—> Because his cabinet members are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson, William Ayers, Tony Rezco, 50 Cent, David Letterman, Snoop Dogg, Tyrone J. Watermelon III, Ayatollah Homani, Jeremiah Wright, the entire Clinton administration including their family and pets, Eminem, Momar Quadafi, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Osama Bin Laden, Sadaam Hussein, Karim Alduljibar, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Keith Olbermann, Magic Johnson, the Hamas, Mohamed Atta, Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, Khalid Mohammad Hussein Karim Almihdhar and Kobe Bryant.
—> Because he doesn’t wear the American flag pin.
—> Because he doesn’t put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.
—> Because he went to flight school but didn’t bother to learn how to land the plane.
—> Because he didn’t fight in a war like Bush, Cheney and Palin did.
—> Because he has low testosterone levels.
—> Because he’s an Arab Muslim born in Kenya.
—> Because Obama and Osama are the same person except that Obama doesn’t have a beard (due to low testosterone levels).
—> Because Obama hates America.
—> Because his mom’s not his real mom.
—> Because he doesn’t work out.
—> Because he goes to Starbucks.
—> Because he supports NAMBLA, kiddie porn, bestiality, and sex under the age of 5.
—> Because he has a low sperm count.
—> Because he’s too fat (it’s the munchies from all the Mary Jane!)
—> Because he hasn’t changed anything since he’s become president.
—> Because he has man boobs.
—> Because he thinks he’s sum celebrity messiah or sumfn’.
—> Because he a communist Gestapo agent.
—> Because he doesn’t hunt.
—> Because he hunts babies and eats them afterwards.
—> Because he doesn’t have a job and is living off welfare.
—> Because he hasn’t changed anything.
—> Because he uses a Macintosh.
—> Because he doesn’t shave his pubic hair.
—> Because those kids aren’t really his.
—> Because his elected cabinet members are experienced.
If I have heard this once, I’ve heard it 4585003698 times, “God forbid we should say anything negative about your Messiah”.
My Messiah? Yeeesh. I don’t even give my hubby that much credit!
I don’t really care where this little “Messiah sound-bite” came from, but does anyone else agree that the word “Messiah” being connected to Obama has been spun to its death, overused, and very irrational as at least the liberals that I associate with or read on the internet never use it nor do most liberals have any kind of perverted obsession with Obama and have any more higher expectations of him as the Right had for Bush. I honestly don’t understand the “logic” of the Right to continue to spin and twist that word around. Never mind the uber-craze and the hype over Palin. If it’s a woman and from the Right, it’s okay to have a perverted obsession. But if the candidate is on the Left, we’re not allowed to have hope, says the Right.
YOU DAMNED DRAMA QUEENS!
I am sure that everyone reading this that voted for Obama is sick and tired of hearing the same overused talking points from the far “righteous” Right, no?
They are really, really angry. Here are some excerpts from Sean Anna:
Well, Obama won. Driven insane by fears of an economic apocalypse, the American people chose to elect as POTUS a far-left loon whose only “achievement” is being Black, rather than a hero whose patriotism is above reproach. DISGUSTED doesn’t begin to describe how I feel. Imagining the Messiah’s (sic) assasination was the only way I could get through the day Wednesday. And I do hope he gets (sic) assasinated. On live tv. Like Oswald. Then I’ll know God is smiling on America. Seriously.
So, lemme guess… McCain is a hero like Bush? Isn’t funny how they excuse Bush? I am still waiting for his military records… Hmmm….. See, in Sean Anna’s world, God doesn’t love all of his people. Just a select few. You know… the Radical Republican Christian Fundamentalists. That’s it. Anybody else is going to hell like me. Well, at least Hell will contain the majority of us. We’ll make the best out of it.
If anyone remembers when Hillary Clinton was on the campaign trail, you’ll also remember the Radical Right predicting that the left would vote for Hillary JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN. Does anyone remember that? Obama won. And now they say 66,882,230 Libs voted for Obama JUST BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK. Hmmm…. Well, does this mean that 58,343,671 Rednecked Americans voted for McPalin just because Palin’s a female or because they were voting *AGAINST* black skin-color?
Anyway Sean Anna’s temper tantrum probably explains all of this. People like her, while in the minority, are OUT THERE.
Mind you, this is coming from a self-proclaimed Christian who is staunchly pro-life. After having questioned her about her statements (which are by far the most radical I’ve seen yet in the blogosphere), she responded with more venom:
And VM, I like you but please stop with the phoney outrage. Your side of the political aisle dissed and demonized Bush and everyone connected with him. Progressives rejoiced when people like Tony Snow became ill with deadly diseases.
But naturally, if you disagree with the far Right, you are automatically going to get the same canned responses and talking points from them no matter how far or not far to the Left you are. They are like parrots. They don’t think about the situation or whom they are talking to because they are too lazy, angry, and pea-brained to respond with anything but a one-size-fits-all statement that reduces ALL Obama supporters to the farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Left having some kind of perverted obsession with a president-elect.
This is Sean Anna’s Happy Thanksgiving Day message, by the way:
Happy Thanksgiving to my blogging buddies and the 48% of Americans who voted for McCain! The rest of you can go to hell, unless you’re related to me by blood, law, or love.
I’m a liberal atheist. Aren’t I going to hell, anyway?
Seriously. What can you expect from one that only listens to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Micheal Medved, and Ann Coulter and calls these talking-heads “fair and balanced” or actually “newsworthy”. One who refuses to listen to alternative views. One who refuses to learn that there are two sides to every story. One who refuses to try and understand why her party lost to the Democrats and why her Republicans lost to the Democrats even back in 2006! Did that have to do with skin-color then too?
THERE IS A VERY GOOD REASON THE DEMS ARE TAKING OVER!
For the record, I listen to Republican talk radio to the tune of Mike Gallagher, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Medved, and Jim Bohannan at night if I happen to be awake at the time. I was really surprised to hear the other night that Michael Medved accepted, for the first time, that Obama is our president-elect and to at least give him a try. He wishes Obama the best, he said. He showed Obama some respect for the very first time.
Anyway… Sean Anna continues,
Progressives called Bush a terrorist, war criminal, and another Hitler. So please, don’t pretend like you’re shocked and/or offended by my hardcore language against your messiah. I don’t see any reason why I should give Barak Osama* any more respect than you progressives gave to Bush.
Hmmm…. So, how do the actions of the lunatic fringe reflect on me, exactly? See, we liberals expect the neocons to respect any and all presidents. Why? Because YOU people on the Far Right (your words – not mine) were the ones that went on and on and on ad nauseam saying that “dissent was un-American”. “We must all respect our president unconditionally.” These are the words of the far Right and from Sean Anna herself. Not mine. For eight years, I kept hearing that any kind of dissent even the most innocuous was unpatriotic, un-American, treasonous, and that I should STFU because our men fought for the right for me to dissent bla bla bla….. Now, the radicals have conveniently changed the definition of dissent to mean “jealousy and fear of Sarah Palin”. Doncha love how they continue to re-write the Webster Dictionary when American politics change? *wink* *wink*
Is it not interesting that now the Far Righteous Right have done a complete 180?
All their values and rhetoric just went right out the window – the baby and the water included. Like I said before on my blog, it’s only OK if you guys, do it, right?
See, the Far Righteous Right places standards for the rest of the world to live by – yes, even beyond our borders. However, they compose a different and more convenient list of standards for themselves to live by under the name of God-fearing Christianity & holier-than-thou-self-righteousness-finger-wagging-wildly-rhetoric. Maybe they are THAT close to God that they ARE God? Who knows? They just do whatever they want, and say whatever they want not the least bit concerned the elitist self-serving hypocritical fools they are making out of themselves and how they continue to tarnish America’s reputation. Furthermore, they are the poster children of being able to dish it out, but not take it back. They are weak, cowardly, always making excuses for themselves, and act like spoiled baby brats when life doesn’t go their way unlike the REAL old-fashioned classy Conservatives.
So, they (the radicals) will stoop to the most childish blows in an attempt to silence dissent. If you are a hardcore reader of blogs, you’ll notice that right-wing blogs have very little opposition in their comment section. Am I the only one who notices this? However, in left-wing blogs, I find other conservatives responding in opposition. It’s just a little thing I noticed over the last few months that I find quite telling. In those conservative blogs that I respond to with my dissent, I am 99% of the time, the only dissenter there. Just interesting, is all. If anyone has any heads up as to why, I’d be interested.
But I am sure some dingbat radical conservative will come here and say that Obama is trying to silence dissent too. Here’s a clue: Obama isn’t even FOR the “Fairness Doctrine”!!!! And even if he was, how the hell do counter-opinions equate to “silencing dissent”? See people, this is why the radicals call even “Fox News” part of the “Liberal Media”. It’s part of the Liberal media only because counter opinions like Alan Colmes is allowed. Anything is “Liberal” if both sides of a story can be taught. That’s pretty damn depressing if you ask me.
The Red Redneck Radicals hate “the other America” and will stop at nothing to destroy it. They are the minority now, and simply cannot handle it. Their poor children are probably taking the brunt of it, and more cases to the Child Protective Services will be reported if Obama doesn’t get assassinated soon enough. Little do they realize that it is the extremist attitudes of the likes of Sean Anna up above is what actually got Obama elected. She cries that Obama is a “far left loon terrorist” but doesn’t see herself – on the far extreme Right. She didn’t see that with Palin either.
This just reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“We don’t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are.” – Anais Nin
Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost–And How It Can Find Its Way Back by Mickey Edwards
From Publishers Weekly
This book is a cri de coeur by former Republican congressman Edwards, a veteran conservative founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation who once ranked as the national chairman of the American Conservative Union. Edwards believes that conservatism has abandoned the ideas of limited government that once inspired it. This has been, he argues, the paradoxical price of conservative electoral success, and the process of winning and retaining this power has brought its own temptations. Taking Washington required coalition forming with neoconservatives, the religious right and former supporters of George Wallace who all owed little to the Goldwater-style conservatism in which the thing being ‘conserved’ was the liberal revolution embodied in the Constitution. According to Edwards, these other views have intensified as the Bush administration presides over an evolving security state, and the movement Edwards once held sacrosanct is now unrecognizable.
Right-wing radicals don’t have the balls to stand up and admit that Bush turned this country over on to its belly as they have forgotten what Conservatism is. Traditional conservatives have been railing against Bush for the longest time. I listen to Republican talk radio. I know.
Ever wonder how Bush got to the lowest recorded approval rating (23%) in history?
You can listen to Mickey Edwards speak more about his book here in audio format.
Some notable comments about Bush’s presidency by traditional conservatives here.
I can’t help thinking this is an exact replay of what John Winston Howard did to the conservative party in Australia. He dragged it so far away from the middle that the normal run of the mill voter just got disgusted and voted with their feet. Thank you GW for smashing the Republican Party to pieces. I only hope what rises in its place can serve the people of the U.S. the way decent republican leaders have done all the while until you loped onto the political scene.
Why Os- Obama REALLY got elected is that much of America learned that when you put some guy in the white house who blows smoke up the entire countries backside about how he’s a conservative and stands for conservative values – blah blah blah – who THEN hands us the most dangerous liberal policies we’ve seen in YEARS; he’s nearly ruined us economically, he’s started a war with a dangerous part of the world and allowed the most idiotic war policies – the list gets too long…
… Americans are thinking that the most liberal nitwit in govt. who probably isn’t even QUALIFIED to BE the president may ACTUALLY give us 4 to 8 years of real CONSERVATIVE AND COMMON SENSE policy !!!
Our system of govt. is so incredibly effed up and corrupt right now what other choice do we HAVE ?
“We the people” have been scoffed at and insulted by our corrupt judicial branch which will continue to be allowed to do the job of the legislative branch. Because “we the sheeple” and the other two branches of govt. allow it.
So this is where we’re at. We expect our elected politicians to do the exact opposite of what they tell us. They’ve become misbehaved teenagers. When their mouth is moving they’re lying.
There is opportunity here Robert, the truth is Republicans stopped acting like conservatives and we were punished for it last night. If the Republican minority can get back to conservative basics, we can retake congress in 2010 and be on our way to victory in 2012. This is a time for rebuilding and action, not pessimism. Liberals allow pessimism into their movement, it has no place in Reagan conservatism.
It has been interesting to watch the conservatives, though, because I really, really DID think it was the Left that was the party of whining and pessimism. Now, I see that the Republicans are just as human – in other words – cry babies when things don’t go their way.
For the past eight years Republicans in Washington have disappointed those of us in the grassroots, they have expanded government and increased spending by irresponsible amounts, and now are paying the price for it. Last nights defeat was retribution, with power comes responsibility and those in Washington did not exercise their power well. So the American people took a gamble on something new and tossed out many in our party.
You know, people… there is A REASON why the Democrats took over congress back in 2006. Have you ever evaluated your own party and wondered why?
I never ever thought I would agree with a conservative republican, but after reading this book, I am in full agreement with Mickey Edwards. Sean Hannity and the other trash on talk radio have perverted the word ‘patriot’ but Edwards has brought its true meaning back to us. I see little chance in the near future of correcting the damage wrought on this USA by the W administration, Newt Gingrich, and the neocons; but, if we follow Mickey’s advice, we will eventually get the country we and the world needs.
John, another reviewer, reminds us that Republicans are supposed to be the party responsible for protecting our freedoms but seem to nowadays be the party that is stripping them away.
From JMK as a response to the far Right blaming Obama’s win on “libtards”:
Here’s the thing, it really WASN’T the far-Left “libtards” who voted Obama in!
In fact, our electorate remains about 33% self-proclaimed Conservatives, about 17% self-proclaimed Liberal and appx 50% “Moderate,” or unaffliated.
That merely shows that a large majority of Americans have little interest in or affinity for the political system.
That’s why our very Liberal MSM is such a help to Democrats!
But this time around, it wasn’t even THAT.
Bottomline, Bush has NOT governed as a Conservative his second term. In fact, he’s cooperated about as well with the Pelosi-Reid Congress as Bill Clinton had with the Gingrich Congress.
Unfortunately, (1) Clinton’s cooperation and capitulation to Gingrich resulted in the best economic period since the 1950s, most of it based on the FIRST federal budget cuts since prior to WW II….while (2) Bush’s cooperation with Pelosi-Reid coincided with one of the greatest economic disasters of our time, a disaster born of Democratic over-regulation (the turbo-charged CRA forcing banks to deliver tons of high-risk, subprime loans) and banking industry greed – tons of short-term cash was made off all the fees from those subprime (government-backed) mortgages!
Regardless, the President in office (BUSH) took credit, or in this case BLAME for that implosion.
THAT helped Obama a LOT.
McCain also helped Obama a LOT by running an incompetent campaign.
McCain was, to be kind, an embarrassment, from his huckster, “Well, my friends….” vaudevillian delivery, to his phoney appeal to Conservatives over the bailout – he didn’t even stand up for the Congressional Conservatives who merely wanted those monies earmarked for lending ALONE!
McCain’s ill-conceived bailout photo-op shit the bed and basically signalled that his campaign was not really serious about governance, let alone winning the election.
In short, blame Bush’s cooperating with Pelosi-Reid, blame McCain’s ineptitude, blame Moderate Republicans for consistently selling out Conservatism, BUT don’t blame the Liberals!
First off, there aren’t near enough of them to win anything and secondly, I can’t balme the vast majority of Moderates for voting Obama over McCain.
McCain’s campaign was a sad, pathetic joke….and a disgrace to Conservatives everywhere.
And lastly Ann Shaftel, another reviewer of Reclaiming Conservatism says,
America was founded on principles then considered liberal/revolutionary–governments bound by duty to the people, not the other way around, limited by the phrase “Congress shall make no law..,” a system of checks and balances to ensure that no one branch of government shall gain too much power over the others, strict separation of church and state, no interference in our private lives, the over-riding obligation of Due Process in all criminal proceedings. The Conservative movement of the 1960s was meant to “conserve” these Constitutional principles. I am a proud “liberal,” a member of the “loyal opposition” from the perspective of Conservatives like Mickey Edwards. RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM helped me to understand the true meaning and value of pre-Gingrich Conservatism. We stand for many of the same principles. This is not a book about governmental programs, what the government ought or ought not to do for its citizens. It is about protecting and returning to those principles on which our government was founded. Bravo!
This is true. If you look at traditional conservatism and traditional liberalism, there’s not too big of a difference.
Traditional conservatism is at least something that I can tolerate – not love – not believe in 100% – but tolerate. The last eight years of Bush wasn’t conservative or liberal. It was nonsense. It wasn’t America. And it is those whom are unconditionally faithful and blindly patriotic to Bush that I call the neocons, the radicals, the far right-wingnuts. These adjectives, however, do not describe those followers of TRUE Conservatism who have the best interests of our country at heart!
I think most of those who call themselves “conservatives” are really from the FAR Right. One particular thing that annoys me about Neo-Conservativism is this so called “family values” being forced down one’s throat.
Why do I need the government to tell me what a “family value is”?
Anyway, For those whom are true to Conservatism, you might want to take a look at this site. There is a reason why it exists.
I mean, there IS also a very good reason why McPalin used “CHANGE” as their campaign slogan too, right?
It’s because both conservatives AND liberals are sick and tired of the government telling us what to do, what to believe in, who to be, and how to live our lives. We all got tired of Uncle Sam spending money like a drunken sailor. And the neocons in office are no better than the Democrats who strip us from our freedoms as well. Just to make that clear.
This blogger’s intentions (from sorryeverbody.com) are genuine, thoughtful, and rather very touching. For some reason, however, he thought that by Obama having won the presidential race that Americanophobia would die?
Additionally, Aby the so called “internationalist liberal” reiterates the fact that she and her “crew” will continue to mercilessly bash the American people in her blog no matter who’s president. The self-proclaimed “tolerant internationalist” promises also to unveil even more of her self-loathing deep-seated hatred for Americans in future posts as in a series. Woo hoo. Her goal is to let her American audience know why they are hated and how the phenomenon of European tolerance Euro-bigotry is justified and has nothing to do with who is the POTUS. So, we’re all on the edge of our seats now, hey?
Why would things change post-election, anyway? I’ve been saying this in my blog for ages, but Americanophobia has N-O-T-H-I-N-G to do with the president of the United States and/or any human rights violations we’ve committed. NOTHING.
Barack Obama is on his Canadian honeymoon today, but tomorrow he is certain to become merely another target for those who reject America’s world view.
On April 29th, 2008 the article, “American Unpopularity Abroad: What It Really Means” was submitted online to prove to Americans that no matter what we do, Americanophobes will always be Americanophobes. William Moloney states, …
“The Democratic narrative goes like this: Get the troops out of Iraq and Barack or Hillary into the White House and American popularity abroad will soar. Group hugs will abound. Old allies will become new friends, and vie with one another to pony up more money and troops for all good causes. Arm in arm we’ll suppress the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, stand up to Russia and China, rally to the defense of Israel, and put an end to global warming…”
Right?
WRONG!
The linked article up above goes on to explain one of the many reason Americanophobes will continue hating and being as ignorant as a lobotomized duck.
With Obama, Spiegel and others will no longer be focusing attacks on the American executive (at least in the short-term) as was standard practice under Bush. Instead, as we have previously speculated, they will likely turn to attacking broader aspects of American society (the economic downturn is the current dominant theme) for all that is wrong in the United States and the world. Think World Scapegoat USA. Think pet peeves. Having to respect Obama just makes accomplishing what readers require a bit more demanding. Just slapping Bush and a desecrated US flag on the cover will no longer cut mustard after January 20…
But anti-Americanism did not begin with George W Bush and it wouldn’t end with Barack Obama in the White House The attacks of 9/11 were the ugliest and bloodiest ever manifestation of anti-Americanism. They may have happened when George W Bush was in the White House but they were planned when President Clinton was Commander-in-Chief. They were executed when Bush was still promising a humbler, less interventionist foreign policy. Although most of the world grieved with America in the weeks after 9/11, many of its critics rejoiced. Le Monde did publish the headline ‘We Are All Americans’ after 11 September 2001 but noted in the text below: “[T]he reality is perhaps also that of an America whose own cynicism has caught up with [it]”.[3] The US Ambassador to London was reduced to tears after a hostile BBC Television audience attempted to blame American foreign policy for the attacks on Washington and New York. Anti-Americanism was alive and kicking before the invasions of either Afghanistan and Iraq.
Just in case you missed it, Americanophobia began in the 19th century, folks. It’s here to stay. We have always been perceived as a bunch of typical, inbred, insular, nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, uncouth, vulgar, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, self-centered, and globalizing Neanderthal Americans.
Sarah Palin, despite having the lowest approval rating in recorded history among VP candidates, is now THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA. Despite Obama being elected (by a large majority) as president of the United States, Sarah Palin is stillTHE NEW FACE OF AMERICA. So, yeah. Our image is increasingly getting worse and will only continue to rise once all of them find out that Obama is leaning toward the center or is actually a Republican.
So, dear America, stop wasting your time trying to get on anyone’s “good side”. It’s fruitless as you’re dealing with a bunch of hateful xenophobes that mirror similar values to those American neocon extremists that are equally annoying. The Americanophobes don’t give a hoot how liberal or how far to the Left of Center you are. They don’t care how many stamps and pages your American passport contains. They hate YOU and are waiting for the next terrorist attack in the US so that they have another excuse to mindlessly parade around with burning flags, celebrate, and cheer in the streets.
And if you think that the Americanophobes are just an extremist group that only represent the minority in Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and South America, you are sorely mistaken.
Americanophobia and anti-Semitism need to exist. It’s a necessary evil for those who feel small. Americanophobes across the globe, enjoy defining America by her Extremists. Their media’s slant focuses on American’s extremists and all of it’s flaws. Americanophobes abroad believe in fabricated images of the supposed “typical American”. Some of us believe that the “ugly American image” helps other countries feel more patriotic about themselves to avoid facing their own shortcomings. But my friends,… this is what Americanophobia is all about: mindlessness, laziness, genetic defects, misplaced anger, scapegoatism, brainwashing, the need to belong, belief without question, inferiority complexes, lack of pride in one’s place in the world, and just plain old ignorance.
And lastly, if you’re an Americanophobe reading this, you have no right to whine about how Americans stereotype YOU when you do the same yourselves. Get off of your high horses and look in the mirror for a change!
Side Note:Oh gee, I just remembered that when Barack Obama gets assassinated, how all the Americanophobes will have a field day, and are going to *NOT* blame the assassin (especially if he gets the death penalty), but rather blame the rest of the innocent 300+ million for it. It will be about how all 300 million of us are racists and how we all conspired together to kill him. Can you really expect any more from one of the most vile extremist groups in the world?
Don’t be naive. These people are just as much our enemy as the Islamic Fundamentalists. We need to get out of NATO and the UN and screw the rest of the world. Americans are starting to get fed up.
“I am a conservative who spent one evening responding to posts on your blog. I mentioned then that I would support Obama if he won, even though I was supporting McCain’s campaign. I feel it was my duty to send my congratulations to our next president through you and your community, since I used your forum to enter into a spirited debate. I will honor my pledge to respect Obama as our American president. I certainly intend to exercise my first amendment rights to try to persuade him and others away from policies that I oppose, but I will be respectful of him and his office. I will also reprimand others who fail to show such respect.
I do not plan to return to this site, as I got so engaged in the vigorous debate that I lost track of time, and I missed saying prayers with my kids and tucking them in that night. We have added our new president to our prayer list. I assure you, we are not praying from a sense of self-interest. We only pray that he be granted the wisdom that is necessary to successfully execute his duties in a way that leads our country to greater peace and prosperity.
I believe it is un-American to wish ill upon anyone in order to gain some advantage. I want America to reach her greatest potential; therefore, I want Obama’s presidency to be the most successful in history — until the next president is elected, whichever party that person might represent, then the next president, and so on.
Who knows — perhaps I’ll end up voting for Obama in 2012. I will remain open to that possibility.
Please share this message with your community.”
This is an email that was sent to the blog, “CrooksandLiars”. You don’t see balanced speech like this often, so I was compelled to share this.
And this.
See hundreds of more photos of Americans who truly believe in Unity here.
First let me start off by saying congratulations to the Democrats, after a hard fought race you have come out on top and finally have your chance to lead. Let me also say that though I admittedly disagree with Barack Obama’s policies and ideology, I wish our new President Elect nothing but the best. I am an American before I am a member of a party and for the sake of all of us hope that Barack Obama makes the right decisions for our Country. I know many of you are very upset today, but let me remind you of something, there is an opportunity to be had in an Obama victory. This victory gives conservatives a chance for a fresh start and allows us to rebuild our party bigger and stronger.
Your all blithering idiots! Sorry I had to be that blunt but I spent the morning cruising from blog to blog and seemed to keep stumbling upon these sites that just, quite simply, had nothing to say. It seems like they spend all their time and energy spinning hate and disgust for the other side. Instead of spending time trying to come up with one constructive thought about whats going on in the world they regurgitate what they just read on their favorite editorial site and then proceed to bash the opposite side for not seeing it their way.
I find it hard to believe that someone could actually believe their side is 100% right. Instead of bashing the other side maybe, and sit down when you read this, you might spend your time actually thinking of ways to better the political party you so staunchly protect, hold your leaders accountable for the promises they make and break, both parties have them.
No side is worse then the other because collectively they wouldn’t be able to come up with one original thought to better themselves or mankind. Rather, they seem quite content with being pigeon holed in their own private hells.
Well, for any of you that this post might address I leave you with one thing to read, HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?, courtesy of the one blog, No Religion Now, that actually got me to think today and delivered me to writing this post.
