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Politics, Stupid by jared Add comments

I want to warn everybody that this post is a sort of random, stream of thought rant…  With that out of the way, here goes.

I’m sitting here watching Rudy Giuliani talk at the RNC as I type.  What it makes me realize is that I can’t stand the Republican party whatsoever these days.  Scott mentioned below that we’re raised to hate the opposing party, and I think that’s true to an extent.  But it’s the Republican’s hypocritical divisiveness that makes me dislike them.  Most of his speech has been bashing Obama and his “lack of experience”, yet he’s going to be followed by Sarah Palin who has about 20 months experience as the governor of Alaska.

He’s talking about how Obama wants to expand the government, but forgets to mention that his party created the Department of Homeland Security, his party created the national ID, his party is for warrantless wiretaps.  More government, more government, more government.

Giuliani talked a bit about how McCain wants to lower taxes to stimulate the economy.  He’s somehow forgotten how well that went when Bush did it.  The economy is doing pitifully, and the national debt is the worst it’s ever been.

Oh, now he’s talking about the “executive experience” that Sarah Palin has; she’s got more than the democratic ticket combined.  Yeah, because the mayor of a town of 5000 really has to make some tough decisions.  Fuck, the president of most universities deals with more people.  Oh yeah, then there was her 20 months as governor of Alaska.  The entire state has a population of like 600,000.  Woohoo!  Yeah!  Sorry, that’s not very impressive when I live 15 miles from Seattle, which has a larger urban population all by itself.  I don’t consider the mayor of Seattle as a viable candidate for president.  I doubt he does, either.  Yet McCain’s focus thusfar has been how “unqualified” Obama is.

There’s always the fact that Obama is a “flip-flopper”.  What’s an example?  He said he’d accept public financing, then he changed his mind.  Right.  My guess is that when McCain got married, he made a promise to be faithful to his wife.  Then he cheated on her.  Talk about “flip-flopping”.  Talk about family values…

Now we get to listen to Sarah Palin.  She points out that Obama can give a whole speech about the war, but not mention the word victory.  Oh, I’m sorry you naive moron..  We haven’t achieved victory there.  Would you rather him lie to you, like Bush did?  You remember the “Mission Accomplished” sign?  That was a few years ago.  Then, only a year ago, we sent 30,000 new troops there.  Oh yeah, mission accomplished indeed.  It doesn’t sound like a victory to me.

I could go on and on, but it just depresses me that people can actually stand this shit.

2 Responses to “More Politics”

  1. kyle Says:

    I wonder if the McCain camp had access to Guliani’s speech beforehand. I hope not. I had absolutely no opinion of the man before he got on stage, and now I can’t stand to even type his name. For someone who has been on the talk show circuits the past 2 days crying about an unfair media attack on Governor Palin, for a campaign whose stance has been, “the other guy’s an elitist,” Guliani’s speech did nothing but prove him and his party hypocritical. It wasn’t that he attacked Obama and Biden; that was to be expected. It was that he mocked Obama, made fun of him, laughed, sneered, and snickered like this was some kind of Comedy Central “Roast.” Republicans should feel ashamed.

    I got what I expected out of Palin’s appearance; McCain hired her some damn good speech writers (which reminds me, Obama writes his own speeches). But I don’t know if she appealed to any new voters. Democratic women are smart enough to see through this “more experience than Obama/Biden combined” crap. I don’t think she draws in any new male voters. She doesn’t affect minorities or college educated folk. She was brought in to make sure that the people who SHOULD be voting for McCain WILL be voting for McCain. And since he’s already down 6 to 8 points in most polls, and the electoral college map is looking awfully red, that’s just not going to be enough.

  2. kyle Says:

    btw, http://mudlfats.wordpress.com is a blog by a smart Alaskan that has been following the Palin thing from the beginning. It’s a great read.

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