? Where the democratic govt is failing? We can't sustain our troop levels there by ourselves bc of Iraq. We need a coalition.
(c) Pakistan -- again - Bueller? Now that Musharraf is out of power, we have an out-of-control govt with a strong anti-American contingent. Oh yeah, and they have nuclear weapons. Again, we need some cooperation in dealing here.
3. Obama is smarter than McCain and is more in touch with working people. I know these are not specific facts like you asked for, but I think they are very important factors. I think its pretty clear that Obama is a lot smarter than McCain, based not only their histories, but on the way they are running their campaigns. Also, in general, Obama's policies are geared more towards protecting the working class, while McCain's are geared more toward protecting industry and rich people.
That's my two cents.
I gotta say, the selection of Governor Palin is the nail-in-the-coffin for me as far as McCain. (Not that I was really on the fence before, but this is sort of the no-turning-back point in the road.)
This morning, Joe Lieberman (senator from Ct) told MSNBC that all last week, McCain was fighting with his own campaign people and other Republican party leaders, bc McCain wanted to pick Lieberman. The party didn't want him because he used to be a Democrat, he's Jewish and he doesn't jibe with the conservative wing of the party (those are my reasons, not Leiberman's).
So in the 11th hour, McCain gave in to his dissenters and, after a 15-minute phone conversation, invited Palin to be his VP. This shows a terrible lack of leadership on McCain's part. He can't stand up to his own campaign manager or his party. It also was a bad choice.
Palin is a bad choice because she doesn't have the experience to be president. The fact that her main experience is being mayor of a tiny podunk town bothers me. Two years as governor of Alaska is not much more to go on. (before the US Senate, Obama was a leading state legislator for 8 years in one of the toughest political communities in the country, and taught constitutional law at U. Chicago, one of the top 10 law schools in the country.) Not to mention all her positions on the issues, which I think are dead wrong. The woman still thinks global warming doesn't exist, and she wants to teach creationism in public schools.
I don't think her 17-year old being pregnant is relevant. But what is relevant is this: she hid it. When she accepted the VP nomination, her daughter was standing behind her, wearing dark colors, and HOLDING PALIN'S BABY to cover her own pregnant belly!!!!!!! That is so disingenuous. It makes me shake my head. If I had a pregnant teen-ager, who is going through the craziest, toughest time in her life, I wouldn't put her in the national spotlight for people to debate. I just wouldn't do it. I think that was really poor judgment on Palin's part.
And now I will stop writing about politics on your blog.
Thank you marie, I am going to share with Scott. We have been trying to understand what both sides offer and are having a hard time with that.
Ugh, I just learned more about McCain and Palin that makes me even unhappier:
1. McCain voted giving money to after-school programs, for grants. I guess he thinks everyone can afford to go to private school.
2. McCain and Palin want to eliminate access to family planning education (that worked well for her kid, huh?)
3. McCain and Palin want to eliminate domestic partner benefits
4. Palin wants to teach creationism in school.
5. She also thinks global warming doesn't exist.
6. She is against the right to an abortion if you are raped or a victim of incest.
Ugh. The facts speak for themselves.
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