I am subscribed to WordPress Political Blogs in my Google Reader. Most of the blogs I find there are “conservative”. Reasonable debates with the far Right is a challenge. Only very few can manage a back-n-forth disagreement without resorting to putting words in my mouth or insulting my person. The Red Pill from Cadillactight is one conservative blogger that is an AWESOME debater. But these types of civilized debates are becoming extinct through the “Us versus Them” mentality and divisive politics that the Far Right has successfully established in this country. And sometimes I wonder if it is because they are still bitter about their loss in the Civil War. That bitterness must have been taught from one generation to the next. Well, that’s one of my zany liberal conspiracy theories, so I probably have no idea what I am talking about.
Additionally, if you do a lot of reading, you’ll notice that when the Right tries to sell buttons or T-shirts, a lot of their stuff reads, “Piss off a Liberal, but a Sarah Palin 2012 pin” or “Piss off a Liberal, buy a gun” or “Piss off a Liberal, work hard a be happy” and the list goes on. They act like hormonal teenagers stuck in angst-mode. They just don’t sound like the happy-go-lucky people that they incessantly brag to be.
And I’m not the only liberal to miss spirited debate with those conservatives still valiantly defending the reality based community, such as Gergen, Powell, Christopher Buckley and the like.
‘There was a time when conservatives were, in my opinion, wrong about everything, but you could interpret facts differently from them and be right without necessarily dismissing them as insane. I really hope we can get back to that kind of honest debate. It was intoxicating.’
Dissent is not divisive. Dissent is not Anti-American. It’s called being a member of the free world. But some extremists from the Right like Ms Governor Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann prefer America to be separated into two different countries.
Yes. The very height of Elitism.
Just when we thought that Elitism was the word to describe the Left.
This article and video has been circulating about the internet like cancer. You can find it in all the neocon blogs. They are lapping it up like thirsty cats who haven’t had anything to drink for days.
See the video for yourself. If you ask me, it exposes the dumb on the Right – NOT the Left.
This video displays the unintelligence and naivete on the Right for the following reason:
These videos are so incredibly easy to make. Just go on Youtube and in the search engine type “stupid Americans” or “dumb Americans” and you’ll find literally thousands of videos where Americans are interviewed on their political knowledge and all of them sound retarded.
What’s happening? It’s biased. Let’s say that 200 people are interviewed, they’ll find 50 of the dimmest bulbs and then only show them. This is common knowledge to those people who have a clue.
I could easily do that with Republican voters and get the same results. Something tells me that they would prove more embarrassing than their Liberal counterparts.
This is the kind of “media” I don’t take seriously. It’s funny because the wingnuts are always complaining about the bias and lies of the “Liberal media”. See? Typical Republican hypocrisy at its finest!
And finally, those people who cannot tell that Obama was just joking when he said there were 57 states, need to die. Republicans know very well that he was joking, but in the absence of anything substantial to find on Obama, our right-wing lunatics grasp at straws to find something – anything that they can find to place Obama in a bad light. If you don’t see that he was joking, that’s pretty sad. You need to get out more, laugh, and live life.
The fact that you right-wingnuts believe anything that comes from your end, to me, is scary. And with that said, your juvenile attempts to discredit your fellow Americans and the to-be president of the United States sounds like YOU are the REAL brain-dead Anti-Americans.
I’m listening to the Bill O’Reilly No Spin Zone talk show on the radio right now. Actually Bill thinks this video and “research” isn’t fair either. He challenges John (the one who conducted this “research) to do the same with the Right. John was a guest on his show today – just in case you missed it. But knowing John and his bias, I doubt that he has the courage to conduct fair research.
On another note, it’s funny… as I learned about Ayers, Rezco, and Pastor Wright courteousy of (are you ready for this?)CNN. Naturally, the Far Right hates CNN because they always fairly show both sides of every story unlike most Republican talk-radio hosts.
The mania and obsession revolved around Palin is literally endless, and I don’t have anywhere near the time to address any more of it. The above alone should give you a clue that Obamessiah ain’t the only one people are putting on brown shirts over…
“She does not represent my views at all, and I never planned on voting for that ticket to begin with, but I seriously found myself feeling sorry for her when I watched her Couric interview. The other interviews were bad enough, even the Hannity softball one, but OMG, watching her just makes me feel like you do when a little kid is in a school play and completely forgets his lines and you just feel sorry for him and you almost want to reach out and help him somehow, but you can’t.
Whatever overconfidence and bravado this individual was able to display in the beginning has melted into a confused deer-in-the-headlights.
I personally hope she stays on the ticket, as she is absolute gift for the Obama/Biden ticket, which has been my opinion since she was chosen”. — Julia O
—> Because she’s pretty and the Right think with their genitalia. Isn’t voting for someone just because they’re hot and have a vajayjay, objectifying women as in…. *gasps* sexism?
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
—> Because she’s ignorant about her own country and the world around her. The radicals can relate to this frightening level of dumb as exemplified below:
—> Because she’s pro-life, she loves to kill defenseless and innocent animals just for the sake of the kill. Because she’s pro-life and risked “her baby’s” own life as evident here. Because she’s pro-life and supports a war based of false pretences.
And if you think it’s jealousy that vetted out Governer Sarah Palin, you might want to read this before you rush to judge. Neocons have an amazing ability to conveniently confuse dissent with jealousy as a means to deal with the fact that their Messiah is less than poifect.
Palin’s wardrobe still continues to be brought up by both the Right and the Left. I never even looked deeply into all that drama as I really didn’t care about it. Usually, I’ll go to factcheck.org or politifact.com to see who’s telling the truth and who’s not to get the FACTS versus the RUMORS. But this issue was too trivial for me to bother. Additionally, I just assumed that the RNC/GOP wanted to win so badly that they had to do something to make her look good to counteract her horrible reputation (that had nothing to do with the “liberal media”). So, in a way, I found it justified.
BUT!
Yes, there’s a but.
The only thing that bothered me about Palin’s $145820008875641.00 wardrobe is the fact that she was a woman who claimed to be representing the *middle class average Joe’s*. Am I correct with this assumption? I found it a bit odd that one who is trying to desperately reach to our level to be wearing outfits that the average man in the street couldn’t even begin to afford to wear. One pair of her shoes alone cost more than what a married couple has in their entire closet. Her folksy speak was empty – despite how horny she made many American conservatives feel.
If Palin hadn’t been incessantly claiming to be “sympathetic” to the working class Americans, her wardrobe would be absolutely NO issue for me AT ALL. Period.
Next, she purchased her clothes where the Hollywood and Washington ELITES buy their clothes. Isn’t that ironic considering that on the campaign trail she was railing against those very same *elites*?
What about Hillary Clinton? Despite her many flaws (that had nothing to do with the conservative media), she never went on and on and on and on ad nauseam pretending to be every Joe’s BFF. Look at her wardrobe. She practically wore the same clothes (different color) every time we saw her. Hillary didn’t have the best fashion or the best style. But she represented the middle class better and more efficiently than Palin who unintentionally made it clear that she was above American Joe’s, above American people who lived in the “Anti-American parts” or “big towns and cities” of the US, and above American ethics.
At the end of the day, who are the REAL elitists? Who are the real fiscal conservatives?
Note:For those who don’t want to read this whole diatribe, please scroll all the way to the bottom of this post and address my comments and questions regarding the apparent “jealously” of Gov. Sarah Palin. Thanks.
—> This just in. One of 58878500025568 blogs that swear all American liberals are jealous of Sarah Palin are a bit confused.
Radical Conservatives Confuse Dissent with Jealousy
Let’s see, she did a two-day interview with Matt Lauer, a two-day interview with Wolf Blitzer, a three-day interview with Greta Van Susteran, and is having her door blown down by Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters, and Larry King as well.
In fact; even profound writers like Claire Guehenno cannot seem to shut up about Gov. Palin. Gee, I wonder why.
The oppressed, modern-day liberal women are terrified that a conservative woman can be accomplished.
How exactly am I “oppressed”? The last time that I checked I was living in the United States of America where one is FREE to LIVE and DO as they PLEASE and make choices that fulfils them. I am looking at my passport right now, and I swear it doesn’t say “Saudi Arabia”. It says, “USA” on it.
Just about every conservative blog I run across, there are a few posts that are showing how the only reason a Republican wasn’t elected this time around was because the 66,882,230 Americans that voted for Obama were just doing so because they are jealous of Sarah Palin’s success. Because Sarah Palin “has got it all”.
Define “having it all?” (And please leave out personal choices because anybody can make a choice!).
Why do so many liberal men and women hate Bush (you have been around for the last 8 years, right?), why do so many liberals hate Cheney, McCain?
Wake up you brain-dead Neocons! Where the hell were you when thousands of books have been written to criticize Bush, when many movies were made to embarrass him, when many people protested in the streets about the war, when just about all the networks ridiculed him (even Republican talk-radio if you can imagine that), bashed him unashamedly, comedians picked him apart mercilessly, when all we heard for 8 years were complaints made by Americans and the rest of the world. Eight long years of Bush to the point where he now has a 23% APPROVAL RATING! Did you hear that? Yes, a 23% APPROVAL RATING. THAT IS A ***HISTORICAL LOW***.
What did you honestly think would happen this election? Seriously.
Why do so many conservatives hate Obama? You don’t think he’s an accomplished man? If you knew where he came from and his struggle to get where he is today, YOU’D BE JEALOUS! Not us. YOU. He has achieved much more depth in his lifetime than Palin can ever dream of. Even Hillary Clinton has achieved way much more than Palin. But of course, you filter out anything that could ever possibly put Obama and Hillary in a positive light recognizing them for what good they have done instead of obsessing about the “bad” which are mostly conspiracy theories and fabricated stories revolved around hyperbole and paranoia.
Can’t you guys get your head out of your collective asses for just one moment and accept that fact that people’s views about candidates have more to do with their BELIEFS and the ECONOMY than a candidate’s personal achievements, personal choices or personal life? Were you really expecting liberals like me to be a traitor to our own values and convert to Team Palin just because she has nice legs and was a pro-life governor?
We know for a fact that neocons hate Hollywood TV and movie stars, we also know that you people HATE the 78% of American Jews (the richest and most successful people in America) who voted for Obama. That, my friends, can easily be attributed to j-e-a-l-o-u-s-y. But you guys say it’s because Hollywood is Liberal and they are freaks that make arses out of themselves. Well, we don’t like Palin because she’s a Radical Right-wingnut that made her own party (even during the campaign) criticize her.
Do you wingnuts not realize how vulnerable you make yourselves in saying that Obama fans are jealous of Palin? For the record, we make fun of her and criticize her because she makes a grand international fool out of herself on a daily basis. The entire world is laughing at her. You’re too busy calling Obama an Arab terrorist Hilter-apologizing NeoNationalSocialist baby-killer to even have the time to find out what an embarrassment Palin is to the US in the SAME WAY that Bush was!
And men feel the same way American women feel about Palin.
This jealousy card has been over-used. You have hit rock bottom. You people make it like the Messiah, Sarah Palin is the first woman to have ever been accomplished? Once you find liberal woman jealous of the billions and billions of women who have made something out of themselves, then you’ll have a case. Right now, you guys are just looking desperate. And keep in mind, it was the PROGRESSIVES that have taken women where they are today. Since when are Republicans all of the sudden worried about “feminism”?
Maybe you guys cannot handle the fact that a black man can be an accomplished man in the United States?
Seriously people, you’re scraping a bottomless barrel here….
What I would Looooooooooooooooooooove to see is a Liberal woman one day go up against a conservative male candidate in a future election that is a knock-out (looks are the only thing that Palin has over Hillary). You betcha. Oooooh, we libs would have so much fun with you guys. We’ll keep you busy at what you do best: graspin’ for straws and scrapin’ barrels.
Losers.
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM CURIOUS AMERICAN FEMALE LIBERALS
1) How is it humanly possible for someone to hate another for the choices that they make? Most of these successes you speak of are simply choices that ANYONE can make.
And based on what the neocons have written, that makes me quite a success myself if you think that I have practised my choices and am living life the way I want to. I am maybe not the happiest person in the whole world, but I am content with my life. And I wouldn’t trade places with anyone.
2) You mention that liberal women are oppressed. How is that?
3) What have you got to say to all the men who criticized Palin?
4) Why did liberal men and woman hate Bush if simply dissent is equated to jealousy?
5) With Bush’s approval rating being at a historical low of 23%, what did you think was going to happen this election?
6) If you are as old as I am, you’ll know that in harsh economic times, people are more compelled to vote Democrat.
7) Other than what negativity you have heard surrounding Obama, if you know his past – seeing where he came from and where he is now is more of a jump compared to Palin by a long shot. He is a successful man.
Do you think it’s just that conservatism hates to think that a black man can be accomplished?
8 ) The majority of liberals are Jews. 78% of Jews voted for Obama over Palin. If you know anything about American Jews, they are the richest, best looking, most successful, law abiding and decent people in America. Do you think that you’re just projecting and just jealous of American Jews and accomplished blacks?
9) It is the progressives that have fought for equal rights for women. Why are you criticizing them now?
10) Since when are Republicans concerned (all of the sudden, mind you) about Feminism and Sexism?
11) In record history, there has never been more hype and fanaticism over a VP candidate. Palin is your, “The One” – she is your “The Messiah”.
12) Here’s the true acid test. I’d love to see in a future election a Republican male against a HOT Liberal female. Then, we shall see who the true feminists are.
13) Quite obviously, Sarah is not the first ever accomplished woman in the history of the world. Can you think of any other woman that is equally – if not more accomplished than Palin that liberals have also attacked?
14) Aren’t you guys acting like the “liberal media” by making false accusations about Americans that you’ve never met – twisting, fabricating, exaggerating and all that jazz? You sound just like the Americanophobes that I rail against in my blog.
15) Let’s see. You’re sticking up for 1 female and bashing an estimated 40 million American female Obama voters. It appears to me that you hate women considering the Math. Could you perhaps be a misogynist?
So, exactly how are me and my female liberal compatriots “jealous”?
And Liberals are self-loathing, whiny, pessimist, paranoid, humorless hacks… according to Team Red.
This myth created around liberals only began when Bush took office and became increasingly a popular rumor in the last 4 years of his presidency.
The far Right have a tendency to think all-things-one-dimension. Complex subjects and complex things confuse them. They give up frustrated and wave the white flag of surrender. So, leave it up to the far stretched-out Right to come up with something so bizarre, although could very well be true. Let’s take a look.
Here’s what’s happening:
Let’s start with humor. Do any of you not realize that Comedy Central and most comedians are liberal? Yes, those people that make us laugh in the movies and on TV screens all the time, are LIBERALS. We rule the entertainment and comedy industry. So, there goes your theory that Liberals hate to make jokes and laugh. Interestingly enough, it can’t be a coincidence that those who don’t get my sense of humor are often hardcore conservatives.
Liberals and conservatives have been polled. When asked if they are happy, generally the conservatives say that they are happy, and the liberals respond saying that they are not happy.
We first have to define “happy”. Maybe we see happiness differently? Have you ever thought of that? For example, it may just be that “happy” to conservatives is defined on more of a superficial level whereas Liberals define happiness on a deeper level seeing the big picture instead of focusing on one thing? Saying that you’re not happy doesn’t necessarily mean that you hate yourself, your world, your life, and all people.
So I hate that conservatives “don’t care” but I think they may be closer to living in their moment than I in mine. I’m always stuck in the “as soon as this problem is solved or over, then, I can get on with my life.” Trouble is another one just pops up to replace the old one anyhow. So perhaps I don’t spend enough time on the wonder of today, and the blessings I actually have. And then again, that gets me to thinking. . . .
Staunch Conservatives have a tendency to repress emotion, be stoics, live in denial, and see the world through rose-colored glasses. The poster-boy of this type is the far Right Republican talk show host, Michael Medved. He is a pollyanna and so are the same people that feel all liberals walk around with scars on their wrists. Sharp people see right through pollyannas. And if you ask me, they are just miserable people with a mask. The thing is that they become pollyannas as a coping mechanism to deal with life’s stresses. But their pain is easily seen and comes out via passive aggression.
When you take a lemon and make lemonade out of it, it can prove to be worthwhile. But not all of the time. Some kind of balance is necessary and should depend on the situation. You people take that principle way too far. The Right who portrays themselves as the party of “straight talkers” and “politically incorrect shooters” seems odd to me when it is really the Left that expresses themselves more honestly taking the risk that they just might add to the “stereotype” or the “statistics” of a depressed and unhappy “Libbie”. We care less about what people think of us.
Speaking of learning how to survive stress. The Righteous Right believe in God and organized religion. That is their crutch. That is how they get through from day to day. And I respect that. And understandably, I can see how this would aid one who is going through rough spots in their life. I think that we all need a crutch. But perhaps it is more common for Liberals to not lean on shoulders to get through life? Maybe we do it on our own? Not saying this is good or bad. This is not an issue of who’s right or wrong. It’s an issue of which party has the most reliable survival mechanisms.
It appears to me that the Right have many coping techniques to get through life’s most rigid edges. When they feel powerlessness, they take control over others whereas a Liberal may see a psychiatrist for their depression or anxiety instead. The Right pulls out the bible, and the Left seeks science to feel better by attending therapy and becoming more aware of themselves. When one is aware of himself, he is also aware of his weaknesses as well as his strengths. The Right may only be aware of their strengths and tend to be over-confident when it comes to seeing themselves and their life realistically – hence the “happiness”.
And naturally, if you only think of yourselves and ignore the problems on our own turf and throughout the world, surely you’ll be happier. One man for himself. The charity that the Neo-conservatives are so famous for is, for the most part, only within their churches. The church-goers only protect their own. Outsiders can go fend for themselves.
The Right also tend to have a religious patriotism toward not only their country, but their own family as well. Even if they spent years being sexually abused by their own father and was brutally beaten by their mothers, they will faithfully back them and love them until their death.
You see, both Liberals and Conservatives are unhappy (rhetorically speaking).
What’s happening here is that Liberals are honest about how they feel. They are more in touch with themselves. They don’t wear the blinders. So, they respond to those Right-winged orchestrated polls with the truth.
Secondly, Neo-Conservatives are insecure with who they are and are always looking to find fault with those whom were unhappy with Bush and co. So, they go out and about to run these polls to PROVE that Liberals hate themselves and everybody to make the right-wingnutters feel vindicated about supporting Bush. Conservatives literally go out of their way with these childish tests to prove their superiority over the wrist-slashing-neo-pagan hacks.
Liberals are cynics and can be very skeptical, and that is often misconstrued with being “unhappy”. We are self-critical. We ask questions, we challenge authority, we challenge our own parents, sisters, and brothers, we may disagree with the “moral majority”, and THAT is thought of as being “clinically depressed” and/or “hate-mongering” by the Right.
Dumb people are happier. Ignorance IS bliss. There is no scientific evidence to prove this, but I have found that the dumbest people I know are the most ill-informed and self-contradictory. When you’re not living in reality in the REAL WORLD, you are bound to be happy. The more intelligent that you are, the more you realize the cruel world that we live in. It’s no excuse to not make the best of it, of course. But full awareness, by its very own nature is depressing. Some trivia:There are just as many sites on the internet that talk about dumb people being happier as there are Neo-Conservatives being happier. Some food for thought?
Speaking of Happy being connected to Dumb: Based on this article, you’d think that Liberals would be happy as it is “proof” that we are clearly the most uninformed out there!
And finally, I have a feeling that this “test” of “positivity levels” was done perhaps unfairly? They, more than likely, suppressed the mainstream liberal answers and only took notice of the FAR LEFT answers. They probably suppressed the answers from the often angry FAR RIGHT and just used the votes of the mainstream conservatives to compare with. If that is the case, Team Red has an excellent argument. The lunatic fringe on both sides of the fence are the scariest people I have ever met.
So, yeah, when you test mainstream conservatives with the looney Left, you’re going to get the results that you hoped for.
This lambasting of Liberals for their negativity about the world lasted throughout the entire eight years of GWB’s “flawless presidency”. To be fair, back in the 60’s hippie movement, the Left suppressed their frustrations about the world and the current state of affairs by getting stoned all the time. They didn’t want to see reality for what it was and used several things as crutches to get by.
Anywhooo……….
—>Fast forward to Nov. 4th, 2008<—
Some noteworthy things have changed.
Liberals have literally changed places with the Conservatives. Team Red has just honorably earned this sticker:
Team Red, on the other hand, are walking around with their heads between their knees, whining, making threats, whining, hoping for assassinations, whining, creating wild conspiracies, whining, hating, whining, making racist comments on youtube because they know they’re anonymous, whining, thinking the absolute worst of Obama, whining, crying, whining, having temper tantrums, whining, and hating Americans and America. They are probably taking that belt out whooping their kid’s ass and kicking their dog more than ever now. You thought that you knew the Righteous Right before, you should see them now. They are all knotted in bunches.
Oh. Did I forget to mention whining?
Damn. It feels so good to be on the other side for a change. Now, you still can cling bitterly to your guns-n-religion, ya hear? Or you could always do the liberal thing and pop a Prozac and start cutting yourself emo-style.
(Note: The only reason I write this is to show that these poll results are not as simple as thought to be. Many factors weigh in rather than the black and white happy vs sad comparison – although the conservatives just may be right about this one.)
Team Blue is constantly being accused of just liking Obama for the sake of it, not knowing who he is, what he stands for, and apparently we just like him because we like to chant, “Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama,”. Nothing more. Supposedly Obama is some kind of Messiah who will save us and that’s all we know. “Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, Change, — yep – that’s all we chant. We don’t know what it means. We just say it. It sounds good. It’s the cool and hip thing to do. We liberals never paid attention to Obama/Biden’s website regarding the issues. We never read about either one of them. We just listened to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and chanted “Yeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, baby, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”. That’s where we got all of our information. We were brainwashed to believe that Barack Obama would deliver SUNSHINE AND HAPPINESS to the US.
Simply put, all liberals voted for Obama because well, jus’ cuz. Fer notin’ oder dan votin’ fer da man jus’ cuz, sup yo?!
From having read numerous conservative blogs, it appears to be that even mainstream conservatives think that everyone is a Republican at heart, but those who say they aren’t, are either
Sexist or
Jealous of Sarah Palin
or in denial of their true inborn god-given conservative nature.
Well, guess what, everybody? I am a jealous sexist because I voted for Barack Obama thinking that he would give me sunshine and happiness and some jus’ cuz!
“Sarah Palin is everything these elite feminists aren’t. Happily married, good looking, good looking husband, big family, pro-life, apparently well adjusted, folksy, hunter gal, who apparently loves being a woman and a mother. On top of that, she could whip most of these liberal males. Doesn’t get anymore threatening than that to the kool-aid sipping crowd.” – Tex Taylor
1) Happily Married? Do you have proof that all Liberals are getting divorced or single? Just because a married couple are smiling and holding hands means that they are “happily married”? WTF? Ever hear of the “nice” neighbor next door that is suddenly accused of murder? Damn, you wingnuts are naive as fuck! Keep sipping that kool-aid.
2) Jealous of good looks? Does this mean that all liberals are ugly? Really? And for someone to be jealous of someone’s looks is pretty damn lame. It is a lame that only the right is capable of. To have even said that alone shows the level of superficial lows these people reach. Keep sipping that kool-aid.
3) Big Family? Are you serious? How exactly does a big family make one a better person? Liberals only have one child? Do they not procreate? And what is wrong with having just one kid? I guess it’s Godless to have just one kid? Probably something that only commies do, I guess. I surely didn’t receive that memo yet…. In any event, why would one be jealous of a big family when it is easy and more fun to have condomless sex and make babies. That is the easiest and one of the most enjoyable activities there are. This is not something to be jealous of. ANYONE CAN FUCK, you dimwats. LOL Keep sipping that kool-aid.
4) Jealous of pro-lifers? You probably want to explain that one to me. How can liberals be jealous, once again, of a choice that is simple to make? Keep sipping that kool-aid.
5) Well adjusted? Liberals are all mentally ill? (Or do you just mean the 78% of the rich and successful Jews that voted for Obama?) We are jealous of this? Let’s just say that we only see what they show us. Not even the most professional and experienced psychologists can give accurate assessments to determine whether or not one is “well adjusted”. Some of the most functional and “confident” people in the world are sociopaths, psychopaths, or narcissists . This is common knowledge, but leave it to the Reds to be so ignorant and blindly patriotic toward one woman they think they know everything about. Even the Obama supporters don’t sink to that level of perversion and worship-like obsessive behavior. Keep sipping that kool-aid.
6) Jealous of Folksiness? Omg…. we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here, aren’t we? Hon, for the record, I can say, “you betcha” too. Not very hard. Sorry. Nothing to be jealous of there, love. Keep sipping that kool-aid.
7) A hunter gal? I am supposed to be jealous of a PRO-LIFE HUNTER-GAL. (Isn’t that an oxymoron?) Again, this is a choice. It is humanly impossible to be jealous of a choice. LOL (Just when you think things couldn’t get weirder!) Keep sipping that kool-aid.
8 ) Love being a woman and a mother? So, this is to imply that all liberal women wish that they were men? And this means that liberal women who procreate hate being moms? For the record, those who LOVE being a mother actually spend time with their children – the last time I checked. They don’t leave them with someone else to raise while mom and dad carry on with their self-serving lives. And how the hell do you people know what Palin loves? Keep sipping that kool-aid.
9) She could whip most liberal males? How is this? How does being a liberal equate to being a wimp, exactly? Because Palin has a gun she can kick ass? Is this the “my daddy can beat up your daddy syndrome” that is often exhibited by junior high schoolers? Psst… People that fight with a gun against someone else’s fist are cheating. Only a Republican can be so cowardly. I’ll see a REAL woman fight when the game is fair. I’ll see a REAL woman fight gun to gun or fist to fist. And why? The party of the elite and self-righteous bible-thumpers are putting an emphasis on the infantile “whipping ass”? Since when is this an achievement or something to be proud of? See, this is the level you imps lower yourselves to. The Christian pro-lifers just love violence so much, don’t they? What is up with that? Why is being violent something to boast about? A classic inferiority complex is what you people have that you must resort to violent words and behaviorisms to get your messages across. Keep sipping that kool-aid.
The bottom of the barrel is no more. You’ve scraped it all out. This is why you people have the reputation that you do. You are an embarrassment to America. You give us all a bad name. And you give your party a bad name. Your “values” are nothing short of delusions of grandeur and infantile short man syndrome and divisiveness.
To my readers: Just go look at all the conservative blogs out there. They all say the exact same thing. Same thing, but different wording written by a different author. Some of them probably even copy and paste. I cannot even begin to count how many times I have read the above. Literally on every RED blog. Go see for yourself.
The knee-jerk reactions to dissent are amusing to me. Lack of originality. Same regurgitated talking points.
In any event, I responded to this person even though he was preaching to the general audience who don’t oooooh and aaaaaaah THE Great Messiah Palin. I am a member of that audience. So, I found his comments quite personal (as a woman myself) and offensive and rightly so.
What is so very wrong with you conservatives??? I am genuinely curious! I really wish I could say that I was judging you all by your extremists, but extremists aren’t writing this drivel. Normal everyday mainstream Republicans are writing this.
This is what made me come to the conclusion that the Messiah for the Reds is Sarah Palin. She can do no wrong. She’s perfect. You know, the woman that looks like a woman, but can do boy-things too.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I used to play with toy cars when I was a little girl. I wonder if I’ve got a shot at becoming a VEEP someday. Or even prez. Oh yeah, and I beat my husband at arm-wrestling! Oh wow. Are horny conservatives now going to show up at my door step? Are they going to believe everything I say just because I am all woman who is capable of doing manly jobs? I can use an electric drill really well. But yannoooooo, I just don’t have it in me to kill animals just for the sake of the kill to feel better about myself or to release tension. As a pro-choicer, you’d think I’d like to see God’s creations die. But no. The pro-lifers are into that. They like to attack the defenseless. Not because they’ve been raped or at high risk of dying during pregnancy, but just for the thrill of the kill to fill a void in their empty lives. Cowardly. If you’re going to eat the animal, that’s one thing. But for the sake of the kill? Cowardly. Ungodly. Hypocritical. Murderer.
Newsflash: Women that are 100% Estrogen-Audrey Hepburn, doll-like-cross-your-legs-sitting-quietly, barefoot, and prego are R-A-R-E. Where are they? I’ve been alive for 40 years, and I just can’t find them. What I DO find everywhere around me are married and working women with children in daycare where their child calls their child molesters “caretakers”, “mommy”. And these same “parents” and the generation before me is wondering why kids behave so differently (for a lack of a better term) these days.
And by the way, since when are the conservatives worried about Feminism??? We haven’t ever heard a peep out of them until the extremist right-winger divisive, clueless and cowardly Palin arrived on the scene. Now, all liberals are sexist and jealous. Never mind the fact that it was the effort of the PROGRESSIVES that got women where they are today.
Women are limitless as to what they can do nowadays. If they have a dream and the will, they can grab it as any man can too. Palin is just but one grain of sand among the gazillions of women who are “accomplished, beautiful, family-oriented, have testosterone, and are successful” or whatever Tex says that defines a “real woman”. And I betcha that for every Sarah Palin out there, there are just as many (if not more) that are happier, more successful, and better off overall. Sarah Palin is not special. She’s just another power-hungry wannabe.
See, I don’t particularly find Palin to be this “feminine-role-model-woman” the Reds are making her out to be. That is just my opinion. And it’s not because I am jealous.
They are just screaming, “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA,”.
Honestly, I think that Laura Bush is feminine. She is also successful. So, If I’m going to be so insecure to choose someone to be jealous of, I’ll pick Laura Bush or Michelle Obama. Michelle is gorgeous, has two beautiful children, and is VERY accomplished. So, yeah… I’ll be jealous of them. So, thanks but no thanks to yah for that Palintology sales pitch that leads to nowhere.
Like I had mentioned earlier in my reply, feeling like you’re a success and/or accomplished is SUBJECTIVE. We are compared by conservatives in the most superficial of terms. You can even be a single woman working a 9-5 job and be damn happy and feel good about yourself. That is enough for some people. To be jealous of someone else means to feel worthless and insecure deep down inside. And according to Tex and all other Palin supporters, every liberal is such.
So, basically you are not a “real woman” if you don’t support Sarah Palin. Yep. That goes for the men too. I will tell my liberal husband tonight when he comes home from work that he is jealous of Palin just so that he knows. I’d hate for him to be uninformed. Wait ’till I tell him that Palin can “kick his ass” too. I am sure he’ll reach for the blades and start cutting himself into a deeply depressed funk.
To those of you out there that think like Tex… Sorry, but I think I’ll decide for myself what makes me feel good and accomplished. I hardly need someone who masturbates over Palin’s sound bites and Pentacostal hair-dos every night to tell me how I am supposed to feel about myself based on my political beliefs.
See, this is why you people lost the election. You are the ones who divide the US and you’re the proud creators of the “us vs them” mentality. You started it. And the McCain campaign just perfected it – hence the loss.
Surely some on the Left will call you racist for not supporting Obama and resort to condescending attacks across the aisle, but there’s no match to the violent, bully-like and elitist nature of the Reds. Yes, you guys are elitist too. You think that you are better than everyone else and try to recruit people into your God-fearing morally superior ideologies and every other bright-red belief that you have.
You are the party of hypocrites and walking self-contradictions. You have a blind eye to the flaws and corruption within your own party. You sugar-coat what you know to be wrong and immoral. You see the world through rose-colored glasses and tell everyone that you’re positive and happy. You filter what you read and watch on the news solely to suit your own agendas.
What is ironic about all this is that today I posted (several hours ago) about the resentment the Republicans have for American Jews, and in this post, I made mention of the jealousy that they have toward their nature of being the hardest working most successful group of people out there (and they’re liberals!). Read that post to find out why. And to add to the list of how conservatives are jealous of Jewish Liberals….
Let’s see… They are jealous because
Liberals make education a priority
Liberals are more creative, free-thinking, curious, and have the capability to think beyond 1 dimension
There are significantly less teenage pregnancies among Liberals
Liberals make the most money in the country
Liberals are more adventurous in bed
Liberals like to be FREE to decide whether to believe in God or not
Liberals would like to be FREE to use a vibrator in Alabama
Liberals would like to be FREE to marry someone of the same sex and adopt
Liberals aren’t afraid of their own bodies and aren’t sexually repressed
Liberals take better care of their bodies
Liberals have a sense of humor
Liberals like to take notice that America isn’t the only country out there and appreciate other cultures, languages, and people that are different
Liberals prefer the separation of church and state
Liberals prioritize happiness and FREEDOM to be themselves over succumbing to “societal norms”
Liberals make the best athletes
Liberals dance better, and know how to have a good time
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Marc R. Stanley, Chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), released the following statement:
Although some votes are still being counted, there are three certain outcomes to this election. The next leader of the United States of America will be President-elect Barack Obama, the Democrats have increased their lead in both the Senate and House, and American Jewish voters have once again overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Presidential nominee.
Obama clinched the vast majority of the Jewish vote, receiving 77% according to MSNBC exit polls Tuesday evening (Senator John McCain received 22%).
We congratulate Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden on this historic victory. This year, the American people and Jewish voters sent a clear message rejecting a continuation of four more years of failed Republican policies and leadership.
With Obama’s victory, we selected a candidate who shares the values of the vast majority of American Jews, including the separation of church and state, a strong U.S.- Israel relationship, and reproductive freedom.
American Jews have always made up the majority of our Progressive population here in the United States. Additionally, it is common knowledge that Jewish Americans are critical thinkers and more intelligent than your average American. Most of them graduate from high school and college with honors, they are self-sufficient, less violent, rarely do you find them on welfare, most of them are in very professional careers, and they make more money than most.
They are family oriented, good looking, health-conscious, get married and have children.
Jews – religious or not – are rarely found to be fanatical and obsessive about their religion. It is a private issue for them. They are not interested in “spreading the word” or “recruiting new members”. I respect them for that. That alone makes them more tolerant and considerate of their neighbors.
Jewish people have a deep thirst for knowledge, and can be very kind people too. THAT’S why they are liberals. Not the estranged far Leftists, but Liberals – by its very own definition.
Republicans secretly (and sometimes not so secretly)hate Jews for this. Republicans hate the amount of money Jews make and they are jealous of their success. And to find out that they are *gasps* Liberal Progressives, only cements that hatred.
Jewish people are, by far, the most successful people. They are always winning Nobel prizes. As of today, they are up to their 159th Nobel prize and counting! They havedone more for the US than we’ll admit or even begin to appreciate.
And the above is what irritates Republicans. Neo-Conservatives want the Liberals to be the “blacks-n-Mexicans on welfare” party so badly. And they are pissed that it isn’t the case. When you ever hear a Neocon talking about “socialism”, you’ll hear them make derogatory generalizations about the Democratic party saying that we are all just “lazy jobless welfare-mongers” out to get a free ride (of course with the exception of Joe the Plumber ). When they hear that 78% of the Jews voted for Obama, they realize that the stereotype of the the liberal is incorrect.
So, they press the panic button.
They go into a sweaty-palmed frenzy and try to brainstorm reasons as to why the Jews mostly vote liberal. I have heard all sorts of wild and desperate justifications that just make me shake my head:
Jewish Stockholm Syndrome: “The Jewish Americans have always been oppressed by the Democratic Party that they have bonded (aka trauma-bonding) to their oppressor and can’t let go”. (In other words, they have a severe cast of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that they’re in denial of.)
They have “Jewish Guilt Syndrome”. (Once again, a suggestion that they are neurotic)
“Voting for Obama is pretty much like lining up to enter the boxcars.”(Here suggesting that they are suicidal and/or very depressed individuals – again shows mental instability.)
“The majority of American Jews are non-observant, and therefore have no vested interest in Judaism or Israel. Observant Jews understand what they face under Obama, and rightly voted for McCain.” (Heavily suggesting here that there is a correlation between being God-fearing and informed, and that those who aren’t God-fearing are ignorant and clueless.)
This is what the far Right would rather believe that all Liberal Democrats just want to stay at home, play video games and get paid by Hitler Obama to do so…. which is just utterly ridiculous. And it says quite a lot about the far Right’s own intelligence and mental disposition that THEY are in denial of.
Sadly enough, the Right-wingnuts have deduced Rahm Emanuel to not being pro-Israel as he is a “Liberal” too. And a Liberal cannot possibly be pro-Israel. However, the Left are upset because they feel Obama has already abandoned them.
Go figure…
Just look at the below blog entry and comment section over at Moonbattery.com. The far Righteous 10-commandment-following Right is supposed to be the party of “Judge not less be judged”, tolerance, and most importantly pro-Israel and pro-Jew. I thought it was supposed to be the far Left that were anti-Semites until I read the comment section following this post:
Now, I do not believe that general American liberals are anti-Semites. I’m sure there are some on the far Left in the US. But where this bigotry is the most noticeable for me is in other western civilizations such as Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. To them, Jews (no matter their place of birth) are Americans. And your average American is hated passionately in these areas by the Americanophobic Left-wingnuts.
Unlike the far Right, the far Left Americanophobes are unaware that American Jews are progressive-minded. Once these people find out that American Jews like Obama, they will be equally sweaty-palmed and confused as their far Right-wingnut counterparts.
It’s funny how our votes “counted” when Bush was “elected twice”, but when Obama was elected, somehow Americans “didn’t vote for them”. These Euro-elitists did?
I find it troubling that European countries in particular regard Obama’s election not only as a wonderful event all its own, but that they view it as their very own victory; as a direct vindication of themselves. By so doing, they are using the Obama triumph to justify their moral superiority in that they claim Obama as a crypto or quasi-European who is basically an American by accident.
Of course being black and all, he’s not American – or let’s say a “true American”. The only “real Americans” are those defined by the Europeans, Canadians, New Zealanders, Australians, South Americans, and Sarah Palin. The real Americans “they” speak of are those trailer trash horrors. You know, the typical, nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, vulgar, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, and self-centered Neanderthal Americans which represent the core and heart of America.
“…But I did encounter many white French people who felt sorry for what blacks went through in the United States. I couldn’t help but feel that these people were being awfully patronizing to some degree. I know that that wasn’t true. But the American in me just didn’t like the feeling that I was being babied. And after talking with many Afro-french people, I couldn’t help but feel that the French were ignoring their own racial problems. It doesn’t mean that one side is right or wrong about anything, nor does it excuse bad behavior, but I was still a bit perplexed by the sentiment…”
Additionally, what the Jew-hating Americanophobes don’t know is the fact that 78% of the American Jews VOTED FOR THIS WONDERFUL MAN TO LEAD THE WORLD BLACK GUY!!
Having watched German television over the past few days, listened to German radio broadcasts and read the country’s leading newspapers, there is an unquestioned sense of celebrating a German victory: The de facto “German” Obama, or the Obama with German sensibilities has defeated the racist, retrograde and yahoo Americans.
Yay! Obama has defeated the racist yahoo Americans!! Woo Hoo! Victory! Yeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Psst.Newsflash: It was those um “yahoo Americans” that erm sorta kinda voted for Obama. Uh yeah. See, Americanophobic Europeans think that all or most Americans are inherently evil and racist despite the fact that the Americans that ARE racist are the in the minority. Additionally, the 50-some-million people that voted for McPalin are not necessarily racist but conservative. There IS a difference.
Watching Micheline Calmy-Rey, the eminent French television personality, exclaim triumphantly and with glee that “Obama parle comme nous… (Obama speaks like we, i.e. the French, do), implicit in her gestures and demeanor was the unsaid “et pas comme les Americains” (not as the Americans).
If Obama doesn’t represent or think like “the Americans”, then who the fuck voted him in? Or is it just that most people living in America are “un-American”? Good Lord. If it weren’t for the Euro-support for Obama, I swear I’d think that these people hailed from the Right-wingnut house. Hopefully, you all now see what I mean when I say that the far Left and the far Right have A LOT in common? Both these groups are mentally deranged. In fact, if you go far enough to the Left, you will be in the Right zone and visa versa. Think of the Left and Right zones as the way the world is shaped (the globe). If you keep going in one direction and don’t stop, you’ll wind up in “the other territory”.
My point is simple: Countries in Europe are rejoicing in the Obama victory and claiming it as a direct result of their moral superiority over Americans while at the same time hiding their own shortcomings and intolerances, the weekly ugly racisms at their soccer grounds, the discriminations that are so common to their own societies and the very fact that a person of Obama’s racial, cultural and social identity, as well as his life’s story, would never be elected dog catcher in any of these allegedly enlightened societies, let alone head of government and head of state.
So true. And that’s why people likeTHIS are pissed off. They know their neck of the woods is far behind the US in terms of tolerance coupled with the fact that they never thought that Americans would ever elect *gasps* a minority figure – let alone a black man as their leader. So, it is no wonder that these Euro-elitists feel so threatened. More now than ever. More now than when Bush was out and about “policing the world”.
Obama’s triumph is an American story from start to finish as he has repeatedly stated. I hope that he — as well as we — will use this fact to deny Europeans their falsely claimed moral high ground by hijacking a unique event in modern history with which they had nothing to do. Just like we progressives have rightfully fought against American moral haughtiness, so, too, should we oppose such strains if they arise elsewhere, particularly if they are based on a usurped rather than achieved struggle.
(I go by the nickname, “happyleftie” and you can find me here on Twitter.)
When the geographically- and semantically-challenged Sarah Palin made her comment about being happy to be in a “Pro-American” part of the country, I was offended less by the inanity of the comment than the idea that being a liberal city-dweller was somehow equivalent to being “Anti-American”.
You see, I am a liberal. And I consider myself very “Pro-American” and a patriot. I am also an immigrant and have travelled to numerous countries, and am very vocal online. As such, I have often found myself defending our country from the criticism of foreigners who are phobic of anything American. Now, I find myself being attacked by both rightwing Americans and sanctimonious foreigners.
So, is it really possible to be a liberal supporter of Barack Obama and be “Pro-American”? You betcha!
I believe that some of us are liberal because we actually care about the founding principles of this country rather than its trappings and symbols. Questioning oneself is a form of self improvement – therefore, being constructively critical of your own country is a form of patriotism. It is when the criticism is mindless and cynical that it crosses over into the type of Anti-Americanism that Americanophobes indulge in.
Having said that, I believe that it is equally wrong to be dogmatically patriotic or religious, or both, as many in the extreme right tend to be.
When Obama said that we are perfecting our country, and when Michelle said that for the first time she was really proud of her country – that is when they got me. I actually felt I understood what she meant – that our country, during many times in its history, failed to live up to its ideals.
When I was younger, I flirted with what people may consider Anti-Americanism. I went through a phase where I felt that nothing was right about the Untied States. I found it fashionable to be cynical and blame the world’s problems on our country.
But, as I grew older and perhaps more mature in my thinking, I came to realize the United States, through its ups and downs, had the mechanism to re-invent and improve itself. I realized that our country’s major failures occurred when it strayed from its ideals of equality, freedom of speech, religion, and expression, and the principle of a representative democracy. In my early teens, I lived under a dictatorship, so I know just how valuable these ideals are, especially when they were trampled and discarded. You might guess that during the last eight years, I had frequent flashbacks to my early teens.
Ironically, my most recent epiphany about our system and its ability to fix its problems came from an unlikely source – I was on a business trip to Ethiopia, talking politics with a local lawyer over dinner. He was formerly a political commissar in the Communist Ethiopian army and was now a successful businessman in Addis Ababa, thriving under an imperfect but reasonably stable democracy.
He recounted the number of constitutions that Ethiopia had written, ratified, and adopted over the years. He said they all failed “because of personal agendas”. Then he startled me by saying that there was one easy way to solve the problem – simply by adopting the US constitution, verbatim. His simple statement reflected the wisdom of an objective outsider with a problem to solve. The ideals that our country was founded upon and give it its sustainability are almost perfectly encapsulated by two documents – the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Our current government, along with a few past administrations, had sought to subvert what this Ethiopian lawyer considered the epitome of legal codes.
The strength of our country lies in our loyalty to these ideals and the existence of these two documents as our collective memory of these ideals. The strength of our country does not lie in platitudes and slogans, but in our ability to aggregate the voices of our people to protect and if necessary, restore these ideals.
Last Tuesday, November 4, 2008, those voices were heard. We showed the world the resiliency of our democracy, and that we can in fact gather the collective will to restore our nation to the ideals from which it had strayed.
So, for those who still think that liberals cannot be patriots, think again. Blind loyalty without discernment of what is wrong and what needs to be fixed is just that – blindness. Finding fault in our government when it strays, refusing to be silenced, and gathering our collective will to fix what has been broken – there lies true patriotism.
The republican party is composed of low brow, 8 year old girls, that run, cry and scream at the slightest hint of a perceived insult.
The Repubs whined and cried and lied, their way to power. Sarah Palin is the ultimate embodiment of their souls. Thats why over 90 percent of Republicans polled like Sarah Palin…
And its true. For eight years, liberals far to the left, moderate liberals, and just plain-Jane liberals have been mercilessly mocked and accused of being…
whiners, cry babies
negative
unhappy
ungrateful
mean
playing the blame game
playing the victim
sore losers
Poor McCain was even pressured by his campaign to label OUR SIDE, “A Nation of Whiners”.
We Liberals have even claimed fame to the below sticker that you can find on most Right-winged blogs:
It is very interesting for me now to sit back and watch the drama unfold over at Camp Red post November 4th. I am happy. Not because they are in pain and in agony, but because we are seeing for the first time that they are human. And it is also refreshing that liberals can finally take a break for at least 4 years from being called, “an Anti-American” for protesting against Bush’s inane policies.
(Hopefully the other side now understands how we liberals felt under the Bush regime.)
According to the Far Righteous Right, it is “Anti-American” to make even the slightest suggestion that the USA is less than perfect.
It is Un-American
It is being a traitor
It’s treasonous
Some say it should be considered a felony if publicly spoken
It means you wish the worst for America and hate America and Americans
It means if you don’t like it here, go to Canada
It means that you don’t believe in the Cowboy John Wayne Doctrine, “My country right or wrong”
“America: Love it or leave it?“
Or in short, it means you’re a Godless, Jew-hating, weenie, Nazi-appeasing-Hitler-apologist, hairy, smelly, tie-dye, tree-hugging, weed-smoking, homo-loving-marriage-destroying, lazy-welfare-mongering, acid-tripping, baby-killing, kool-aid-drinking, broccoli-granola-soy-tofu-eating vegan, treasonous, bra-burning, flag-burning, draftcard-burning, bleeding-heart, Jane-Fonda-loving and Charles Manson-admiring, constitution/freedom-hating, Anti-American incessant-whiner pinko commie A-rab-terrorist-sympathizer who has a hidden agenda to overthrow the American government and its people.
And this, my fellow prisoners, are the same labels given to Mr. President-elect Barack Obama and his godforbidden supporters.
Speaking of God…
A Christian Pro-Lifer friend of mine even mentioned that the only way she got through Wednesday (the day after Obama was elected) was hoping that someone would assassinate him.
Is the current attitude we see from the Far Righteous Right these days a Pro-American one or an Anti-American one? Is it positive or negative?
And before you start riding my arse for my conclusion that Joe the Plumber could possibly be guilty of “being a Liberal”, just remember all of the times that your party plays rough with our people. I’m not even being mean. I am just simply suggesting that the liberal-incognito Joe the Plumber is not this “Messiah” that that Team Red is making him out to be.
Sound familiar?
My brother and his family (upper-middle-class people – the same people that Obama won’t cut taxes for) accepted disability funds from the government for his daughter that is an albino. And for a very long time. She also got a DEEPLY discounted college education somehow because she was an albino. They worked hard to get her $600 a month because she “can’t drive” and has a problem with her eyes. However, they also accepted from insurance (yet another social program) a special pair of glasses that enable people like my niece to drive without incident so long as she wears those special glasses! At that time, she was receiving a whooping $600 a month while going to school full time in her twenties living off of the dime of her parents basically getting everything she wanted. Her disability claims were fraudulent. She is not disabled. She can drive, work, go to school, and live just like the rest of the world. Soon, she will graduate and become a nurse. And what pisses me off the most about this is that my brother’s family (all of them) belong to the FAR-WAY-OUT-THERE-LOONEY-RIGHT. And they are also staunch libertarians!!
How do you like that?
I know the way some of you work because some of you are my own family. You play dirty. You are liberals in wolf’s clothing. When you get caught, you make excuses. You sit on a throne and point fingers. You call yourselves Christians and then don’t act like one. Most of you haven’t even read the bible, understand it or even know the 10 commandments.
My point is mostly what the Right accuse the Left of is done by the Right, themselves. Talk about sneakiness!
And before you scream that the Far Righteous Left is just as bad, don’t worry. I’ve challenged them over here.
I’m not asking any of you people to stop what you’re doing because then I’d have nothing to write about in my blog, and all the comedians in the US would then be out of business. Tina Fey is already going broke…
Speaking of comedy, now for some fun (for the Republicans to laugh at)
Obama win causes obsessive supporters to realize how empty their lives are.
“…the fact that I think that Obama is going to greatly disappoint a world (yes, like it or not the world is watching and waiting with great hopes) that is expecting “change”, well we will have to see. Perhaps you in America will see some window dressing, but the socialized medicine, decent public schools and social net envisaged by some over here in Europe will never come about. And in regards to American exceptionalism, I’m afraid he’s not going to just rip up the Monroe Doctrine and start anew.”
As a liberal, I just don’t peek at Neo-conservatives blogs to see what the latest conspiracy theory is. I also read articles and blogs written by the American progressive left. I think I have a pretty good idea about what the average liberal American expects of President-elect Barack Obama. I see realistic expectations. Surely, the tears, the “yes, we can’s”, the “yes we did’s”, the blood curdling screams, and the jumping up and down waving the US flag makes us appear like deluded lunatics. Fair enough. But deep down inside, those people are THAT desperate for change. No. Not desperate for blacks, not desperate to rely on Nanny government to take care of us while we live off of welfare for the rest of our lives, either. (Republicans need to keep in mind that it is and has always been the Liberals who make the most money and have the most successful careers in this country. And the large percentage of them are the JEWISH!)
If you don’t know why Americans are desperate, then you haven’t been paying attention and really don’t care to.
Most Americans have lived through days of both Republican and Democratic presidents. Most of us know that a politician is a politician whether he be Republican, Libertarian, Independent, Democratic, Green, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Male, or Female. They are all snake-oil salesmen. They all lie. They all break their promises. They all idealize. They all make mistakes. They all give us hope. They all make themselves look better than what they are realistically. Nothing new there.
WHAT HISTORY HAS TAKEN PLACE HERE?
Ask yourself: Has the United States ever been in a position so extreme before? Has a president’s approval rating ever been this low?This is also historical. Not as much as the fact that a black man won, but rather the fact that America, in the shape that it is in now, is at an all time low. This is History, folks. Why else would both parties be using the word, “CHANGE” as their campaign slogan? Why did evenMcCain distance himself from Bush?
Think about it. Have we ever been so desperate for CHANGE before?
There is HISTORY taking place all over in the US.
Two female candidates? That’s history too. Look at how close Sarah Palin got!
It is cliché that in desperate economic times, people lust over Democratic presidents. In the 2008 election, the desperation was not so much for a prez with a nice tan, but for a Democrat to clean up after 8 years of Bush’s mess! This is not to say that political apathists just blindly voted for a black man not caring about anything else. Surely, that happened. No doubt. But I hardly think that all or even most of the 65,102,280 Americans voted Democrat this time did so with superficial intentions.
It’s the economy, stupid.
Americans vote with their pocketbooks whether you like to believe this or not. It’s a fact. A harsh fact, indeed (especially to the far righteous Right), but it is fact.
We were in such dire straights. Now there is true hope. Not a miracle. Not a “Messiah”. Just hope.
But what about the hype existing outside the US over Mr. Barack Obama? To tell you the truth, I was surprised the progressives about the world are actually THIS happy about Obama winning. Too much hype. Too many expectations. Too much naiveté.
We Americans must sit down and remind foreigners that the United States is a RIGHT of Center country, and there’s nothing Obama can do to change that.
He proposes change, and I believe he’ll deliver that. But I don’t believe that he’ll deliver the change that Left-wing radicals and non-radicals may expect. If Obama doesn’t become a Centrist to a degree, reach across the aisle, and work cooperatively with conservatives, there will be outrage that may bring the Radical and looney Right-wingnuts back into office in 2012. And that’s what I’m particularly afraid of.
To the rest of the world: On a final note, I believe it is important to remember that our Democratic Presidents are synonymous to YOUR Conservative Prime Ministers/Presidents. So, let’s try and be realistic here.
Vancouver — Your editorial board expresses guarded admiration for Barack Obama and his promises for “change.”
Now, imagine a political candidate who voted to renew the Patriot Act and fund the Iraq war, backed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Reform Act, courted the Israeli lobby, supported the death penalty, refused to champion universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans, called to increase troop levels and expand the war in Afghanistan, failed to call for a reduction in defence spending, and lobbied (and voted for) the taxpayer swindle known as the Wall Street bailout.
This candidate sabre-rattled at Iran, promised to roll back “Russian aggression” and to extend treaty protection to a Georgian regime that cluster-bombed its own people, advocated for military strikes in Pakistan, opposed same-sex marriage, and favoured extending the death penalty.
The candidate’s name and party? Not John McCain, not Republican, but Barack Obama and Democrat. So, what exactly does Mr. Obama mean when he talks of “change”?
See, my fellow Republican prisoners? Quit whining. That’s for liberals. We acornvoterfrauded a Republican in for yah with the help of the Euroweenies. Obama Mohammed Hussein Biden Laden —>as Far-Right-Wing as they come! You betcha, Joe! No worries. You should be happy that Bush won his 3rd term.
In fact, I am almost sorry that he has won to be honest. The deception awaiting the world is going to be immense, and ironically Obama, more so than Bush will open the world’s eyes to the true workings of the American government.
More right-wing than Bush? See fellow Republicans? I tell you. You have nothing to worry about. Dubyabama will go on continuing Bush’s Neo-Conservative-Neo-Capitalist-Illegal-War-Mongering-Unilateral-All-American policies that make you hot and bothered. Now, go celebrate and feast on some McCain Smiles.
To all the Americanophobic brain-dead-abortion-survivors living in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South America: It never ceases to amaze me that those who boast expertise on the US are the most ignorant. First off, we are a Constitutional Republic – *NOT* a Democracy even though most people say it is.
For further information as to why more votes didn’t show up for Obama, it is simply because of voter fraud and voting irregularities – which is nothing new in America. I am aghast that the media in your countries don’t cover this. But I’m not surprised as it’s easier to be an Americanophobe when you think Americans were “stupid enough to vote for Bush twice”. The CBC, Der Spiegel, and the BBC are brilliantly manipulative like that. It’s not just Fox News, guys.
As the US “election” draws closer, I find it so frustrating to watch the mainstream Canadian media treat the US circus as if it’s completely legitimate. Not a whisper about fraud, not a mention of disenfranchisement, no context even suggesting that the last two presidential elections were stolen.
I don’t scour the mainstream media, so perhaps I missed some twenty-word paragraph buried on page 23 somewhere, but as far as I can tell, Canadian media act as if the US election is everything it purports to be. The Democrats are liberal, the Republicans are conservative, and whoever gets more votes wins. To quote one of my favourite comedy bits: “Fake, fake, fake, fake.”
Allow me to shed some light. Here are a few good readings:
Maybe you’d like to explain to me why several people hit the Obama button and it registered as a McCain vote? Maybe you’d like to tell me that when people registered to vote, on November 4th, there was no record of them in the system — and why this only happens to Democratic voters?
If you’re going to confidently comment on our politics, one would think that you’d have some knowledge (other than relying on gossip mags, tabloids, unfounded rumors, conspiracy theories, and YOUR OWN biased bullshit media). I am embarrassed for you people. Please educate yourself – especially when you accuse Americans of the same ignorance.
To the Former Egomaniac British Empire Americanophobes: You’re just pissed because you’re not ruling the world any more. Don’t worry, my friends. Obama will more than likely get assassinated. Following that, aside from the riots that will emerge in the streets of the the US, the American Empire will fall. Then you can all rejoice and take over the world again replacing your third-rate power with your born-again-egos. Hopefully from 300 years of bullying the world, you have learned not only from yourselves, but from the yanks as well. When you reclaim your erection, hopefully, you’ll get it right next time. And hopefully before Saudi Arabia takes over YOU!
While the Republicans had the distracted media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history, stealing hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes across the embattled swing states and striving to arrange chaos and endless lines at the voting booths next week.
First the facts about ACORN. Months ago, we obtained, as part of our investigation for Rolling Stone magazine, the Republican’s list the GOP alleged were the very worst cases of vote and registration fraud by ACORN and similar groups. We went through the names the GOP asserted were “obviously, undeniably and clearly fraudulent” voter registrations.
The Progressive Left tells us that they are the party that “cares”, they are set out to seek and hope for the non-Republican ticket to win in every American presidential election so that there is at least one eensie weensie tiny speckle of hope for world peace and a foreign policy that is at least a fraction less unilateral and humanitarian. Am I right? Is this not what the Left stands for?
Well…?
This Leftie surely isn’t. She confidently states on her blog that the Obama president-elect is nothing to be proud of or feel hopeful for. Trust me. I’ve heard from the average Americanophobes. This Sarah Palin wannabee is truly scary. And she also pals around with people who believe that “peaceful protests don’t work”. Well, I guess when you’re protesting for peace, one should be unpeaceful, right?
All over America and the entire world, citizens are cheering the Obama victory as the next POTUS. This was expected and predictable. Why? Because the Left cares about humanity and the future. Naturally, anyone is naive to think that this will be the end of Americanophobia, but for those on the Left that are GENUINELY(that’s the operative word here) concerned about human life, human interests, human rights, and the world are applauding America’s recent election results. Once again, Americans expected this.
BUT (!) Those who reallydon’t care about anybody but themselves and their Americanophobic self-loathing self-pitying agenda are furious.
Why, do you ask? That doesn’t make any sense.
Does it? Obama wins – the world is relieved to say SAYONARA to BushCheney and co. – and an Anti-American is pissed? An Anti-American preferred McPalin to take over?
Just like the title of this post suggests, this chick ain’t your garden variety Americanophobe. In fact, she puts the rest of them to shame. Yes, I said that. She gives those that hate Americans a bad name. Because it’s not about the welfare of the world and its people any more; it’s more about, “Damn, I can’t be as Americanophobic as I was now that Obama has won!” It’s all about the agenda.
Steph-tard and her cohorts(read the comment section) are, oddly enough, bitter because 56,302,960 Americans voted for McCain and Palin – which means 56,302,960 Americans wanted more of the same and believed in illegal wars, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, unilateralism, the Global Warming Hoax, and all of Bush’s policies. As she states it,
But 56,302,960 Americans voted for McCain and Palin. That’s 56,302,960 Americans who believe in the Bush doctrine and think that the surge is working. That’s 56,302,960 Americans who believe in perpetual war in countries they can’t find on the map or pronounce. Which means 56,302,960 will be opposing Obama every step of the way if he tries to end the wars and redefine America’s relations with its “enemies”, like Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Russia and China.
Never mind that 65,102,280 Americans voted for the president that will (hopefully, if he keeps his promises) put an END to (at the very least) half of the corruption that caused unprecedented outrage in both the US and in countries all over the world.
What I had expected to hear from the Americanophobes was a condescending, “Finally, America got it right this time” comment. At least that is expected albeit the smug tone and the ignorance revolving around Bush’s two-time-steal.
The economic crisis, which is worse than the one that caused the Great Depression, the War, and the hatred of the Bush regime, all ought to have contributed to a landslide of historic proportions or at the very least 60/40, but they didn’t. Let the Obama faithful rejoice in a black president if they want but it’s a pretty hollow victory if all that divides him from McCain is 6% of the popular vote.
America! Did you hear that? Put your head between your knees. There is no victory to be proud of. Six percent is nothing to be proud of. Voting in a Democrat that contradicts the Bush regime should have you ashamed of yourselves. Ya hear that? Go get a rope and a chair, apologize to the rest of the world, and kill yourselves… NOW!
And there’s always more to come from the “wise”….
“…all that talk about Obama symbolising change and uniting America was utter rubbish: he hasn’t…”
Oh wow. You mean that Obama’s been the president all this time and I haven’t even noticed?! Please accept my apology in advance. I had mistakenly thought that Obama would begin his presidency from January 20th.
AMERICA? ARE YOU LISTENING? OBAMA IS NOT ABOUT CHANGE. YES. HE IS MORE OF THE SAME. HE IS A BLACK-BUSH!!!! OMG. WE HAVE ALLOWED BUSH TO BEGIN HIS THIRD TERM! EXCEPT THAT HE’S SKINNIER AND HAS A BETTER TAN THIS TIME!!!
This Euroweenie used to be a happy blogger before Obama won. She, without too much interruption, whined, squealed, moaned, griped and groaned loudly and passionately about America and Americans attributing them all to every rumored stereotype possible from all the British tabloids that she read. She buys and uses all the snake oil sold to her without question or challenge. She’s a gullible one, and the poster child for having a bad case of the infantile “blame America first” syndrome coupled with an outstanding lack of curiosity about the world. Devoid of substance and/or facts to back her drivel, she calls herself a maverick too as she says that America is “too partisan”.
But then Senator Barack Obama came along, and her world crashed. Yes. It dived into the ground, nose-first. Worse than that fatal Windows98 blue screen of death. A black man became president. Her world is no more. When Brits should really be concerned about this, this Hitler-apologist-Holocaust-denier is afraid of the African-American Bogeyman that will now take over the world! Oh. The horrors.
And yes, she was the same person that thought our election was rigged. Apparently a secret committee sought out to conspire to have Obama become the next president per “Affirmative Action” laws of some sort. It’s got to be that because I just cannot imagine 63,877,116 Americans all conspiring to vote for “black” instead of “change/hope”. A fraction? Yes. A majority? Nope.
Wow. Just wow. Amazing that people like her are allowed to breed…. Little Steph-tard (the wordpress.com abortion survivor with a keyboard and a lot of hate) is the last person who should be talking about “American Ignorance”. But I just couldn’t resist to share this train wreck with you all. She is definitely a character and one that deserves special attention on my blog because you know, after all, she’s a Maverick.
(psst… never mind the fact that Palin would have made history too if she had won). (Oh, and never mind those who voted for Palin cuz she’s hot, right? Or military wives, Wal-mart-moms, Iraqi-war-supporters and vets who voted for McCain cuz he was a POW, or never mind those who voted for Bush because …oh he was just the likeable kinda guy you could have a beer with. Oh and not to mention all the lesbians and women who voted for Palin just because they wanted to see a female leader having been sexually seduced by her power. And the Democrat Staunch Hillary Supporters that became a traitor to their own political belief system and voted for McPalin instead of “the other guy on the Dem ticket”. Shall I go on about how superfically some people vote while kicking the issues to the curb?
Oh, and these “secretly appointed underground officials” who conspired to make Obama the 44th POTUS out of “Affirmative Action”, for what reason did they do this? Can the self-righteous Americanophobes humor me here?
Do I also need to mention that superficial voting and stupidity isn’t an American phenomenon? From the above it is quite obvious, that the author of this Americanophobic blog is not playing with a full deck and drinking the same kool-aid as Scarah Palin.
It looks like many people are seriously troubled by a Democrat taking office. People are desperately grasping at straws everywhere to find some reason to discredit the victory of a non-Dubya-like president. They just can’t handle it. It is a reality that will never be accepted. Look. If I were on the other side of the table, I’d be depressed. I’m not gonna lie. I’d probably even say people voted with their genitals. I’d say “fuck America, we’re doomed”, and all sorts of dramatic drivel. I may have even given Mr. William Ayers a bootie-call. Who knows? I guess I’m just tired of the race-card still being used IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. Fuck race! I guess I’m also just tired of listening to even more Americanophobic nonsense?
Well, here’s my conspiracy theory. We can already count on the right-wing to continue bitterly clinging to their guns-n-religion, but the Foreign Americanophobic Elitist Leftards are pissed off as all hell about Obama’s win. They truly wanted McPalin to take over the white house so they can have even more ammunition to flex their smug Americanophobic muscles to continue their mindless mob-mentality mud-slinging against random Americans. Liberals in other countries are genuinely happy for us. However, the looney far Left is on top of the conspiracy bandwagon driven’ full speed ahead.
—>And another one:(Left/Right-wing conspiracy)Obama won due to Affirmative Action! Wow! Since similar rhetoric was being spread before Obama won, I wrote this post. You might want to read it as it covers how I feel about these types of statements being made. But Affirmative Action???
Are you kidding me?
Well, you really cannot expect an Americanophobe living in England (that is MUCH more racist than the US ) to understand what Affirmative Action means. For those that don’t get it, let me explain. Affirmative Action is to give everyone such as Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Women, etc. an EQUAL opportunity in the work force, colleges, the film industry, the media, the military, and the like. And the quota-filling is done by authority figures or those hired to do so. Obama won clearly by the people. There were no “designators” or “delegates” that “decided” that they must fill some kind of quota.
And for what reason, anyway, when your average yank is a typical, nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, vulgar, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, self-centered Neanderthal?
For those that think that the vote for Obama was just because he is black, I have a question:Liberal Americans We already know that would have voted along party lines, so we can omit them. What do we have left? We have Republicans and Independent voters. Now, are you people implying that Republicans have abandoned their party just to vote for a black? I can imagine swing voters voting black, but Republicans? Dropping all that they stand for just to get an African American elected? Really? What about the black voters as they were the majority who voted for Obama. Are they the ones you are talking about when you call “racism”? Does this imply that blacks hate their own skin color?
I will continue to update this post whenever the right or the left come up with some juicy and entertaining conspiracy theories. They just aren’t as good as my own conspiracies, I say you.
I think the Americanophobes in other countries are just jealous that America has progressed or taken a step forward, racially speaking — as one of the common stereotypes pinned to Americans is “racist”. They are bloody angry as hell that they cannot say this any more as confidently as they once did. Never mind that racism exists all over the world. Never mind that racism is still alive and well in the US. Never mind that racism will never die. Never mind balance, reason, logic, understanding, and perspective. The Americanophobes want Americans and America to be the evilist existance, and when one stereotype goes a bit blurry, they go into delusional hysterics or like one Canadian guy said, “an identity crisis”.
And screw the Americanophobes in other countries. There’s absolutely nothing America can do to please them, anyway. With that alone, it surely justifies the continuation of selfish unilateralism in foreign policy. This Canadian guy said it best(aside from the digg at Obama):
America could disappear from the face of the earth and the idiots who hate her will still teach that she is evil and to be hated, even for generations.
Obama nor anyone else can change that. 200 years without slavery has not freed black Americans (in their minds) how would one president change a centuries long induction of hatred against a people? I actually think if Osamabama is elected matters will be worsened because the economy of the US will crash and the whole industrialized world will follow. Then people will blame the yanks for that. People are very small minded and I claim no exception. I do however love America and must admit I am quite envious of her and her citizens.
And this:
I am a liberal Democrat. I am happy because a liberal Democrat will be taking office. Duh? I mean, look at my political profile fer allahsakes! But am I “racist” to say that I am also happy for the black people? Am I a racist to say that I cried with white and black people as I watched Obama’s victory? Many African Americans are walking around crying tears of joy. There is something to be happy about other than saying SAYONARA to BushCheney and co. Let’s be realistic here.
Sour grapes are for little kids. Let’s grow a pair of balls and accept reality like adults.
One thing that some of you weren’t realizing is that behind the “YES, WE CAN!” chants were desperate people who genuinely wanted change. Surely on the surface it looked like typical American superficial chanting. Underneath that was pure desperation. This is something that those in other countries will never understand because they didn’t have to live with BushCheney for 8 years. No. Newsflash: Bush didn’t just ruin YOUR country. He has a 23% (a historical low) approval rating in the United States for a REASON!
Here’s a list of people that think YOUR vote for Obama was a racist one:
This just further clarifies what being an Americanophobe is all about. Anti-Americanism began in the 19th century and it’s here to stay, folks. Fuck the Americanophobes. The middle finger really should be pointed at THEM!
With that said, I hope that Obama continues Bush’s unilateral foreign policy. Why should we care when they’re gonna hate us, anyway?
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time… tonight is your answer.” – Barack Obama
I am just happy as hell that Obama claimed his victory tonight! I cried tears of joy. This is the best night I’ve had in a long time. A very happy moment for most Americans.
My favorite posts of other people discussing the election:
Truth: The Obama energy plan allows for drilling offshore, just at a longer distance off shore than McCain would.
Myth: Obama will appoint activists judges who make the law instead of interpreting it.
Truth: The McCain Palin ticket would try to get judges appointed with a desire to overturn Roe v. Wade, which the current decision allows for states to decide on the laws regarding the matter of abortion. That would be making a law against a person’s ability (currently an assumed right by this court decision) to make a choice regarding an unborn child.
Myth: Obama has no experiences as he only served in the sentate for 173 days.
Truth: McCain has more experience as a legislator. He’s also been alive a good 25 years more. Education wise and political writing wise, Barack Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude at Harvard. He has been a professor of Constitutional Law for many years, and also served as president of Harvard’s Law Review. McCain’s educational record was simply being 5th from the bottom at the Naval Academy of Annapolis. If we go based on education here, Obama is the far more qualified candidate, which makes the debate of the candidacy far more viable.
Myth: Obama will institutionalize a socialized national health insurance plan.
Truth: Obama’s plan isn’t a socialized Health care plan, because the government is doing nothing more than regulating the minimum amount of coverage that businesses must supply to their employees, and that no insurance may be denied to a citizen because of pre-existing issues. It’s a health insurance policy that doesn’t touch the health care institutions.
Myth: Obama supports abortion throughout pregnancy.
Truth: Obama supports the right of the States to make their own laws about abortion, legally, as supported by the 9th Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the Supreme Court Precedent of Roe v. Wade which ruled that unborn fetuses weren’t entitled to the rights of a fully living human being.
Myth: Obama will pull the troops out of Iraq immediately.
Truth: McCain hasn’t quite stated when the troops would come home aside from the “Most Americans probably wouldn’t care if we were there 100 years” statement. He just seems clearly intent on the idea that we haven’t succeeded there, and that any sort of phase out of troops would be surrender. Which begs the question: How do you define success in Iraq? Obama has supported, for over a year now, negotiating with the Prime Minister for Iraq, as the Bush administration is now proceeding to do, to put a time table in place for the Iraqi people to take control of their country and get American troops out over an extended period of time. Obama’s plan would start immediately, but would take 18 months to get to his lowest level of troops, which still maintains a base and embassy there.
Myth: Obama doesn’t support gun ownership rights.
Truth: Depends on your definition of gun ownership rights. If you believe it is your right as a one man militia to own whatever automatic firearm you wish, and carry it anywhere and everywhere safety off and unconcealed, then yes, Obama will restrict your rights. But if you believe that it means that you are allowed to own a firearm for the defense of your family (and for those who hunt the enjoyment of the game and the nourishment of meat), and that this doesn’t require you carrying a shotgun, rifle, or semi-automatic pistol around in high population areas, then Obama does support your gun ownership rights, as well as the continued safety of all Americans.
Myth:Obama supports homosexual marriage.
Myth: Obama doesn’t support homosexual marriage.
(Yes, I’ve actually heard both lol)
Truth: For the record, Obama supports civil unions amongst homosexuals, not the title of marriage, which truly is the only issue involved here. He supports civil unions that grant the same kinds of rights ordinarily given to heterosexual marriages, such as shared power of attorney and property, visitation in hospitals, and things of that nature.
Myth: Obama proposed programs will create a huge tax increase.
Truth: Proposed programs of either candidate will ineviatbly lead to higher taxes or the complete and utter bankruptcy of this country. Neither are going to cut spending to any decisive venture, nor will either raise revenue enough to have a government surplus and to really start paying back our national debts.
Myth: Obama’s voting against making English the official language.
Truth: English was never anything more than a defacto official language of America. The founders didn’t believe in a need for the requirement of it, as it in many cases, can be perceived as a violation of free speech. The immigrants who came to this country in the past realized that to get ahead they’d have to be able to communicate with the locals, Immigration levels at this point, however are much higher and so many and most can get the things they want with whatever language they speak. This is not a bad thing, it’s just a change in the culture of America, the kind of constant evolution the Founders would have wanted for this country so that it could keep being a symbol of true freedom.
Myth: Obama voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens.
The far Left will call those not supporting Obama a racist, and the far Right will call those who support Obama a racist because (finger flapping wildly)“You’re only voting for him because he’s black and that’s racist!”. The neocon who said this tries to vindicate himself by saying that he’s black. So, I am supposed to be persuaded by that alone. A black man said that if you vote for Obama, that you’re not voting for him on the issues but rather just to “make history” (never mind the fact that Palin being the first VP will make history). This guy is using his skin-color to validate his point. But he’s just another classic right-wing snake oil salesman.
While I do understand that language evolves, I am stumped by how quickly we can call each other racists without even understanding what it means. Some people need a refresher course. Let’s discover what the word “racism” truly means, shall we?
Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.
Racism has existed throughout human history. It may be defined as the hatred of one person by another — or the belief that another person is less than human — because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes.
Both the far Left and the far Right have it wrong. What they are doing is simply belittling what the victims of TRUE racism went through. And that is shameful that people can take such a word and mangle it to flex their muscles and suit their own political agenda.
America has always been a politically divided country. Now, the divide (no matter who wins) is more bitter and clearer than ever as this is the most important election of a lifetime. We are all sitting on pins and needles.
But be realistic. Whether you like it or not, racism STILL DOES EXIST in America.
And as far as voting is concerned,
Yes, people are voting for Obama JUST BECAUSE HE’S BLACK!
Yes, people are voting *AGAINST* Obama JUST BECAUSE HE’S BLACK!
Yes, people are voting for PalinJUST BECAUSE SHE’S HOT!
Yes, people are voting for Palin JUST BECAUSE SHE’S GOT A VAGINA!
Yes, people are voting *AGAINST* Palin JUST BECAUSE SHE’S GOT A VAGINA!
Like I said before and I’ll say it again, I didn’t vote for Obama superficially. I am voting for him because he’s an extremist homo-loving tax-n-spend Arab Muslim Marxist terrorist born in Kenya who hates America and Americans and has a clear plan to destroy us all. Hey, I love these kind of people! ♥ Obama 2008, baby!
The very last person in the world we’d think would be crying about censorship after having TRIED to ban several innocuous books from a library is now crying us all a river…
Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.
[Snip!]
“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”
The future of America is that should Palin become POTUS, our free speech WILL be taken away because this wussy can’t take any form of criticism whatsoever, and every time she screws up, she conveniently blames the “evil liberal media” so that she doesn’t have to look inward and own up to her own shortcomings.
“It’s sort of perplexing to me, because I’m a practical person and plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I see them, just like most Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the elitism there in Washington,” Palin said.
*sighs* Sweatpea? Calling you out on your blatant lies, hypocrisies, ignorance, and stupidity is not elitist. (And psst… if you’re not a Washington Elitist, your wardrobe shouldn’t be more expensive than my house!) In fact, it mirrors your very own qualities. The media is practical, plain-spoken, cutting to the chase, and calling things as THEY see them just like most Americans. You DO realize that the 1st Amendment protects dissent, right?
The 1st Amendment, Ms. Sarah… shall we spell it out for you? Do you have a pen and a piece of paper handy?
The 1st Amendment addresses what the government cannot do:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Clearly the position of VP is not meant for the squeamish thin-skinned variety of Sarah Palin. She’s too weak. She boasts ad nauseam about the “straight-talker” that she is, yet she cannot handle straight talk back. And she’s not even a “straight talker” anyway as we keep seeing her time after time skirting and dancing around simple questions asked. She is a coward. She is a weak woman who is bringing all women down to the 19th century. She wants to be coddled, and women aren’t coddled any more. Women fought long and hard to get where they are. Modern women are tough and can handle what men can tolerate in any career possible. Palin proves to be a weak link and not the true strong feminine woman that her minions are fooled into thinking she is.
So, it’s not just Palin being weak, ignorant, and mildly retarded herself, but she’s also a hypocrite.
Look.
All the other candidates are taking their criticisms very well. NO exceptions should be made for her because she’s female. She is no princess – although seemingly spoiled rotten (but that’s beside the point). As much as I dislike Bush, he took criticism very well and even had a self-deprecating sense of humor. He didn’t take even himself seriously at times and could actually laugh at himself along with the First TRUELady, Laura Bush. If ya can’t take the heat, get outa the kitchen. And Bush stayed in the kitchen because he could handle it. I mean, damn! Look how mature McCain is being about endorsing Barack Obama! Whoa!
Psst. When something doesn’t go your way, instead of looking inward at the bad choices that you’ve made and owning up to them, take the easy way out: Blame the Dems and the media. The Neo-Conservative Republicans have mastered this like no other.
To hear up close and personal what Palin’s sympathy cries sound like, watch this video.
Returning back to Palin’s hypocrisy…. Let me remind my readers again that the same advice she gave Ms. Hillary Clinton, she cannot take herself.
I am embarrassed for Sarah Palin. Does anyone else feel the same?
The Neocon victim card is working frighteningly overtime on this one.
First off, how the hell is JTP a hero? Do we know what the word, “hero” means?
It was JTP’s C-H-O-I-C-E to be in the P-U-B-L-I-C EYE. Personal responsibility, anybody?
Now, he’s out of work? This non-contracted plumber who doesn’t pay his taxes, and can’t afford to buy the business that he was claiming to do is now *gasps* out of work(isn’t that a liberal thing?), and to top if off, he wants to be a congressman? Are you kidding me???
And now the Republicans who loathe the unemployed with their hands out accepting a free ride are actually collecting funds for JTP’s welfare?
SAY
IT
ISN’T
SO,
JOE
Dear Neo-Republican America, what’s the difference between those people purchasing homes making a mistake leading themselves to be had by predator lenders and JTP who made the mistake of making his questions to Obama PUBLIC not thinking of the risks he was taking in doing so?
Remember, we’re not talking about SOCIALISM here, we’re talking about personal responsibility.
Next, what’s the difference between Hurricane Katrina Victims who didn’t bail out fast enough to avoid the storm and JTP who not only talked in front of news cameras but continued to lengthen his 15 minutes of fame by talking to the media again, and again, and again and not realizing what he was getting himeself into?
Listen closely. When you decide to put yourself out there into the public eye, you must accept to be hated, loved, and talked about often. You must accept everything a celebrity must go through. You must have a thick skin and be able to take criticism even if they arefalse rumors!! I mean, isn’t this the advice that Palin gave to Hillary Clinton? Now if this Joe plumber dude cannot find work, it’s nobody fault but his own. Nobody put a gun to his head and told him to appear in front of nation-wide television cameras.
And he still hasn’t stopped talking to the media. Hmm….
Joe the Plumber, you and your cohorts are not victims. Sorry. You made choices. Accept them, and take responsibility for yourself along with the rest of us. Isn’t that what you tell the Dems to do, after all? And isn’t this why you support tax cuts for the rich? —>For “personal responsibility” sake? If you’re going to preach ad nauseam about personal responsibility, why not lead by example?
Oh, and look who was on welfare!
Republican hypocrisy at its finest!
Psst. When something doesn’t go your way, instead of looking inward at the bad choices that you’ve made and owning up to them, take the easy way out: Blame the Dems and the media. The Neo-Conservative Republicans have mastered this like no other.
In my town, we can take advantage of “early voting”.
And I voted for…..
Out of all the terrorists and terrorist sympathizers to choose from, he’s my favorite *on the issues*. I am not one of those mindless drone-like cheerleaders of Obama, contrary to popular belief of those who observe the Obama supporters and their chants. Yes, there are actually people out there that take this election seriously. I care about my country with just as much fevor as my conservative compatriots.
I read the websites of all these candidates. I favor Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, and Obama. All three of these individuals are capable of satisfying my wishes in some way or another.
I am realistic. And I hope my fellow comrades are as well. No matter who gets elected president,
Nobody is going to be perfect,
All of them will screw up at some point in time,
And finally, NO president can please everyone.
People need to get over the fact that just because someone’s occupation is “president” that they will be “superman”.
With that said, if Obama wins, I am very well prepared that I will not like everything that he says, stands for, and does. However, if you take a peek at my political profile, you will very well know why I voted for Obama over the other choices I had.
There is no Messiah. There is no God. So, get over it, people. We just need this country fixed. I’d like to think that most of us have good intentions for this country when we put our vote in. Most of us agree that there are serious problems with the US. However, we don’t all agree on THE WAY to fix our country and improve foreign policy to suit the needs of those living in other countries.
Anyway people, please, please, please… get out and VOTE. Even if you think your vote isn’t going to count. Even if you think “the man” is going to win or lose anyway. Even if you hate all the candidates. Read their websites and DECIDE!!!! Voting is your duty as an AMERICAN CITIZEN! Get off of your lazy bums, stop making excuses, stop the smears and the vinegar pissing for ONE DAY and VOTE WITH PRIDE – even if it’s for the wrong one.
Under McCain’s plan, a family is given a $5000.00 tax credit. Ooooh. But if you’re single or don’t have kids, you only get $2,500.00. Your employer gets taxed under McCain’s plan which means that the overall costs of your insurance (if you think it’s bad now) is going to go up! Now, if you are the type of person that gets a cold once every two years and indigestion once a year, you should be fine. But if you have complex and/or serious medical problems, you are (as they say in France)shit out of luck.
If you are currently unemployed, looking for a job, in between jobs or whatnots, and you are looking for an insurance company with pre-existing health problems, once again, you’re shit out of luck.
Obama isn’t proposing a UHC (Universal Health Care) program. He’s realistic enough to realize that it doesn’t work – especially in the US. It doesn’t really work just right all the time in Canada either. What may work for us is a private-public system that is in Europe. France is rated for having the best health care in the world. And they have the closest system to ours, believe it or not. The only difference is that for those who have pre-existing conditions that can’t afford health care, it is available as Medicare is available right now for the elderly.
The majority of Americans have health care (over 250 million). Those people wouldn’t be effected. They will be able to get the best quality care because they can afford it. However, those who don’t have insurance, will be able to receive it at a lower cost and without having to worry about pre-existing conditions as a road block.
I am open to the possibility that I may be wrong as to whether the French health care system would be fitting for the US, but just to pick your brains, what do you think about this information?
Are you worried about “slavery” aka Socialism? We are already somewhat socialized if you look at the police, the fire department, public schools, school buses, the ER for those with no health care, the military, the president, the senate, the house, the department of state, the local government, the mayors, the city council, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Disability, the VA, Welfare, Public Library, The Judicial System, Roads, highways, traffic lights, jails, and prisons.
All that’s coming out of my taxes too!
I used to live in Japan where they had nationalized medicine and I was very pleased with the service. Quality service – that is. People in Europe claim to find that nurses and doctors are nicer and helpful. It’s easy for me to believe, and here’s why.
I have multiple medical problems. And the meanest, most absent-minded, ignorant and bitter people I’ve ever met were those in the medical community. Not to place all medical professionals under the same umbrella, but I’m certainly not the only one to notice that only half of the time can I find someone who knows their stuff and won’t treat you disrespectfully. I am talking from 40 years of experience. Now, with common everyday issues like having a cold – that’s a different story. But if you’ve got a complex problem, things are difficult here. You win top notch care if you have a PPO and some money in savings. You lose if you have an HMO with barely any money to spare regardless of how hard you’re working. HMO = Help Me Obtainqualitycare, in case you didn’t know.
I pay taxes for other people’s care. But I want to pay taxes for other people’s care. Why? Because if I run into trouble, I want them to care for me. I find that system more civilized – civilized being the operative word here.
Naturally, too much of anything is bad. But don’t you agree something needs to be done about our system?
I believe that you would find (and this theory is quite borne out throughout history) that if people are free, they WILL take care of one another. And the care will be much better than you can ever dream of getting from forced labor from the impersonal government.
According to Orge and many other conservatives, the above is their philosophy.
I replied…
Aaah… I see what you mean, but I just don’t trust my fellow man to come through for me if I can’t afford a surgery that will save my life or if I’m dependent on dialysis. I think we are a cut-throat dog-eat-dog society of jaded people who, for the most part, only think of themselves. Kind of a pessimistic way of thinking, isn’t it? But that’s how I see too many people. It’s taking a risk to wait for someone to come through for you or to even ask for help – which is very humiliating!!
The Fear of the Unknown: Will private charities really come through for me when my family won’t?
I mean, even as our society exists today, there are many genuinely helpless people out there dying and rotting away from our current system. Private charities are great, but they are either usually donated overseas or to those who attend church regularly.
I fear that if all socialist programs were to die out, the quality of life for those making low wages will get even worse. How do you expect people to be productive at work if their health is running ragged? You don’t have to be dying of cancer to call out a low quality of life. Sometimes it could just be someone who cannot afford their insulin that will get lost in the shuffle. And once again, I’m talking about people who work for a living!
While I was living in Japan, I had root canal done. I got excellent care and service (the Japanese are updated with America). The cost for all three visits were about 40-50-ish dollars total. My aunt had root canal done in NY for 950.00 out-of-pocket! But even if her root canal had cost 400 dollars, that’s nothing like what I paid for excellent service in Japan. I went to college with the Japanese and every time one had a problem with their teeth, it was more cost-effective for them to fly back to Japan to get their dental work done!
We only think that we have the best quality health care in the world because
Someone else said so, and
Because people from other foreign countries come here for care
Fair enough. People fly to M.D. Anderson in Houston, TX from different parts of the world to receive treatment for cancer, brain surgery, and heart problems because it’s the best. We’ve got the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, and all sorts of medical facilities that top the charts with the best quality doctors in the world. And that’s true. People come here from all over the planet to our universities to get degrees and get trained in the medical field. We are allowed to boast about this. But! What many don’t realize is that most Americans cannot afford care at these top notch facilities. Their HMO’s require them to only see doctors on their respective lists. So, naturally, they’ve got dolts taking care of them. Oh yeah. Every once in a while, an HMO doctor will know his stuff and actually send you off for tests despite how taboo it is. (They actually get bonuses if they don’t often send patients to specialists or for tests if necessary.)
Yes, in the “Greatest Country on God’s Green Earth”!
France may be in economic hard times, but the US economy is worse as at least with us, it’s trickled down to the people. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer doesn’t say too much about our economy, does it? The extinction of the middle class mirrors that of developing countries. Even “socialist” Canada is doing better than the US economically.
If “slavery” was truly what other countries were experiencing under a private-public health care system, wouldn’t you think they’d be unhappy people? If you think they are all miserable people, the statistics beg to differ.
I have something to compare America to: Japan. I even got better treatment over there for just having a fever. In Japan, they gave me a shot. The fever went away instantly, and I was able to return to work. In the US, you take aspirin and pray that it goes away fast. Sometimes you’re in bed for a few days. Even those “flu pills” take forever to kick in. Not in Japan. Like all other countries, Japan’s system wasn’t perfect. You realistically have to expect something wrong with every system out there. But if you ask me, to say America’s system is flawed would be an understatement. Why do you think others all over the world mock our system? Becaues they’re jealous? I hear testimony after testimony from those living abroad (in other 1st world countries) that they are happy with their care. Could they be lying?
Canadians sometimes visit us. So, instead of waiting for 3 months to get an MRI, they come to the US to get it done within a week. If you have Cushings Disease, America’s the place to be, but our HMO’s don’t pay for those specialists who give the best treatment here. I am in remission from Cushings disease right now, so I know many people who have it. My friend cannot get her brain surgery to cure the disease because she has to pay out of network for the specialists and the best neurosurgeons as they are few are far between here. She doesn’t have the money. And she’s getting sicker and sicker.
Some people from the US go to Germany, Japan, Mexico and other countries to get dental work and surgeries done.
I really think our government’s wanting to take away socialized services is not because they care about our freedom but because they want the money for themselves to “nationalize” with. Look how our elite classes are catered to hand and foot, but the little people must mind “personal responsibility”. Why can’t everyone be personally responsible? Or. Why can’t everyone be socialized?
I honestly don’t think our government cares about the welfare of its citizens.
I just ask myself – why are Americans complaining about health care, and those in other countries aren’t? You have to look at the complaint rate in all other developed countries.
Something needs to be done here, and McCain’s health plan depresses me in more ways than one.
…or is he just simply not giving a tax break to those who make over $250.000 a year?
Here’s the Republican answer:
Tax cuts for the rich = patriotism, social responsibility, freedom, pro-Americanism, money trickling down to little man, USA USA USA,
No tax cuts for the rich = socialism, communism, fascism, slavery, anti-Americanism, Adolf Hiter,
Do any of you know what socialism IS?
Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party is that the bottom was scraped clean long before it dropped out. Back when the polls were nip and tuck and the leaves had not yet begun to turn, Barack Obama had already been accused of betraying the troops, wanting to teach kindergartners all about sex, favoring infanticide, and being a friend of terrorists and terrorism. What was left? The anticlimactic answer came as the long Presidential march of 2008 staggered toward its final week: Senator Obama is a socialist.
Read the rest about what is really inside the Republican Kool-aid here.
How is this stuff the taxpayers responsibility? Surely enough, Democrats make unnecessary purchases and make us taxpayers fork over the dough too. But seriously, if we’re going to disparage Obama for being a Russian-flag-waving Socialist, I am sure there are plenty of GOP members that are no less Socialist than Obama.
Hurricane Katrina, when hundreds of thousands needed help, Republican bloggers were saying that they should be on their own and how selfish it was for the victims to expect local, state, and federal governments to bail them out. But…! Nationalizing American banks to bail bankers out for their mistakes is perfectly fine?
Hurricane Katrina and The Wall Street Market Crashes are synonymous because they both made mistakes, right? Well, at least that is what the neocons say….
See, it’s okay to nationalize (socialism) our elite, political officials, and Wall Street bankers, but for those working class people who REALLY need help? Then, it’s all about how we should be “personally responsible”.
Redistributing the wealth is taboo in the US with the exception of special interests groups.
Sarah Palin keeps saying ad nausem that she wants to put the government back on the side of THE PEOPLE. How exactly does she plan to do this if she’s going to be forcing the working class people to continue bailing out Uncle Sam, the BIG CORPORATE GIANTS and other special interests groups of the ELITE?
(Yes, Neo-Conservatives can be ELITE too.)
You are naive to believe that she really has the Joe Six-Packs in mind.
One can certainly argue that if all the Joe Plumbers fund the BIG HAIRY FAT CATS that run America, that the wealth will trickle down to the Joe Six-Packs. But has it? Has it under GWB? Where is it? How can we ensure that all of these elite CEOs are using their tax cutswisely and making their profits trickle down to the people? How can we ensure that they’re just not spending their profits on buying more homes, more cars, more yachts, more plasma TVs, more clothes from Neiman Marcus, more private jets, and more weekend trips to Paris?
Yes. They deserve a profit for their own personal lifestyles, but the neocons keep saying that tax cuts ensure job creation, worker benefits, better salaries, and to keep the middle-class from extinction. They can’t do that if they are spending too much of their profits on minutiae.
Back to Socialism.
If you wanna use the dirty sacrilegious “S” word, we are already SOCIALISTS. Here are some examples of American Socialism:
The police
The fire department
Public schools
School buses
Emergency Care in hospitals for those without insurance
The Military
The president, the senate, the house, the department of state
The local government, the mayors, the city council,
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Disability, the Veterans Administration, Welfare
The Public Library
The Judicial System
Roads, highways, traffic lights, etc
Jails, prisons, half-way houses, homeless shelters, shelters for abused women
Do you want to get rid of all that too?
Dear Neo-Capitalist Conservatives, do you really want to resort to a caveman-survival of the fittest-primitive society in a planet where even 3rd world countries would have it better if we resorted that THAT?
What about Charity? Can we really trust charity organizations when most of them send money overseas and to only those within their own churches? Must I trust my fellow man to come through for me when I’m working two jobs, holding down a family and need to live on dialysis?
My fellow prisoners, this is why the hyper-patriotic celebrity craze over Joe the Plumber is foolish. And the hype is bought by only fools. It’s nothing but a well-planned ploy by the McPalin administration to somehow “prove” Obama is a “Socialist”.
SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.
State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.
“I am not a Republican,” insisted Karen Ashcraft, 47, a pet clinic manager from Ventura who said she was duped by a signature gatherer into joining the GOP. “I certainly . . . won’t sign anything in front of a grocery store ever again.”
YPM, a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition. YPM denies any wrongdoing. Similar accusations have been leveled against the company elsewhere.
Voters using touch-screen voting machines for early voting in two West Virginia counties have complained that when they tried to vote for Democratic candidates, the machine registered their vote for other Republican candidates instead.
At least three voters in Jackson County, West Virginia, complained that when they tried to cast a vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the machine recorded a check in the box for Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
One of the voters reported the same problem in the governor and state senate races. In each case, the voter tried to cast a vote for a Democratic candidate, but the machine marked his vote for the Republican challenger instead. Another voter who tried to cast votes for two state Supreme Court candidates said the machine cancelled one of her choices twice before it finally accepted her selection.
Hmmm….. “Isolated cases”…”human error”…, eh?
More Republican Voter Fraud (just when you think it couldn’t get any worse!)
John McCain’s campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states.
According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of “registering voters.” The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – The Web site of the Ohio state agency that handles voter registration and other election information was shut down briefly after it was hacked, an official said on Tuesday, vowing to guard against fraud in the key battleground state in the November 4 presidential contest.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said the agency temporarily took the Secretary of State Web site at www.sos.state.oh.us down on Monday after “one or more” security breaches were detected.
About 56% of the U.S. population uses optical-scan machines, which are less error prone than older types like lever machines. Newer electronic touchscreens, giving many states their green color, are the least prone to voter mistakes.
The voting machine you’ll encounter on Nov. 4 takes the most important right in a democracy — your right to vote — and makes it real. And just like the people who make and use them, machines aren’t perfect. DVICE has researched all of the nation’s voting machines to tell you what technology you’ll be using on Election Day and what potential problems and vulnerabilities it might have. Click here for a detailed explanation of how we rated every state’s machines.
And don’t think for one moment that just because a fraudulent action was discovered at the voting booths in the US that it will change the results. Remember Election 2000? It was proven that Al Gore won both the popular vote and the electoral vote. Nothing changed. They let Bush stay. Who is “they”. They are the richest and the most powerful. They are the GOP.
…asks hurt and offended Sarah Palin regarding the questions that Katie Couric asked her. The reason why Ms. Palin dodged and danced around every question asked was (according to “Pro-American” Sarah Palin herself) because they were questions that “didn’t matter” and because she felt threatened by the “liberal media”. Regarding the question, “What newspapers do you read?“: She then goes on saying that if she named a certain newspaper that she read, that she’d be mocked for that. The “straight talker” also blamed her inability to answer any questions based on the fact that she is not a part of the “Washington Elite”.
Sarah Palin is very sensitive to criticism.
Sarah Palin says her faith has been mocked by the media. Awww….. Won’t anyone give that poor woman a break?
But hey. Hold it right there, Ms. Palin, while you tell the whole world that the “gotcha journalism” just gotcha: Aren’t you the same person who told Hillary Clinton to get a grip and stop whining about the criticism that revolved around her?
If you want to talk about “flip-flopping” on the issues, one must try this for size:
How about this quote from 2007?
Nor is it snobbish, let alone sexist, to express doubts about someone who, as late as March 2007, could tell Alaska Business Monthly, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place.” This statement deserves to be called mindless, because, first, it is made up of stale and received and overheard bits and bobs from everyday media babble and, second, because you cannot really coherently say that you support both the administration and an “exit plan.”
Ya gotta love her.
Read more Scarahpalinisms here. Oh wait. It’s from the “liberal media”, so it’s all a lie.
And ya gotta love the GOP. Every time something doesn’t go just their way, they blame it on the “liberal media”. Hey, it’s a great scapegoat!
By the way, aren’t the Neo-conservatives supposed to be the party of “personal responsibility”? Hmm…
On a lighter note, this is the funniest damn piece of comedy that I’ve seen in a long time: (See it in full screen here.)
Note to readers:By my mere mentioning of the horrible GOPtarded ways, I am also secretly implying that all-things-liberal are the best ever, have a shiny clean record, never lie, never twist, and are the most righteous on the planet.
Just like they accuse the liberals for, they are buying the snake oil too – and more of it. Yes, the neocons are buying the snake oil. They are living in a la-la-land-o-denial. Some of these people are racists and some of them aren’t. But all of them are dumb and ignorant. And as soon as they lose their insurance under McCain’s plan (that they refuse to see the reality of), they’ll be the first to whine. The red states will move further into poverty reaping what they sew.
The Americanophobes say we’re not all too different from the Fundamentalist Muslims. They have a point with the exception of the level of violence and the oppression of women. Other than that, our right wing fundaMENTAL Christianophiles are no different from “The Wild-Eyed-Arabs” they’re trying to “protect us from”.
We are repeating exactly what we fought against: The British Empire.
My fellow prisoners, these are the people that make Americans look like wackos. Here are some videos of the Lunatic Red State Fringe that’ll make you cringe:
The Ugly Americans Part I
The Ugly Americans Part II
The Ugly Americans Part III
The Ugly Americans Part IV
The Ugly Americans Part V
The Ugly Americans Part VI
The Ugly Americans Part VII
[Al Jazeera video removed. I am curious if the red state radicals finally get my point now?]
Why do the polls look so good right now? It’s because these red state confederate flag-waving inbred zealots don’t have the BALLS to tell the pollsters on the phone that they’re voting for McSame!
Now, my contributors and I have spent a fair amount of time talking about what is good in America…
and more if you look at the rest of my topics on Americanophobia. I feel like I am the only American out there that kicks ass when it comes to fighting bigoted opinions about the American people. The Americanophobes, instead of referring to the extremists, lump all Americans under the same umbrella. I rail against that.
But this is an appropriate time for me, these days, to talk about what is REALLY wrong with America. But to be fair, I think that about half of us are good and half of us are bad regardless of political orientation. It’s just that the bad people here are so much nosier and easier to see. And it is very tempting, even for myself, to exaggerate how truly sickening they are because of my own inabilities to calm my annoyances with them.
See, this is why the neocons (generally) have a reputation for being “happier” and “more positive”. Do you ever stop to wonder why? It is because they, as a defence/survival mechanism, live in denial. The liberals, on the other hand, comparatively are more cynical and live in reality. Liberals are happy too. They live like everyone else. It’s just that when the shit hits the fan, they’d say, “I see shit!” whereas the neocons would say, “What shit?”. A liberal would rub their nose it in, and the neocon response would be, “Hey, whatever this is, smells good.” A liberal would roll their eyes and then clean it up. Why? Because liberals (not the extreme left) are always trying to clean up America with their priorities on education, reading, civil rights and liberties, equal rights – you know — everything FDR was all about (social security, Americans Disability Act ect). You know, those same things that our red states milk the hell out of that their future Palin administration will take away little by little by little……
If the Scarah Palin administration takes over (and it will), America will be what the movie, “Idiocracy” dictated.
CALEDONIA, Wis. — Police in Caledonia are investigating the assault of a campaign volunteer as she was canvassing for Senator Barack Obama Saturday afternoon.
In an exclusive interview with 12 News, 58 year-old Nancy Takehara of Chicago says she was going door-to-door when she came across a disgruntled homeowner.
“The next thing I know he’s telling us we’re not his people, we’re probably with ACORN, and he started screaming and raving,” Takehara said. “He grabbed me by the back of the neck. I thought he was going to rip my hair out of my head. He was pounding on my head and screaming. The man terrified me.”
Someone slashed the tires of at least 30 vehicles parked outside the Crown Coliseum on Sunday during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, authorities said.
Sheriff’s deputies are investigating. The tires were cut while people were inside the Crown Coliseum listening to speeches, said Maj. E. Wright of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
Many of the damaged vehicles were parked on Wilkes Road. Representatives from Obama and Sen. John McCain’s campaigns said they were unaware of the acts.
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“This is an embarrassment to this city and to me as a citizen,” Revis said. “I’ve seen women out here crying and men cussing. This is a crying shame.”
Lynne Steenstra said she thought that the slashings were scare tactics designed to keep her and others from supporting Obama.
Even though it cost her roughly $120 to get her Dodge Caravan towed and fixed, Steenstra said the act would not intimidate her from voting.
“It hasn’t deterred us one bit,” Steenstra said. “It has only encouraged us more. I just hope whoever did this pays the price.”
It amazes me how people think that this will make liberals convert to conservationism. If anything, it has the opposite effect!
CULLOWHEE – A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said.
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Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police.
“It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” Johnson said.
Once again. Why don’t I think Obama’s going to win? The Blue voice said it best.(Oh, how biased of meeee!)
We all know that as the desperate GOP contends with the very real possibility of losing this election and losing it big, the dirtier and sleazier they will play.
First off, the US has never been a Democracy (close, but no cigar), but for all that it’s worth (if you thought that our Electoral Voting System was corrupt, this is equally worse or even more so).
A survey of 10 swing states suggests Florida, Georgia and Virginia may have the most problems on Election Day.
As election officials brace for record-breaking voter turnout on Election Day, a close examination of voting preparedness in 10 swing states shows that significant problems in the basic functions of the American election administration system persist, and in a few cases have worsened over the last few years, a new report by Common Cause and The Century Foundation shows.
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“While some states have taken steps to improve their election procedures, several still have a number of structural and statutory weaknesses that put voting rights at risk once again this year,” said Tova Wang, Common Cause’s vice president, a Century Foundation fellow and the report’s author. “In an election that we hope and expect will see unprecedented turnout, we are hopeful that steps can still be taken to make the election process a fair one for all Americans.”
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As hundreds of thousands of new voters have been added to the registration rolls just in the last few months, one troubling finding is that problems with voter registration issues in many instances have gone unaddressed, or even worsened in the surveyed states. Many states have flawed procedures for matching the information voters give them when they register with other state databases, and some have no established protocols for doing so at all. Uniquely, Florida will continue to require that prospective voters prove eligibility by providing the exact information that appears on existing state databases. This policy often results in rejections of valid registered voters if the voter provides a variant of his or her name instead of a full name, a clerical error is made on the election administration side, or a voter makes another minor mistake.
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Another problem in 2006 was state laws made it too easy to challenge a voter on a slim basis. The most famous example of this was the challenge to 35,000 voters’ eligibility to vote in Ohio prior to Election Day. There are already indications that with all the new voters registering, challenges to eligibility will be a major issue again this year. None of the seven states reviewed in this report have changed their laws since 2006 to lessen the chances of this occurring, and of the three new states included, Colorado and New Mexico have acceptable, though not ideal provisions to handle challenges to voters, while Virginia’s is fairly troubling.
The neocons have no problem listening to phone sex of private citizens in the name of “The Patriot Act”. So, Big Brother is OK there. But god forbid we universalize our election system. That would be too Communist and too “Big Government” for our leaders to take charge. With that said, the neocons need to quit whining about ACORN and “voter fraud” since they don’t support a federalization of one of our most basic, fundamental and important processes!
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sometimes, it pays to be pokey. Going slow has paid the state of New York about $27 million and counting. New Hampshire and Oklahoma, too, are sitting on a pile of federal money.
How did it happen? After the contested 2000 presidential recount, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, giving about $3 billion to states to replace old punch-card and lever voting machines. A lot of states, including California, Ohio and Florida, plunked down vast sums of money to buy shiny new machines, many of which were quickly deemed unreliable and mothballed.
America is beginning to look more and more like a third world country in my eyes:
No democracy regarding the voting process
Becoming a third rate economy and depending on other nations to clean up after our messes
Our Health Scare
Our products and food are losing quality day by day
The diminishing of the middle class
No separation of church and state (can’t become a president here unless you are a Christian)
Freedoms being stripped away from the Left and Right Wing
If you examine the above, those are qualities of living in 3rd world countries.
Soon, we’ll be jumping the fence to find solace in Mexico, Cuba (by way of Mexico), and parts of South America. Sounds funny now, but just give it another few decades, and you’ll see.
We all know how GWB *DIDN’T* get elected in 2000 (or I’d at least like to hope). The below comment that I just found in the status updates that belonged to one of my friend’s friends on Facebook depressed the hell out of me.
If she had been paying attention, she would know that Florida is one of the critical borderline battleground states where the vote counts THE MOST. My face wound up in my hands when I read this. Normally, I laugh at such ridiculousness, but this time, I really wanted to cry. And her six year old is going to choose for her – eenie-meenie-miney-moo-catch-a-tiger……??? *sighs* This is the second person I found with such an attitude. It surprises me because this person is an upper-middle-class individual with a HIGHER education and is a lawyer to boot.
It is this very attitude that got the dumbest man on earth elected in 2004.
I think that it should be a requirement to watch the movie, “Idiocracy” before voting. Because it’s those that don’t pay attention to what’s going on and those who really don’t give a fuck that are running this country into the ground by its nose!
Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
Excuse my French, but what the fuck is wrong with these people??? Out of 300 million Americans in the US, there’s got to be at least 200 million eligible voters. Please tell me these doorknobs who don’t care about who becomes PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES are the minority.
Tomorrow, go vote. If you stay home tomorrow and don’t vote, then shut the fuck up until the next election. Don’t you dare utter one whiney-ass bitch or moan about the way of the world. Make your voice heard. Cast your vote and express your conscience.
Know, if you’re a parent, that your kids and their kids will be paying for the Iraq war. The current administration could give a flying fuck about the cost in human life or to the next generation – they’ll be dead by the time this debacle is paid for.
Disclaimer: Dumb people = Bush voters = that’s not what I’m saying. Apathetic people = Dumb = voting for Bush ‘cuz he’d be more fun to have a beer with and he just had that “straight-talk-effect” that dumb people are seduced by.
DEAR AMERICANS,
GET OFF OF YOUR ASSES AND VOTE
FOR WHO REPRESENTS YOUR ISSUES THE MOST.
DON’T NOT VOTE BECAUSE YOU THINK HE’S GOING TO WIN, ANYWAY.
VOTE REGARDLESS!
IN CASE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT ON NOVEMBER 4TH,
LOOK UP “EARLY VOTING” IN YOUR AREA
AND VOTE ON A DIFFERENT DAY PRIOR! DON’T MAKE EXCUSES.
THIS IS THE WORST TIME IN YOUR LIFE TO PICK A DAY TO BE LAZY,
Call it a whine or a perceived whine or whatever. This is CLASSIC right wing whining!
And how un-woman-like of Winkmaster Sarah Palin, the Female Sancho Panza (the same person who railed against Hillary’s “whining”). Scarah Palin is so wrong on so many levels here:
She cannot tell the difference between supporters and protesters.
She clearly cannot take criticism.
She’s trying to stifle the “perceived protesters” in the name of Jesus“our men fought for your right to protest” bla bla bla.
By Powerhouse Palin’s own words…
I would hope at least that those protesters have the courage and the honor of thanking our veterans for giving them the right to protest.
Um Palin? Psst…
What does protesting have anything to do with not appreciating who gave us that right?
If they fought for us to have this freedom, why, then, can’t we use it?
My recent results of having taken a political questionnaire. So, here is my political compass.
To take the test and compare your results with me, click here.
The results of past leaders: Many people confuse Hitler with Stalin. Hitler tried to sell socialism only to get the vote and gain control over his people. While he did open up his socialist-bag-o-tricks and save the German economy during the depression, once he had the trust of the German people in the palm of his hands, his true right wing character let loose. Hitler then executed is well-planned mission. Hilter was a right-wing nut-job. People who deny this are only trying to make you think liberals are all blood-sucking tie-dye wearing, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart, communist Arab terrorists that like dictators and no freedom. And they also call Hitler a right-winger to color pink the Bush administration’s poo. Conservatives till this day, still think Hitler was a hardcore leftist when it was actually Stalin.
What’s going on in the rest of the world.
When we look at Election 2008 in the US, here’s what the candidates look like on the map on the larger scale.
Notice where the Palin Administration is compared to Obama. Look closely at who wants more government and who wants less.
For more information as to where I stand politically, you can find my political profile here. What sucks about being a moderate is that you will always be called one of two things: (well, at least by the extremists, anyway)
a left-wing nut job … OR
a right-wing nut job
Anyway, please post your political compass results right here in the comment section!
You know how I feel? I don’t care if Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama and his friends are terrorists! Terrorist Barack Mohammed Hussein Obamawill be better than Palin/Bush any day of the week, my fellow prisoners. Bring it on! Our country needs a counterbalance to the extremism from the Bush administration over the last eight years. I’m fed up.
Did Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama lie about Bill Ayers?
Voters may differ in how they see Ayers, or how they see Obama’s interactions with him. We’re making no judgment calls on those matters. What we object to are the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempts to sway voters – in ads and on the stump – with false and misleading statements about the relationship, which was never very close. Obama never “lied” about this, just as he never bragged about it. The foundation they both worked with was hardly “radical.” And Ayers is more than a former “terrorist,” he’s also a well-known figure in the field of education.
Are three former Fannie Mae executives “economic advisers” to Obama?
No, claims made in a chain e-mail are false. Jim Johnson advised on non-economic matters but quit after a week. Franklin Raines says he took a “couple of calls” but was never an adviser. We find no evidence Tim Howard ever had a connection to the Obama campaign.
What about Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama’s association with ACORN and voter fraud?
I still have yet to hear how Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama is directly connected to voting fraud. Additionally, Republicans have no right to talk about cheating as they had blood on their hands in the 2000 election and in the 2008 election AGAIN where they are trying to keep those who have lost their homes from voting!
There’s another blogger’s opinion which I highly recommend. Please read “On Voter Fraud”. Especially if you think Voter Fraud is a Liberal phenomenon. Oh, and never mind the fact that McCain is ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH ACORN!
Speaking of Anti-Americanism, could Winkmaster SARAH PALIN, the Female Sancho Panza, be considered Anti-American based on this?
Ever wonder why the conservatives are so hush hush quiet about this?
It is this Pentecostal association that most concerns and confuses the McCain campaign. As Minnery makes clear, millions of Evangelicals have accepted Palin because of her membership in a Bible church. But there is no denying that mainstream Evangelicals and Pentecostals, while political allies on many social issues, have historically had significant tensions over theological differences. The Evangelicals’ swoon for Palin might fade if it turns out that she continues to hold fast to Pentecostal practices and beliefs.
So what exactly is Pentecostalism, and could it really pose a political problem for Palin? Here’s a brief TIME primer on the religious tradition that is such a touchy subject for the McCain campaign:
Rest the rest of this controversial story here. (2 pages)
Oh, that’s old news about McCain and his terms of endearment with The Keating Five… or is it? Yes, if you’re going to talk about Anti-American connections, this must be mentioned as well.
Looks like all these candidates have some “stuff”. It’s up to you to determine whether or not their “stuff” will effect how they will run the country or whether their “stuff” is valid or not. I would like to think that whether it be Palin, McCain, Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama, or Biden — that we judge THEM and not their “friends”. For some people, that will be a lot harder to do as both sides are getting pretty desperate, aren’t they? What a concept. Judging the actions of an actual candidate? Can the people do it? Can people even reach beyond the surface and see what is there aside from hairdos, accessories, height, weight, gender, race, accents, hobbies, lipstick, rumor, chain-emails etc? Can people venture the conservative opinion and the liberal opinion and think for themselves?
P.S. Just when you think things couldn’t get any weirder, Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama is suddenly being charged for having connections with Charles Manson.
P.S.S. Things are STILL getting weirder. Now, Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama is being charged by a grassroots organization for being a Kenyan – not a natural born US citizen despite proof of his being born in the USA.
To the Americanophobic moonbat knee-jerk reactionaries abroad, you now have a friend.
The Americanophobic Leftards in Canada, Europe, Latin America, New Zealand, and Australia will absolutely LOVE this video. Get out your pom poms and chant with your friend, Winkmaster Sarahcuda, the Female Sancho Panza.
Oct. 7, 2008 | “My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at hand.”
This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.
Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that’s the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (“Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.”)
The AIP actually reminds me of the Americanophobic Canadian Action Party that is calling (unsuccessfully, mind you) for an independent Canada so that they don’t have to depend on the US any longer. I think the Canadian Action Party and the Alaskan Independence Party should merge. How convenient since they are so close to each other in proximity too. Not Russia-close, but you know what I mean. Their messages are similar:
The Canadian Action Party is, above all, a pro-Canadian party dedicated to the principle that Canada can best serve its citizens and the world by re-claiming and maintaining its political and economic sovereignty as an independent country.
It is opposed to the ascendancy of “corporate rule” and those aspects of unrestricted global investment that promote colonization of the world’s smaller powers and in Canada’s case its absorption by the United States of America.
Minus the heart-clenching, tear-jerking, human dignity bit (if you continue reading further), notice the similarities.
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
–Joe Vogler
Yep. You betcha.
Naturally, Sarah Palin and Joe Vogler aren’t your only friends in America.
I’d like to say that Bill Ayers is one of your friends as well, but I won’t. He’s not an Anti-American. He used to be, but he has cleaned himself up and has been doing good for America by way of charity projects and becoming a professor. He wants to fix what’s broken in America and I admire that. Better than the incessant whiners any day. (RE: ACORN: I want to know that Obama/Ayers are directly involved with encouraging voter fraud before I say anything, but that’s besides the point.) Ayers stayed in this country, after all, and did what he could to help after he rehabilitated. Americanophobes abroad would never think of helping a fallen American (obviously). Rather, they would step on them and mush them into the cement. But they like to call themselves, “tolerant”, “peace-loving”, and “considerate” all the time while patting their backs. I love the irony.
Now, I’d introduce you to Pastor Jeremiah Wright, but scratch that. Why? He believes in God, and Americanophobes loathe people who are religious. So, forget that.
Anyway…
There are more Americans that hate America than all those that hate America abroad combined. But see, you wouldn’t know that you have so many friends over here in the US because you know as much about the US as Americans know about the rest of the world. Because after all, Americanophobia IS based on ignorance and underdeveloped brains. You know, brains like this and this. Don’t matter how you sugar-coat it, bigotry IS bigotry. And bigotry stems from, once again, ignorance. DISCLAIMER:Before you people start foaming at the mouth, let’s not confuse being disgusted with America with Anti-Americanism because they are two different things.
Now, go on. Show Governer Sarah Palin your unwavering support, hold hands, and join together as you do whatever it is you do best i.e bullying innocent people and hating those that aren’t like you.
But wait a second!! Isn’t she supposed to be one of us – yanno, the relateable REAL type of folksy-folk? You betcha. *wink* I mean, don’t we just adore her because she’s so real? *wink* She’s so in touch with the average “Joe 6-pack”. *wink* At least the way I see it, being real doesn’t equate with Photoshop.
And whining is a Liberal phenomenon, isn’t it?
Are you listening to me, you NATION OF WHINERS?!?!
(Psst… If this makes you depressed, well…. there’s always a Palin cookie you can eat.)
Canadians have more sex, have multiple partners, are planet-friendly lovers, are more adventurous in bed, don’t have to go to jail for crimes committed and more!
After digging through the data, here’s what we found: the staid, underpaid Canadian is dead. Believe it or not, we now have more wealth than Americans, even though we work shorter hours. We drink more often, but we live longer and have fewer diseases. We have more sex, more sex partners and we’re more adventurous in bed, but we have fewer teen pregnancies and fewer sexually transmitted diseases. We spend more time with family and friends, and more time exploring the world. Even in crime we come out ahead: we’re just as prone to break the law, but when we do it, we don’t get shot. Most of the time, we don’t even go to jail.
Additionally, Canada is a way cool place if you like to smoke pot, but ……… BUT(!) if you have smoked pot in the US (which is considered a criminal offence in the Great White North) Canada doesn’t like that and they may not let you enter the country without a fight.
But the good news is that Canada, (just a few months ago) took their very first step toward national sovereignty for the first time since her birth, and now has her own porn channels with …. *ACTUAL CANADIANS* (yes I did say that – Canadians are on TV!) instead of those nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, FAT, ugly, lazy, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, prude, sexless, monogamy-obsessed, raunchy, cheesy, dirty, smelly, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, and self-centered neanderthal yanks from that cultural wasteland the the south. ———->
McCain didn’t even shake hands at the end of the debate with “that one” despite Obama’s putting his hand out to do so.
And people think Obama is arrogant and condescending?
And why didn’t McCain talk about all of Obama’s connections to his “terrorist friends”? That would have been a good one, no? C’mon! We’re talking about the “Straight Talk Express”, here! McCain missed a perfect opportunity to warn the American people that their lives are in danger under Obomba.
If the campaign is “Country First”, then McCain should do whatever he can to stop Obomba from destroying America.
I think Tom Brokaw and McCain forgot to take their Geritol this morning.
Of first priority, I would most humbly like to thank Ms. Monkey for allowing me this exalted venue to make a very important announcement.
Zontar the Magnificent (this is where my blog is), your ever faithful scribe has in the past been merely an observer of the machinations and follies of the events on your fair planet Earth. Zontar, however, feels he must now take bold action. Upon observing the very negative campaigning occurring in the “United” States for the current election, Zontar wishes to declare his intention to run for president!
I know all of my faithful minions from my own blog will be delighted to hear this news and will vote for me with no questions asked. It is incumbent upon me, in order to achieve victory, to give you Zontar’s campaign platform in this very fine blog of Ms. Monkey.
For those who don’t know me, I hail from Xenon which is a galaxy 12,000,000,000,000,002 light years from Earth. Zontar is eligible constitutionally to be president as Xenon was made a protectorate of the “United” States during the incumbency of Gerald Ford.
Don’t write me any letters! I know what you are thinking. “Zontar”, I hear you say, “This is absurd! You are an alien! How can you understand the problems of a (mostly) human country?”
Fear not, future faithful minion. I can assure you there is ample precedent. Simply look at history.
That is correct, oh ye of little faith. Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest president was actually a cyborg hailing from Uranus. During the 19th century, this tidbit was swept under the rug. But all Xenonians are very knowledgeable about this. The fable of his assassination at the hands of the mad actor Booth is a complete fabrication. What happened was his unstable wife through a glass of Big Red at him after a particularly heated argument. This caused him to short circuit. There was no cabal involved at all. It was just a marital spat.
Even in our own time there is proof that Aliens have been deeply involved in politics. It is well known that the neocon aliens endorsed George W. Bush:
Perhaps the most astonishing revelation of all is the fact that the current vice-president, Mr Richard Cheney, is an interloper from beyond the Milky Way.
This is certainly not hard to believe given the evil which he hath wrought upon the world. He was born on the Planet Fellatio and it is well known who malevolent and bad-tempered Fellatians are. Thank Allah he will soon be on the street in January.
But Zontar is not about finger pointing about others wrong doings. Nay! Zontar is benevolent and wise and is all about Change! Change we can believe in!
But what are Zontar’s stands on the issues? Why should I vote for him, I hear you thinking.
The reasons are sundry and overwhelming.
The most important reason is that Zontar is a good family man who has old fashioned family values. As an example I give you a picture of the most recent child which was given birth by his beloved daughter wife Placenta.
Don’t ya think Krok is adorable?
Among Zontar’s other accomplishments, are that he was co-chairman of the PTA (Parent Teacher Alien) association in Xenonia and later mayor of that fair city. While mayor Zontar made many fine executive decisions such as which books to ban and how much of a bounty to place of wolves legs.
The greatest reason to vote for Zontar is of his sacrifice for his planet of Xenon. During the Third interplanetary war between Xenon and Fellatio, Zontar was taken prisoner. He was tortured twice daily upon the electric chair
and inhumane toilet practices
Zontar would not give in to his captors. He would not divulge any military secrets until the second day of captivity.
Zontar is an intergalactic hero. Zontar is a maverick.
To make sure you can trust this ticket, Zontar is nominating himself as vice-president. Xenonians have a unique self cloning feature which comes in very handy.
So on election day, I want ya to ask yourself this question. Do you want four more years of Bush as represented by Mr. McCain?
Or do you really want a president who is a tax and spend liberal who will enslave you to his communist belief system and send you to a gulag prison camp if you disagree with him?
I think you know the answer my friends. On November 4th, as you enter the voting booth, make your choice for Change, Truth and the American Way!
This makes me sick as I hear that men all over the country are pleasuring themselves every time Palin comes on the screen. I keep hearing that American lesbians are voting for her after they lost the other vagina Hillary. Wal-mart stretch pants, soccer, and hockey moms will now have someone to relate to and will vote for Palin.
In the last election, some voted for Bush because they wanted to have a beer with him. Now, they either want to pork Sarah Palin, or just feel that she’s so reeeeeeeeeeeeal and relateable because she’s so reeeeeeeeeeeeeal.
Are we looking for friends or cheap dates in the sack or a president/vp that will run the country RESPONSIBLY with your well-being in THEIR hands?
There’s E-Harmony.com, Match.com, the Christian Virgin Singles Network, and others out there designed for finding “relataebles”, reeeeeeeeeal people, beer buddies, friends with benefits, marriage partners both heterosexual and homosexual and trannies.
Dearest America, this is a PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – *NOT* E-Harmony.Com or American Idol.
And he’s got it right. If you don’t want your children being made fun of for having two babies out of wedlock, don’t display them on to our TV screens!!!! Decent Americans want to see the candidates and hear about their issues both past and present. There is nothing more manipulative and irrelevant to see the candidates children flood the stage after a political event. And what’s even worse is when I hear some of my neo-con compatriots speak of how “perfect” Palin’s family is and how they all “get along so well” and the “most perfect relationship everrrrr”. Yes, I have heard this all too many times. How the hell do we define one’s intimate relationships based on a few appearances in Hollywood after political campaigns?
Americans, please vote. But for for the ISSUES not the personality!
Sarah Palin wants to run the United States, and possibly use McCain to help her out at times. She doesn’t even like McCain because a year ago, he really was a Maverick. He has liberal principles that even if he denies them now, it is too late for Sarah Palin. And it will be easy for Palin to run the states sitting on John’s face as he’ll do anything for her with the right wink or her signature cutsey mommy-dearest-smile.
If any of you had your eyes open the last 8 years, you know that it was Cheney who ran the US (especially in the orchestration of the Iraqi War) – not Bush. Bush was his puppet. Palin will be – not another Bush – but another Cheney. And that is worse. I’ve always thought Cheney was worse than Bush. Cheney is the most criminal-minded sinister man ever to be in the White House, in my opinion.
On November 4th, when people line up to vote, you are naive to think that people are actually voting for McCain for the Republican ticket. No. They are all voting for Palin. People still know deep down inside that McCain is too Liberal for the Republican Party.
In all actuality, the Neo-Conservatives do *NOT* like Mavericks. They like those who represent all of their values. Not a few, but ALL of them. All of these “…but we’re the mavericks!!!!” are really intended to sway the Independents and the middle-of-the-roaders. If people truly think that Palin is a maverick, they are not paying attention.
If people are buying that words such as
you betcha
*wink*
yah
darn right
comin’
*wink*
We’re gonna shake it up
*wink*
yanno
doncha
we’re gonna put the government back on the side of the people
*wink*
boring hockey mom stories (intelligent people don’t give a fuck how many ankle biters you have!)
*wink*
darn right
*wink*
……cha
is her really “relating” to middle class America, please kill yourself now!
While I don’t agree with First Lady Laura Bush’s politics, I do find her to be a REAL lady. See, she has children too. She is the ultimate balance of a woman who is feminine and can work as hard and efficiently as a man. Hell, even Ann Coulter is more feminine than Palin. Did I just say that?
To me, Sarah Palin has a penis. I don’t see a woman. I see a bitter and pushy broad trying to take over while using softy young-people-talk to buy her way into the Oval scene.
Is it any wonder why the reporters are chasing Palin? Is it any wonder why there is obsession about this woman? If you are paying close attention to both sides of every story in the media, you will know that Palin has “stuff” out there that NEEDS to be laid on the table for the American people as done with Obama before Palin arrived on the scene.
I have heard over and over about
Obama’s so called “connections” with Muslim terrorists
Obama is a Muslim – therefore he must be a terrorist
Obama doesn’t have any experience
Obama’s pastor is an Anti-American white-hater, so Obama must be one too
Obama’s friends are all terrorists
Obama’s wife is an American hater
Obama didn’t put his hand on his heart during the pledge of allegiance
Obama said there were 57 states (that was a joke, by the way)
………….all this courtesy of the American media by way of FOX NEWS!! And the reporters NEVER let it go.
OK?
Now, it’s Palin’s turn. We want to see what trees she’s been rubbing her nose against all these years too!
And the fact still remains that in every single one of her interviews, she has struggled, stumbled, and only rarely answered the questions asked. Blaming her ineptitude on the Liberal Media is a cop out. Blaming her is harder to do.
Our Palin was given another chance last night in the debates, and all I heard was her pre-packaged talking points:
We’re gonna put the government back on the side of the people
*wink*
We are mavericks
*wink*
Alaska’s the biggest producer of energy
doncha
I cut taxes in Alaska
betcha
Lemme tell you what I did in Alaska……. (even though the answer had nothing to do with the question!)
*wink*
Ya
*wink*
cha
*wink*
betcha
darn right
I’m so cute
All of you die-hard Republicans know just as well as I do that Katie Couric was asking not trick questions, but very basic ones looking for clarification on statements that Palin has been making for the last 5 weeks. There were no camera tricks in ANY of her interviews, her words were not photoshopped , everything was raw. Sorry. Palin looked like a fool. The Liberal media did *NOT* tweak or twist ANY of her interviews. And even the time it was said that the camera “messed up”, that too was proven to be a big fat lie and the result of restless, sweaty-palmed neo-cons grasping at lipsticks straws. You don’t even need to watch the interviews. You can get access to all of these scrips online. And you will see what many of us have. Palin does not answer questions. And when Palin stood up from her chair, she left a puddle of sweat behind her.
I don’t think we Liberals would be as harsh if she weren’t touting her “STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS” balogna. One thing I have learned the most about Palin is that she is *NOT* a “straight-talker” by ANY stretch of the term. She has butchered what it means to be direct.
“…she got out alive, though there were white-knuckle moments along the way: questions that were answered with painfully obvious talking points that betrayed scant knowledge of the issue at hand and sometimes little relevance to the question that had been asked.”
[Snip!]
On at least 10 occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney’s vice presidency and her own greatest weakness.
Additionally, the very fact that she felt the need to repeat her lines over and over and over again during the debate was weak. It spoke volumes for me, at least. Repeating lines to compensate for lack of substance, indeed. And she admitted it herself in saying the following in the beginning of the debate:
“…And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also…”
If we hadn’t just lived through a week in which news channels played some of Palin’s most embarrassing interview moments over and over again, I really think the story tonight would have been how badly she did in the debate. But because expectation levels were so low, she necessarily exceeded them. She did better than an average hockey mom plucked off the street would have, and therefore, we’re supposed to believe that she “held her own.”
But think about this. If a member of Congress had been selected at random and put on stage with no prep time at all, would that person have done better than Sarah Palin did last night? The answer is almost surely yes. Palin’s understanding of the issues was clearly confined to a handful of (poorly) memorized talking points. She often had to change the subject because she couldn’t answer a question. She almost never responded directly to the points Biden was making, and showed no ability whatsoever to engage in actual spontaneous thought or argument.
Even her emotional instincts were suspect. She blindly opened the door to Biden’s response about his own personal tragedy, and when he choked up, she responded in a weirdly disconnected way by smiling and saying something about how mavericky John McCain is. It was an odd moment, to say the least.
One example (out of numerous) from the debate last night is when she was asked to talk about her weak points, and all she did was tout her imagined “strong” points. Do you guys remember that?
I’d like to think that the American people would like to see what is behind all that incessant winking.
Anyway, for a laugh or a tear, I leave you with the following:
McCain “said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn’t sure whether they were aligned with us.”
Sarah Palin is going to do well. Why? Because she has rehearsed beforehand. It is as simple as that. When non-rehearsed and caught with questions off-guard, she’s an epic failure. Not that this phenomenon is specific to Sarah Palin, but I fear that too many people are not expecting much from her tonight — and you shouldn’t do that. Raise the bar. She is WELL-REHEARSED!
Mark my words.
And watch the polls that follow.
(By the way, while you’re tapping your fingers waiting for the debate to come on, let’s play Palin Bingo!)
This is a video where we see Palin just a wee bit nervous. As they say in Texas, she’s all hat and no cattle. Just like W.
Where is that “STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS”, hockey mom lipstick on pigs, moose, cows, wolves, pitbulls and all that “confidence” that should be emanating from Mizz Pro-Life fist-swinging, power-house, bravado tell-it-like-it-is Palin? Perhaps she needs another session with her witch doctor, witch hunter, witch healer or whatever you call him? Sarah Palin’s obvious restlessness during her last 3 interviews kinda reminds me of the way GWB furrows his brow and extends it 5 inches away from his face when he talks. Except, he doesn’t wear lipstick.
Granted making a fool out of yourself in public is bipartisan. But watching dirty-dealing Republicans getting caught red-handed and screaming mercy is much more entertaining.
If I have heard, “….but you voted for Bush twice!!!!!!1111″ once, I’ve heard it at least 989920033697 times. In fact, this is the most predictable Americanophobic cliché and misunderstanding of Americans, their political system, their history, and government as all the other rumors that I have challenged in my blog.
It was one of the country’s greatest political myths:Americans went to the polls every four years to directly elect the country’s president. Then, courtesy of the 2000 election — with its hanging chads, star turn by the Florida Secretary of State and intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court — we received a crash course in the intricacies of living in a constitutional republic.
It turned out that all those years when many thought we were directly selecting a presidential ticket, Americans’ votes were in fact being filtered by the Electoral College, the body of 538 electors that actually chooses the country’s president and vice president. Once the popular vote has been tallied, these electors — often culled from the ranks of state elected officials, party leaders and politically active private citizens — cast their ballots for the candidate who received the most votes in the popular election. The system is winner-take-all in most states, meaning that whichever ticket receives a simple majority of the popular vote wins all of that state’s electoral votes; the minority candidate, by contrast, receives no votes at all. And it is this electoral vote, not the popular vote, that ultimately determines an election’s outcome.
It wouldn’t be so frustrating if Americans weren’t called “dumb”, “stupid”, and “ignorant” on a routine basis. But the “ignorant Americans” are beginning to realize that the pots are only calling the kettles black. The Americanophobes are hypocrites because their “what they call truth” are merely rumors, knee-jerk reactions, fabrications, hyperbole, propaganda, and pure ignorance. But how surprised can I get as it is becoming common knowledge that Americanophobia IS based on Ignorance.
As I have mentioned at least 84 times on my blog, George Dumya Bush was *NOT* – I repeat *NOT* elected twice (aka 2 times). In election 2000, Al Gore WON by the people – for the people – yes, that would be the popular vote.
I know. It’s hard to look at – especially when you’ve been told differently by the BBC, the CBC, Faux News, and your favorite tabloid that talks AmeriKKKan dirt like no other.
What was all the ruckus over for a whole month after the 2000 election that made Michael Moore write a whole book about it? Well, see (and Micheal Moore being not all too often right on the money about anything, he was right about this)BUSH DIDN’T EVEN WIN THE ELECTORAL VOTE!
It may surprise you to know that Russia has a more direct presidential election process than the United States. In the United States, a system called the Electoral College periodically allows a candidate who receives fewer popular votes to win an election. In fact, there have been several presidential candidates who won the popular vote, but lost the election because they received fewer electoral votes. In Russia, where no such system exists, the candidate who receives a majority of popular votes wins the election.
For more information on how the Electoral College works, please continue reading here.
LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN. AL GORE WON THE 2000 ELECTION. RECALIBRATE YOUR MIND AND RE-WIRE YOUR BRAIN. INPUT CORRECT INFORMATION. ERASE THE PROPAGANDA. PUT DOWN YOUR BRITISH TABLOIDS.
Please click below to get informed. Because when you’re talking to Americans, you want to give a good impression that you are aware of American politics to avoid any embarrassment. (Or at least when in doubt, ask questions instead of quoting “The Daily Star”.)
Tuesday, Nov. 7—Election Day. Pundits have predicted a tight race between Texas governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, but few expect one of the closest elections in U.S. history. By early evening, it’s clear the election hinges on Florida.
Wednesday, Nov. 8—Gore calls Bush at approximately 3 A.M. to concede, but retracts the concession shortly after, because Bush’s razor-slim lead prompts an automatic recount. He leads Gore by about 1,210 votes out of nearly 6 million cast in Florida. Meanwhile Gore leads in both the national popular count and the electoral college.
An unusual amount of votes for third-party candidates in Palm Beach County leads to disputes over the county’s “butterfly ballots.” A number of ballots in other counties are disqualified because the chad > the small piece of paper punched out of punch-card ballots—did not fully detach from the ballot.
Thursday, Nov. 9—Gore’s camp requests a hand recount of the approximately 1.8 million ballots cast in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Volusia counties, Democratic strongholds.
Friday, Nov. 10—Florida’s automatic recount is completed. The Associated Press reports that Bush has retained his lead but only by 327 votes.
Saturday, Nov. 11—The Bush team, led by former secretary of state James Baker, files suit in federal court to block Gore’s request for a hand recount.
Monday, Nov. 13—Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris announces she will not extend the Nov. 14 deadline for the submission of all state results, excluding absentee ballots from overseas.
A federal judge in Miami rejects Bush’s efforts to halt manual recounts. Bush appeals the decision.
Tuesday, Nov. 14—Harris postpones certification of the state’s votes until Nov. 15, so Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties have time to prepare an explanation of why they should hand count their ballots.
Wednesday, Nov. 15—Harris decides that no county offered adequate evidence to justify further hand recounts.
Florida Supreme Court denies a request from Harris to stop the hand recounts. Certification is again postponed.
Thursday, Nov. 16—Bush’s lawyers present written arguments to the U.S. federal appeals court in Atlanta to end the manual recounts. Gore’s team files a counter motion.
Friday, Nov. 17—The Florida Supreme Court blocks Harris from certifying election until it rules on the Democrats’ motion to include hand recounts.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denies the Republicans’ motion to stop manual recounts on constitutional grounds.
Saturday, Nov. 18—With a tally of absentee ballots, uncertified count has Bush ahead of Gore by 930 votes.
Tuesday, Nov. 21—Florida Supreme Court rules that results of hand counts of ballots in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties must be included in the vote tally if the counts are completed by Nov. 26.
Sunday, Nov. 26—Harris certifies Bush as the winner of Florida’s 25 electoral votes, with a 537-vote lead over Gore. Gore pledges to challenge certification in court. The tally does not include results from Palm Beach County, which finished its hand recount hours after the deadline.
Monday, Nov. 27—Gore contests the Florida results in a circuit court in Tallahassee.
Wednesday, Nov. 29—Leon County Circuit Court judge N. Sanders Sauls orders that all ballots from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties be sent to Tallahassee for a hearing on whether the hand count, which was incomplete at the time of the court-ordered Nov. 26 deadline, should be included in the final vote tally.
Thursday, Nov. 30—Florida lawmakers, voting along party lines, recommend holding a special session to name the state’s 25 electors if the election dispute is not resolved by Dec. 12, six days before the electoral college meets.
Friday, Dec. 1—The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Florida Supreme Court acted properly when it forced the Florida secretary of state to accept manual recounts submitted after the legal deadline.
The Florida Supreme Court denies Gore’s appeal to immediately begin recounting ballots and rejects motion filed by some Palm Beach County citizens who questioned the integrity of the “butterfly ballot.”
Gore requests a count of approximately 14,000 “undervotes” from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.
Monday, Dec. 4—Judge Sauls rejects Gore’s contest of the election results, saying the vice president failed to prove that hand recounts would have altered the results. Gore appeals to the Florida Supreme Court.
U.S. Supreme Court asks Florida Supreme Court to explain why it ordered Harris to accept results submitted after the Nov. 14 deadline mandated by state law, thus returning the case to Tallahassee.
Thursday, Dec. 7—Gore’s legal team appeals Sauls’s ruling. Bush’s lawyers argue that the decision should stand.
Friday, Dec. 8—The Florida Supreme Court, ruling on Gore’s appeal, orders manual recounts in counties with large numbers of undervotes. Bush appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and seeks injunction to stop recounts.
In two separate lawsuits, Leon County Circuit Court judges refuse to throw out absentee ballots from Seminole and Martin counties that had been disputed by Gore.
Saturday, Dec. 9—The U.S. Supreme Court votes 5–4 to halt the hand recounts and sets a hearing for Dec. 11.
Florida Supreme Court hears appeal on whether absentee ballots in Martin and Seminole counties should be counted.
Tuesday, Dec. 12—The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore 7–2 to reverse the Florida Supreme Court, which had ordered manual recounts in certain counties. The Court contends that the recount was not treating all ballots equally, and was thus a violation of the Constitution’s equal protection and due process guarantees. The Supreme Court of Florida would be required to set up new voting standards and carry them out in a recount. The justices, however, split 5–4 along partisan lines about implementing a remedy. Five justices maintain that this process and the recount must adhere to the official deadline for certifying electoral college votes: midnight, Dec. 12; other justices question the importance of this date. Since the Court makes its ruling just hours before the deadline, it in effect ensures that it is too late for a recount. The decision generates enormous controversy. Those objecting to the ruling assert that the Supreme Court, and not the electorate, has effectively determined the outcome of the presidential election. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes in a scathing dissent, “the Court’s conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court’s own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.”
Wednesday, Dec. 13—In another decision, Florida Supreme Court decides not to hear an appeal from Gore asking that absentee ballots from Martin and Seminole counties be thrown out.
In televised speeches, Gore concedes, and Bush accepts the presidency.
Monday, Dec. 18—Electoral college representatives meet in state capitals and cast votes to select president.
Wednesday, Jan. 5—Congress meets to tally electoral college results.
Saturday, Jan. 20—George W. Bush sworn in as 43rd president of the United States.
The above is not news for most Americans. We expect this. We live this. However, we have fought this. Even in the 21st century, we are still fighting this until they fix this corrupt system owned by very rich and powerful bankers. The Republican party is all for the rich people. It does not represent the people. It does not represent the average man on the street. Admittedly, there are many poor Americans that vote Republican (the party for the rich) sacrificing some of their own interests for the party that stands for God and Guns. Don’t ask. The Neo-Conservatives don’t like hearing that Al Gore won the 2000 election. They cringe at it as do the Americanophobes that think for some godforsaken reason that Americans all have the same DNA. Hoo hummm….
A Canadian Intellectual even comments on our Electoral Process.
“…I figured it’s time to let everybody in on a secret, not that well kept mind you… it’s all a giant waste of time, come November 4th, the results of the election will be determined by 3 voters.
[Snip!]
In case you missed it, the president of the US is determined by what’s known as the electoral college. In this arcane system, the winner is determined by whoever manages to receive the most electoral votes. Each state is allocated a number of votes more or less based on its population, California the most with 55 and little states like the Dakotas, 3 each. If you receive the majority of votes in, say, Oregon, you get all 7 of Oregon’s votes, making the votes of all those who voted for another candidate completely irrelevant in the final count (*see below). This is done on a state-by-state basis, and the winner is determined by who gets the most electoral votes.
As has happened in the past it is quite possible for the winner of the election to actually receive less votes than the loser (in fact it’s happened 4 times: 1824, 1876 and 1888 and of course 2000). Now, the fact is a majority of voters in the US are either Republicans or Democrats and it wouldn’t matter if Krusty the Clown was their party’s candidate, that’s who they will vote for. Additionally, most states tend to be either Republican or Democrat states, for example California will be Democrat and Oklahoma will vote Republican. Of course these preferences change over time, slowly, but why are we wasting so much energy on this when we already know most of the results?…”
There are also some states that have lighter shades of red or blue or just about 50-50, but what he said in his blog entry was accurate. Feel free to read the rest of his post here.
In 2000, a clear majority of Americans voted for Al Gore. But the winner is determined by the Electoral College, so the winner in each state must be considered. The vote in Florida was so close that it took a month to declare a winner. Before Florida was declared, Gore led in the Electoral College with 266 votes to Bush’s 246 votes. When Bush was declared the winner of Florida by 537 votes, he picked up 25 Electoral College votes which gave him the Presidency.
So, with that said, Bush didn’t even win the ELECTORAL VOTE! Feel free to read the rest of the story here.
The Americanophobes and staunch Republicans will deny all of this until the pigs with lipstick come home, but the jury is *NOT* out on any of this. It is fact. But it is a hard one to swallow. To suggest that the “Greatest Nation on God’s Green Earth” is anything less than a Democracy is foreign to the ignorant or those that refuse to accept a harsh truth – especially one that places a threat on a life-saving mission for those with inferiority complexes.
It is true, however, that Bush DID get considerable support back in 2004. One commenter on my blog theorizes,
The Bush stuff never fails to amuse me, “OMG!!! THEY ELECTED BUSH”. I’d like to quote The late-great George Carlin on that one, “I still call him Governor Bush because that’s the last office he was legally elected to”. George Bush was appointed by the U.S. Supreme court (by daddy’s appointees) in 2000. Had he not been, he wouldn’t have even been an option in 2004.
Why was he re-elected in 2004? The war. Was it necessarily support for the war on moral grounds? Not really. Bush got a ton of red state support in 2004. Why? This is just a hunch of mine, but not one without careful and considerable observation. It comes down to one thing: Vietnam.
It’s a very personal, walking-on-eggshells sort of issue. The U.S. military has always recruited heaviest in the south and midwest. A lot of men in “fly-over” states either enlisted, or were drafted into Vietnam in the 60’s. They thought they were doing the right thing. They saw all these hippies burning their draft cards and running off to Canada. They went off to war and when they came home, were treated very badly by the country they thought they were serving.
Something like that you never forget. Their kids and grandchildren hear tales of how all these hippies and “intellectual sissies who think they’re so damned smart” spat on their loved ones way back then, calling them “babykillers”, god knows what else, and it breeds quite a bit of contempt. As a result, as long as there are people protesting the war, they will be there to support it, even if only out of spite. I don’t agree with it, but I understand where it comes from. That’s just how it is.
It is human nature that leftist Americanophobic intimidation causes people to veer toward the right of center. I’m not saying that it is right, but that IS how things are. And there are many who have converted to Right Wing politics for the reasons mentioned above. Many. And that is also the cause of the birth of Neo-Conservatism.
Those who chose Bush did not do it because they do not care what happens to the rest of the planet. Bush managed to convince many Americans that his intentions were to liberate the Iraqi people and to eradicate terrorism of the face of the Earth; an idealistic notion to believe in, but never a selfish one. This is why I think that the “Average American isn’t selfish in regards to the world”. On the contrary, they care too much. This has been an altruism that has cost them dearly and continues to go unappreciated.
I wrote this piece not from the point of view of a foreigner living in America, but from the perspective of an immigrant who has fully integrated into this society. After I posted this in Spanish, people continued to say mean things about Americans. They still believe that Americans are blind and selfish; something they feel was confirmed by the reelection of President Bush. Never mind that nearly half of us voted for Kerry. But even those I know who voted for Bush, did not do it because they want to destroy the world. Many of those who voted for him did it because they truly believed he would rid the world of tyranny and terrorism. How can someone call that selfishness? Naive maybe, but not stupid or selfish.
To all Americans, Bush voters or not, feel proud of what your country stands for and keep your heads high. Have faith in yourselves and your values… Truth will always prevail…
To non-Americans: Throw the first stone if your country is free of wrongdoing.
I encourage you all to criticize all-things-American-corruption. Tell me what’s on your mind. Get it all off of your chests. Tell me you hate Bush, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi War, Neo-Capitalism, American Globalization and Dominant Monopolies that threaten competition. I will agree with you. We can have a nice conversation while bickering about the Bush administration over delicious Tequila Shots. I bet you are not as passionate a critic of the US as I am. I don’t object to any decries about those who run the American government … AT ALL. But when you start with the inane stereotyping, the sweeping generalizations about me, my family, my friends and those whom you have never met before, I lose respect for you and stop listening. There is no excuse for pubic bigotry, in my book. I would like to think that those who label themselves as “informed”, “enlightened”, “worldly”, and “educated” to be more “in the know” of the topics they discuss.
Criticism of ANY kind should be fair, balanced, informed, constructive, and thought provoking.
I now hope that you are all aware of how the Electoral Process works during American presidential elections. Not that this will put rampant and mindless Americanophobia(that has been alive and well since the 19th Century) to rest or anything. I don’t expect Americanophobia to end. It actually HAS to exist because how else would the Americanophobes in Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Latin America survive their own shortcomings without the crutch of the American scapegoat?
And let me just leave with you a sample of Election 2008’s Electoral Vote before the major election coming in November:
So, as you can see, the votes in Idaho do not count on the electoral level. And yes, that means that if I lived in Idaho and I voted for Obama, it wouldn’t count. (I vote regardless just to have my vote on paper as I think that is important especially to further expose the flaws of the electoral college.) Naturally, the above map is subject to change on November 4th, but is merely just an example of how it works. And before you Anti’s start crying about that, YES, we Americans are trying to CHANGE this system.
Read, listen, and learn with an open mind before you criticize (if your herd leader allows you to do so).
UPDATE!!
If that wasn’t enough to show how undemocratic our voting system here is, THIS is equally worse – if not more so:
As the women of Wasilla know, however, the Palin doctrine rejects government hand-outs such as rape kits. During Palin’s mayoralty, women were stuck with the tab for their forensic exams, which range from $300 to $1,200. Palin refuses to perpetuate the endless cycle of rape-victim welfare. By paying for rape kits, the government would be rewarding people who break their abstinence-only pledges, which, as we all know, are sacred to the entire Palin family, especially Bristol.
Yes, already on baby #2…
But by charging rape victims, the government encourages women to keep their purity pledges to their fathers. Plus the expense, makes women think twice about crying wolf, thus helping to reduce Alaska’s per capita rape rate, which stands among the highest in our great nation.
Mrs. Palin (oops, I mean Mizz Palin because you are a die hard feminist) didn’t you say that you were, in your own words, “Putting Government Back on the Side of the People?”
Just don’t plan on getting battered or raped when these two become president because the “pro-women:” “pro-people” and “feminist” couple will most likely make you pay for your own rape kit (which can be between $300-$1,500) . If you are the victim of a violent crime, will you be okay under the new lower standards setting women back decades?
Now, WHO’S the sexist?
It only took the Palin/McCain ticket for me to realize that Bush wasn’t as bad as I had thought.
Oh and P.S. After you get raped come January, you will not only be forced to dish out a lot of money for your rape kit that is to aid in the criminalization of the rapist (god forbid), you will have to keep the baby too.
These are the questions to which I want answers. These are the central issues of a campaign, of an election to which Americans must pay attention. If rape victims have been charged for rape kits in municipalities, towns, cities and states around this country, we deserve to know why. But let’s not sell ourselves short. We deserve to know a lot more than that. The system is broken. Revealing a hole here and a scratch there unearths some superficial problems. If women are going to decide this election, we should do so based on the policies that impact women most, and which candidates will actually help women outside of politics. We can do this by asking the important questions:
Which set of candidates understands best how to remedy the culture of violence perpetuated against women in this nation and globally? Which set of candidates pro-actively creates policies that address the root causes of rape and sexual assault? Which set of candidates do we trust to raise the status of women in this country and work internationally to do the same? Which set of candidates’ legislative and leadership records reveal genuine attempts at fixing the problems their various constituents face when it comes to rape, sexual assault and other forms of violence against women?
“…rape kits also contain…emergency contraception…”
And this is against God’s rule. Dear women, don’t make God cry. Don’t get raped. It’s all within YOUR control.
This is why the National Organization for Women are now supporting Obama. Ironic, isn’t it? Voting against a FEMALE president for women’s issues???
On pay equity. Sen. Obama is a co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation to end wage discrimination against women.
On reproductive rights. Sen. Obama is a co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act, to strengthen access to contraception and reproductive health care, and prevent unwanted pregnancies. He strongly supports Roe v. Wade and will oppose any efforts to overturn it.
On violence against women. Sen. Obama supports the continued reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act — of which Sen. Joe Biden is the chief sponsor — as well as the Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act, which is legislation to provide legal, medical and financial support to victims of domestic violence.
On the Supreme Court. Sen. Obama opposed the nominations of George Bush’s extreme right-wing nominees to the Supreme Court, who have consistently ruled against women’s rights, …
Now, getting very desperate, the Republicans are trying to keep those that have lost their homes from voting.
This reminds me of Election 2000 where many Floridian blacks were kept from voting to ensure the victory of the GOP.
While the Dems can be very corrupt, there is no corruption like the corruption that comes from the Republican Desperados. They really cannot handle losing, can they? And the neo-cons say that the Libs are running the show in Washington? Really?
More information on Election Fraud can be found here.
If there are any updates or corrections that need to be made to the above story, I will update it ASAP.
The extreme right wing keeps announcing that if Obama took office, that the US would be defenseless – that our soldiers can basically go home and wouldn’t be needed until another Republican took office. This is all despite Obama supporting our presence and military needs to take down Osama Bin Forgotten.
Woodrow Wilson(Democrat)—> had us go to WWI (for the last year and a half of it).
Franklin D Roosevelt(Democrat)—> WWII
Harry Truman(Democrat)—> The Korean War
John F Kennedy(Democrat)—> got the ball rolling for Vietnam War
Lyndon B Johnson(Democrat)—>another Democrat who continued the Vietnam War
I’m not going to give an opinion about these wars whether they were illegal or not – defense or offense. My point is to prove that, historically, we have gone to war MORE under Democratic presidents than Republicans!
Even the International Anti-American crowd doesn’t know this as they associate Republicans presidents with warmongering, and naively think that if Obama gets elected, that he won’t go after Osama bin Forgotten.
Some keep going on and on about oooooh aaaaaaah Palin has five kids! And how amazing she is for this.
So…?
First of all, anybody can get laid. It’s really not that hard – especially when you’ve been taught abstinence at youth. Who doesn’t enjoy sex raw without a condom? It’s the best sex ever for both the man AND THE WOMAN!
Secondly, what is there to respect about a woman with children who has a full-time career? That is a matter of ENVY, if anything. As a matter of fact, it is easier to have someone else raise your kids for you while you are working. No job can be harder than raising kids raw.
Besides, this is what most moms have been doing for years in the US: working and leaving their kids here and there – most of the time with strangers or nannies. <— Are these people just as qualified as YOU? If parents don’t have money and accidentally had kids, I can understand the critical need to work, but some moms just don’t have that excuse.
Dear 21st Century, thank you once again, for belittling the jobs of real mothers whom are actually there for their children, hearing their first words, watching them grow, learn, experience and etc. After the kids have grown a bit, I can understand beginning or continuing a career, but while the kids are still infants?
Sorry, but there’s a HUGE difference between feminism and common sense.
Wasn’t it the Libtards that started the Feminist Movement, anyway?
I was just feeling fits of rage over the Republican radicals and Evangelicals as I read through newspapers on the internet. Then I happened upon this article written by Einstein. I don’t know who I am angrier at: The Americanophobes or the Neo-Conservative Evangelicals in the US. These two groups are both equally closed minded and selfish as all hell. There’s no balance in their speech, and as usual, facts are distorted.
So you can understand my pessimism. But it’s now combined with a rising frustration. I watch as the Democrats stumble, uncertain how to take on Sarah Palin. Fight too hard, and the Republican machine, echoed by the ditto-heads in the conservative commentariat on talk radio and cable TV, will brand Democrats sexist, elitist snobs, patronising a small-town woman. Do nothing, and Palin’s rise will continue unchecked, her novelty making even Obama look stale, her star power energising and motivating the Republican base.
To be fair (which is what I’d expect from REAL journalists), the criticism goes BOTH WAYS. There ARE radicals on BOTH ends of the political spectrum. And both teams have unfair players. It is biased to only mention the foul Radical Republican players. Here’s one sick example out of many. There are rumors going about the internet surrounding Palin and Obama that are just simply that: RUMORS (lies!). The radicals on both sides believe everything they hear without question or challenge. And they are seriously misbehaving!
We know one of Palin’s first acts as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska was to ask the librarian the procedure for banning books. Oh, but that was a “rhetorical” question, says the McCain-Palin campaign. We know Palin is not telling the truth when she says she was against the notorious $400m “Bridge to Nowhere” project in Alaska – in fact, she campaigned for it – but she keeps repeating the claim anyway. She denounces the dipping of snouts in the Washington trough – but hired costly lobbyists to make sure Alaska got a bigger helping of federal dollars than any other state.
She claims to be a fiscal conservative, but left Wasilla saddled with debts it had never had before. She even seems to have claimed “per diem” allowances – taxpayers’ money meant for out-of-town travel – when she was staying in her own house.
Is the author implying here that Democrats are as clean as a whistle and never lie? Who does he think that he’s kidding?
Remember, this is a woman who once addressed a church congregation, saying of her work as governor – transport, policing and education – “really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God”.
I am hardly impressed with this statement even though it’s true. Why? Because the Americanophobes are no different with their extremism and their “religion”. Because if you think about it, Americanophobia REALLY IS a religion. And let’s not pretend that we don’t know what Americanophobia is. So, how really are the staunch Anti-Americans different from Palin and Co.?
Of all the pseudo-religions corrupting our thinking–Freudianism, Marxism, Darwinism, to name a few–anti-Americanism is the most bizarre and dangerous. The facts of American life and American history simply do not support the widespread view that the United States, in the lunatic words of playwright Harold Pinter, is a “fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster” that “knows only one language–bombs and death.” Such hatred usually is spawned by a diseased religious sensibility, an irrational passion for a narrative that bestows meaning on the world and one’s exalted place in it as a champion of the revealed truth and righteousness. Yet the cult of anti-Americanism is worse than any dysfunctional religion, for it masquerades as reasoned analysis based on historical fact.
Flynn: As I point out in “Why the Left Hates America,” anti-Americanism is the religion for people who hate religion. It comes complete with a devil (the United States); sacred texts (I, Rigoberta Menchu, The Communist Manifesto, etc.); saints (Noam Chomsky, Mumia Abu-Jamal); zeal (in putting together my book I was attacked, subjected to a book burning, and ejected from a conference for dissent); and many of the other characteristics that we find in various faiths.
If Sarah Palin defies the conventional wisdom that says elections are determined by the top of the ticket, and somehow wins this for McCain, what will be the reaction? Yes, blue-state America will go into mourning once again, feeling estranged in its own country.
Then why don’t you Americanophobes leave us alone already? May I remind you that you’re not mad at the Neo-Conservative Republican party who choose people like Palin and Bush as leaders, you’re mad at ALL OF US. You just like to kick people when they’re down, don’t you? Do you push quadriplegics out of their wheelchairs where you live? If your answer is “no”, then why are you so harsh on the American liberal-wing no matter how hard we fight for a better life? We’re not trying enough, you say? Give me a break! We have no more power than you as far as government is concerned, and we’ve busted our asses trying to get Bush impeached. BUSH DIDN’T CHOOSE YOUR PM TO BE HIS LAPDOG, YOUR PM DID. We’re not going to apologize, AGAIN, because your own country cannot make peaceful decisions by herself – even if your only flaw is selling arms to terrorists like the yanks did. At some point in time, you people are going to have to take some responsibilities for yourselves!
And for the record, liberals ARE already in a constant state of mourning, if you will, even if they don’t show it on their faces. I’d like to think that we liberals realize what is wrong with our country. And it is so.
A generation of young Americans – who back Obama in big numbers – will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn’t work after all.
Why do you Americanophobes always think it is the “young” that are liberal. I find that most curious. That is incorrect. Not only that, but we Liberals have ALWAYS been cynical and knew that politics rarely worked. Thirty-six percent of eligible citizens didn’t vote in the 2004 election. Have you ever did any research as to why people chose not to vote? It’s because they’re sick of our corrupt system and find solace with apathy. That is as far Left as you can go, sunny. The rest of the disgruntled Left have moved to Canada and Europe.
McCain might talk a good game on climate change, but a repeated floor chant at the Republican convention was “Drill, baby, drill!”, as if the solution to global warming were not a radical rethink of the US’s entire energy system but more offshore oil rigs.
Count me in as part of the “Drill, baby, drill” movement. I loathe having to depend on Americanophobes for ANYTHING. And some of us Americans are also getting sick and tired of the Americanophobic Canadians telling us how America wouldn’t survive without them. Even thought I’m voting for Obama, I would really like to get out of NATO and the UN and be the isolationists we once were, and let the rest of the planet fend for themselves for a change. Yes, Americanophobia abroad has hardened me THAT much. Yes, that’s me – a cynical mourning liberal.
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.
Due to Global Warming? Then, how come you haven’t yelled at Australia for not signing the Kyoto Treaty? Due to War? Then how come YOU keep choosing leaders that send you to war or fund it? How come your leaders sold arms to terrorist groups like the yanks did? Is it the economy? Where is your own personal responsibility involved? Fix your OWN economies so that you don’t have to be so dependent on the USA. Follow measures of best practices and watch Japan in action. What else is on your laundry list of woes that our barbarian leaders put you through? Are you afraid of us? Because if that’s true, you’re the last group of people we would hear this from because the term, “paranoid” is usually pinned to the Americans. This gentleman from Romania thinks that you guys are just looking for something to whinge about.
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration.
You guys love to kick your own country’s flaws under the carpet in the name of “the extreme few”, don’t you? If that is true, YOU(like the US) certainly harbor MANY (a little more than a few) hardcore people.
Next, how in the world will the last two elections differ from this one??? It’s the same thing, no? The 2000 election was honorably won by Al Gore. Thanks to our Electoral Process, Bush took the seat, however. In the 2004 election, Bush won by 51% with 48% having voted for Kerry.
I predict the same scenario for the 2008 election. Whether the electoral vote wins or loses, McCain will win narrowly. And once again, 48% OF AMERICANS WILL BE AS PISSED AS HELL!You Americanophobic Brits and Canucks have absoulutely no clue how most Americans feel. And that is why you Americanophobesdeserve the middle finger you get from us. We will be idiots if we apologize again because we aren’t doing anything TO YOU on PURPOSE. Talk about paranoia!
But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start – a fresh start the world is yearning for.
Are you kidding me? Did we not have a “fresh start” back in 2004 with Kerry? It was kinda tolerable to withstand the hardcore leftist xenophobes back in the years between 2000 and 2008, but it’s now 100% acceptable to lump all Americans under one convenient umbrella if Obama doesn’t win? Are we going by the Euro-Canadian Three Strikes and You’re Out Doctrine? Oh Daddy, why don’t you go ahead and ground us, already?
Perhaps Americanophobia shouldn’t provoke me, yanno. Why? Well look at who’s throwing the punches? A bunch of imbeciles. We have an expression in the US: “Consider the source”. There are no intelligent people on the face of the earth that labels an entire nation by the outcome of 51%.
You guys have the audacity to call Americans “selfish”. If you people were as SELFLESS as you so smugly claim to be, then how come you don’t sympathize with the 48% who must bear the wrath of another 4+ years with Evangelical Neo-Conservative Extremists running the show and making more and more Americans suffer?
My Colombian friend challenged her Spanish speaking friends with some logic:
Those who chose Bush did not do it because they do not care what happens to the rest of the planet. Bush managed to convince many Americans that his intentions were to liberate the Iraqi people and to eradicate terrorism of the face of the Earth; an idealistic notion to believe in, but never a selfish one. This is why I think that the “Average American isn’t selfish in regards to the world”. On the contrary, they care too much. This has been an altruism that has cost them dearly and continues to go unappreciated.
I wrote this piece not from the point of view of a foreigner living in America, but from the perspective of an immigrant who has fully integrated into this society. After I posted this in Spanish, people continued to say mean things about Americans. They still believe that Americans are blind and selfish; something they feel was confirmed by the reelection of President Bush. Never mind that nearly half of us voted for Kerry. But even those I know who voted for Bush, did not do it because they want to destroy the world. Many of those who voted for him did it because they truly believed he would rid the world of tyranny and terrorism. How can someone call that selfishness? Naive maybe, but not stupid or selfish.
To all Americans, Bush voters or not, feel proud of what your country stands for and keep your heads high. Have faith in yourselves and your values… Truth will always prevail…
To non-Americans: Throw the first stone if your country is free of wrongdoing.
It is common knowledge that Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada lives much happier and is effortlessly afforded a better standard of living and quality of life than the US… by a long shot. The US is the only country in the world that is behind the times regarding social issues, foreign and domestic policy, and civil rights. Why in the world do you guys believe that this is the life that all of us (or even most) choose? You Americanophobes say that we’re all spoiled and rich. Where on earth do you get this from? Oops, confusing the Fat Cat Government with the average man on the street again?
What I find very curious is that when a barbarian president is elected in the US, you get pissed off and say one or both of two things that contradict one another:
(Bush won): Fucking Americans only think about themselves; they don’t care how much we suffer from their voting choices
(Bush won): Fucking Americans deserve Bush
What? Which is it? Either you’re a victim or you’re not. Either Americans are out to get you or they’re not. Either Americans want a typical, nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, gun-toting, bible-thumping, baby-killing, flag-waving and self-centered Neanderthal American to rule them or they don’t and deserve it as punishment instead – even if they voted for Kerry or Obama. ???
Perhaps once you goons make up your minds, only then, will Americans start to take you more seriously. Right now, you’re making Bush look …. *gasps* …smart.
And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race – that Obama was rejected because of his colour – the world’s verdict will be harsh.
Aaaah, so nice to hear this from the proudest braggarts of all-things-multicultural and tolerant. Let’s look at the developed world, shall we? America is the FIRST country to have one of African decent RUNNING for the leadership of an entire nation in the western world. Look at where the man’s been and where he is now. There are NUMEROUS amounts of minorities (including women) serving in high rank positions all over our government. And are we not the first country to have one that wasn’t even born here as a governor? (Arnold S.) What about Affirmative Action where colleges, employers, and the like are REQUIRED to fill a quota over one’s merit/qualifications?
Please do *NOT* talk to me about racism while the rest of you talk in private or to yourselves about the minorities that you despise in your own neck of the woods. Furthermore, please don’t discuss racism with me while a large mass of your people indiscriminately hate 300+ million Americans that they’ve never met before. Please do not talk to me about tolerance when your own country is known for judging people based on their social classes. And finally, what was your excuse when Bush won over Kerry in 2004? Were we racist, then? We’ve had more Republican presidents than we’ve had Democrats. Now, enter Obama. He doesn’t win and ALL Americans become racist?
Most certainly there ARE plenty of racists in America. But we are no more racist than any of you on a per capita basis. In fact, if anything, we are a less racist country. Here are some good readings for you:
The above are just opinions and proof this is a more complex subject to tackle than the whiny Americanophobic Crusade is making it out to be. Once you guys are qualified to make an informed or more balanced decision on this topic, than maybe, we Americans will listen. And finally once you stop attacking Americans in the street solely based on their place of birth, than we will look up to you as role models for tolerance in the 21st century.
In that circumstance, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that “the United States had its day, but in the end couldn’t put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race”.
Hmm… some Americans are trying to figure out why the people in other parts of the world couldn’t put their own self-interest ahead of their crazy irrationality over “place of birth”. Or is that your self interest? Once people in other nations clearly show that they really ARE ahead of America regarding “tolerance”, then you can have your say.
…For America to make a decision as grave as this one – while the planet boils…
Come again?
While that planet boils? And you’re calling from Britain, right? Here’s a newsflash for you: Your current “boiling state” is saving many-a-lives. Here’s more additional reading for you to prove that Global Warming is not as “simple” as you make it to be.
…and with the US fighting two wars – on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, “historical decline”…
Wait. I thought it was because we were all “racist”. So, which is it?
Well, you HAVE TO find some reason to hate us, and I must say I do give you credit for your determination and endurance to sift through the straws… Let me just reiterate. Nobody hates America and Americans better than America and Americans themselves. But see, you wouldn’t know that. Your “expertise” on American Culture is limited to your own backyard and trashy tabloids.
Let’s not forget, McCain’s campaign manager boasts that this election is “not about the issues.
I fell upon this paragraph in the blogosphere today.
Mitt Romney said it best in his speech at the Republican National Convention. Washington is broke. The U.S. Government has been under the control of Obama-style liberal elitists continually since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt 75 years ago. It’s not that Democrats have always controlled the Presidency or Congress, but liberals have always been the vast majority of bureaucrats. This liberal majority has led the U.S. downhill to the point where mothers can no longer afford to stay home and raise their children properly, as they could easily do 75 years ago.
We’ve had Reagan, Bush 1 Sr. and then Bush II Jr. Let’s just cover those three for now. That is 20 years of having a Republican President and Vice President in office. Never in my life had I ever seen people as enthusiastic and defensive over a President as George W Bush Jr. And even Bush’s support abroad, (and it does exist) is FIERCE and unapproachable.
Oh, the conservatives DID complain about Bush every once in a while but mostly due to the Illegal Immigration problem in the US. Other than that, I’ve rarely heard a peep out of the Republicans.
BUT… now,… Washington is “broke”?
Do we really have a liberal majority? These people may not agree.
Look at all the Republican Presidents and Vice Presidents in office in rewind-mode. What do you think that Palin is going to do that Republicans in History haven’t? How will she nuke those liberal bureaucrats? And why have all the“true Republican Conservatives” been sitting there watching our Washington “break” since you were born?
Oh.. and Bush said “change” was needed back in 2004. Oh, yes he did. And that is what is so ironic.
If you don’t have the time to watch the entire video above, please start watching at 4:20 to see the ridiculousness in all this.
And what about those lobbyists, anyway?
In any event, I am fully aware that the Dems lie. But what about the Republicans? Are they as clean as a whistle as they are thought to be by their supporters? And, once again, how much power does a president have?
…But the Enquirer was recently vindicated after its long-running pursuit of John Edwards, a former Democratic presidential candidate, ended with him admitting he had conducted an extra-marital affair with a filmmaker he had met in a bar in New York and later employed on his campaign.
Yes, and the far right had a field day over this if I remember correctly.
The Enquirer responded: “The National Enquirer’s coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin’s extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor’s daughter revealed her pregnancy.
“Following our John Edwards exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign’s vetting process. Despite the McCain camp’s attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum.”
To change the subject a bit, I just recently happened upon a staunch Palin support site. And I found this sticker:
This sounds more like me, actually.
But what exactly is Palin saying that is “painful”? Examples, please….? Oh wait! You mean THIS kinda painful?
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks.
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a “babe”.
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out
there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She’s smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s
surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t
fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen
when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out
of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s
attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are
swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.
Community organizing isn’t easy work, it doesn’t pay well and often yields small results, meaning the person doing the work has to find motivation somewhere other than instant success and change. They have to find motivation in the people they are meeting and truly believe in the grassroots work they are doing. And even if you can’t usually pinpoint it’s success, community organizing is vital to understanding how communities work and what the needs of working people, and low-income people are. And this it seems to me would be an important thing to understand as the President of our country.
I’d like to quote my friend Zontar from what he wrote in the comment section of my other post on Palin:
Zontar at first observed her as a fine speaker. Zontar thought the speech was well crafted. Then half-way she turned into a liar and was giving a hatchet job upon Mr. Obama. Zontar thought that her making fun of Mr. Obama for “community organizing” while she was busy as mayor of Rectum, Alaska was most uncalled for. She uses her power to ban books from the local library she deems offensive, tries to fire her ex-brother-in-law for revenge and raise a slut who obviously didn’t listen to Palin’s lectures on abstinence as the only acceptable method for birth control.
Palin! Mr. Obama could have, upon graduating from Harvard Law gone into any number of lucrative professions. Instead he went into the slums of south Chicago to help the poor, the disenfranchised, the homeless and the starving to try to improve their lives. You call this not accomplishing anything! How dare you, you pious hypocrite.
And for your information Mr. Obama is, had you really listened to his acceptance speech, is very much committed to fighting terrorism, but only in places where are true enemies are, such as Afghanistan, not frittering precious lives in Iraq, a ridiculous war which, if it ended tomorrow would not have accomplished anything.
Nothing.
Mr. Obama did not say he was going to raise taxes. Just on the five percent of the population who have too long gotten a free ride at the expense of the average American.
As they say in Texas, Palin is all hat and no cattle. How come we heard no specifics from her?
What is so very wrong with the neo-cons who listened to both Obama’s and McCain’s speech? What is all this talk about McCain’s speaking “straight talk”? I don’t get it. Obama was, by far, the straightest shooter to date regarding all the speeches we’ve heard during the conventions. How was Obama indirect and McCain and Palin “more” direct? Put the fireworks, packed stadiums, strippers, and flashing lights aside and listen to Obama’s speech. Then critique it. I feel as if the neo-cons cannot see beyond the superficial distractions. And to clear the air on the recent disputes, Obama DID write his own speech.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
VS
USA
USA
USA
I choose “Yes, we can”. It’s the change I trust, and it’s not an empty suit.
Disclaimer:This post is all about rumors bases on these outdated “conspiracy theories”, fabricated stories or whatever you want to call them. Here are my opinions, and a couple rhetorical questions.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
Well…. we’ve got a potential VP here who is “pro-life and can shoot”. Anyone notice the irony?
Lies:
Who (Palin’s daughter) is off for 5 months for mono? A week or two max should be expected, but 5 months?
Who is 6 months pregnant at 44 years old and doesn’t show (unless they are fat)? May I see a picture of her looking prego? Not one with these in them, please.
Palin’s water breaks and she proceeds to give a 30 minute speech and then takes an eight hour flight back to Alaska to deliver “her baby”? Defying all laws of science, much? Who did she think she was kidding, anyway?
Who pops out babies and then throws them into someone else’s hands to raise (while they play career woman) and has the audacity to call it their baby? (this applies to all parents) This isn’t a sexist remark. There is one extreme (sexism) and then the other extreme (an irresponsible parent or overboard feminism or Chicks with Dicks). What ever happened to balance? So, to prove one is shaping the way for women and equal rights, you can just hump like rabbits having kid after kid and continue having someone else do the “raising part” because a woman (god forbid) should not be in the home? Must we fight one extreme with another? That is where America has been for years: in an extreme rebellious state. And if the US is going down the tubes, this is one of the most damaging reasons. The family structure has broken down.
And I’m sick of hearing about “her daughter” with “Down Syndrome”. “Her daughter” doesn’t have “Down Syndrome”. She’s just another Republican, is all.
And no! I do not sympathize or admire one for having 5 children. It’s easy to get laid. It’s hard to raise a child. Have children and be an active responsible parent and then you just may impress me. And why must we all get down on our knees just because one has a Down Syndrome child? What a painful journey for ANY parent, but for the love of all that is holy, that does not make one MORE capable to take the White House should McCain croak (the guy’s only had cancer four times and additional extreme conditions)!
Fast forward to the present:
In all “fairness”, “the truth” has come out. But what explains all the lies beforehand? If she was “so proud” as she claimed to be in the above article, then why oh why had she not announced it saying, “my daughter is prego lego and just wow… I’m funna be a granny”! She really IS proud, right? Since God says that birth control is bad, I can see why she’s so proud. I wonder who daughter Palin is going to appoint the position of raising her child? Someone will have to bear the brunt. But wait. She chose life, so everything else is minutiae, right? Hmm…
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I’m also glad that Palin’s a good aim when she’s out there hunting, though. Hooray! The Right is having a field day over this news. At least we know she won’t be drawing blood from any lawyers out there.
Oh, this is all just so petty, anyway, right? It is none of my business just like John Edwards’ affair, Slick Willy’s killing spree, Obama’s lies, and what have you? What politician doesn’t have blood on their hands, anyway?
Leave the children alone?
What children? A 17 year old decided to make an ADULT choice by having unprotected sex and deciding to become a “mother”. If you are mature enough to make adult choices, than you are mature enough to be a symbol of the neo-con version of “abstinence”. And naturally, they are going to keep the baby. Sarah is and has been a politician for years. They don’t have a choice as to what to do with the baby as other Americans do. I’m still not impressed. The media is telling me that I am to feel compassion for them. That is sickening and only encouraging more people out there to be irresponsible and careless. But you are right. This has nothing to do with whether or not Palin will make a good Vice President.
In any event, I am guessing Palin is a “woman” who feels an obsessive/compulsive need to prove herself. We all know that if you don’t hunt, it is hard to get on the Republican ticket, so Palin makes the case for that. But she takes it to a further extreme and shoots wolves, bears, and moose from the air. Call me a hypocrite, though. I DO eat meat, fish, and lots of things with faces. But to get joy out of shooting random animals and watching them bleed for the sake of feeling accomplished and “an equal to men” is not something that I particularly find respect-worthy or impressive especially coming from a god-fearing and self-proclaimed “caring Christian”. We expect more from these people than their dirty atheist counterparts, anyway.
I don’t like Palin’s ideals (not writing about them all here), so count me in on the smear campaign. There is not one thing I like about this woman and her politics. These are my political beliefs, so you can probably see why. And Palin wants to teach creationism in PUBLIC schools??? Whatever happened to not teaching either creationism or evolution and letting kids decide for themselves if they want to be god-fearing or not? Where does critical thinking enter the picture? And this is public school we’re talking about – not a private Catholic school or a protestant school where there are 5 kids per class and one of the kid’s parents is the teacher.
Putting organized religion aside, why do any belief systems have to be shoved down anyone’s throat? Schools shouldn’t be religious or political. It should be revolved around EDUCATING and teaching people to THINK FOR THEMSELVES. It shouldn’t be about opinions. It should be about facts. Opinions should be properly noted as opinions. If any “ideals” are brought up, the teachers should take a NEUTRAL position. Shell out the facts and let kids decide for themselves. This has nothing to do with conservatism or liberalism. It is not political. This is common sense.
There’s not anything I like about Bush either – except that he does have a sense of humor, a nice smile sometimes, and has done some things right. Bush and McCain <—(our former Democrat) are just happy little misguided retards whereas Palin is just downright intentional and mean.
I think Mitt Romney would have been the better choice.
If McCain/Palin win this upcoming election, we will be even further on our way to “Idiocracy”. Seriously, watch this movie. I ask you only this favor. The below is only a modified trailer.
Note to all the noisy feminists out there: If you have to go out of your way PROVE you’re an EQUAL to men, then you’ve already lost. You remind me of “men” who are still trying to prove that they are girls men.
Watch this entire piece if you haven’t seen it yet. Watch it in full screen, even. Many liberal Americans including myself tire often from trying to explain what is patriotism to no avail. People in America and all over the world just don’t get it. Obama, during the middle of his acceptance speech explains American patriotism.
Additionally, many forget that it was American patriots that fought tooth and nail for freedom and independence from the unfair and often brutal British dominance long ago. Black people are where they are today because of their independent fight for freedom. Women are where they are today because of their fight for freedom. The list goes on. We are a nation of people who (most of us, generally)realize what’s wrong, and are a nation of fighters. We are still far from being perfect, but we continue to fight – even if the odds are against us – even though our Electoral Voting System is corrupt and unfair – even if we’re called “unAmerican” in the process, and even if the Anti-Americans STILL mindlessly lump us in with the “Uncouth Americans”. A true American never gives up. Why? Because we’re proud to be an American. It’s okay to be ashamed to be an American when things are rough, so long as we pick ourselves off the ground, kick the sand behind us and and continue to fight for what is right.
As you can see, none of these people I mention above fled north of America because “they felt persecuted”. They stayed to CHANGE it. This is what being American is all about. What’s broken? Let’s join together and FIX it.
You can’t do that if you don’t vote. You can’t do that unless you put your foot down and say, “no more”.
My own personal definition of what it means to be patriotic:
Most Anti-Americans will tell you that Patriotism is defined as unconditionally accepting its leader and every crooked thing that a government may do. But I beg to differ. Patriotism for me is being able to say that you’re proud of where you were born and have the willingness to defend your country from verbal slander or violent attacks. True Patriotism also believes in free speech in that if we disagree with what our government is doing, we will question it. Patriots don’t always approve blindly of every decision made by our administration. Patriotism also believes that you can be a progressive-minded liberal and still be a patriot. Patriotism is ALWAYS optimistic, believes in change, and sees room for improvement when needed. If Patriotism doesn’t speak up and try to make changes, then our ancestors that died for this freedom, died for nothing.
I don’t know if you had a chance to follow Obama’s trip across Europe. I watched several reports in the German news, then in the French news, and he was unanimously being cheered like a rock star. As a French loving and living in the United States, I was pleased to see those pictures of true “pro-Americanism” in Europe. But I wonder how the American voters may react, and I thought this blog might be a good place to get some answers.
How does it feel as an American citizen to see a presidential candidate being praised by an overwhelming crowd of more than 20,000 or 200,000 Germans? How do American voters react watching a French president welcoming Obama as an almost-president of the United States and clearly endorsing his candidacy?
In a recent survey of 6,200 people in Europe by YouGov, Obama was favored by an overwhelming majority in Italy (70% vs 15% for Mc Cain), Germany (67% vs. 6%) and in France (65% vs. 8%). Only Russia (surprisingly considered as part of Europe in that survey) would support Obama by only 34% and gives Mc Cain a decent 28% credit (see here for more results and comments on this poll). This strong support lies in the perception that Obama would lead America in a way that better matches the European interests as well. He’s regarded by many Europeans as a kind of messiah, who will finally get the most powerful nation in the world back to reason: fighting Al-Quaeda where it really lies in Afghanistan – not in Iraq – and eventually joining European nations in their fight against climate change. Again, this is the general perception in Europe (please do not draw conclusions about my personal views on this .
Europeans – and especially the French – have great interest in the coming American election. By supporting Obama, my opinion is that they favor change in the French-American relationship rather than Obama’s program for change. In Berlin, most of the crowd that cheered Obama did not even speak English, and a lot may have joined just to be part of a mediatic event. However, I like to see it as a gathering against anti-Americanism, and a hope for renewed friendship after a long period of tense diplomacy.
You tell me if American voters may trust a candidate with such suspicious friends abroad (facts are: the European support did not really help John Kerry enter the White House!). But I can tell you this: this “simple U.S. Senator” – as he presented himself – did more for America’s image across Europe in 3 days than the entire Bush administration in a decade (and this is a personal opinion you can now sneer at) )
Earlier Friday afternoon, she told the editorial board of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Argus Leader that “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said.
“I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A.”
Uh huh. Was she “worried about Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor” then, too?
I wrote this post a while back in response to the popular notion that Americans (white Americans) “mold” every person that decides to immigrate to the US into doing things the “All-American-White-Way” in that we train immigrants to be obnoxious, obese, racists, stupid, and greedy.
I must say, I’m increasingly getting sick and tired of people accusing American-whites left, right, and center of being “racist”. It infuriates me that just because of the color of my skin and where I was born (had no control over that, by the way), I am assumed to automatically be a “racist”. Interestingly enough, the African Americans are nowhere near as noisy about “racism” as the “cultural elitist” white population in Canada or Europe… who have never stepped foot in the US. And if someone can tell me how Caucasians are “oppressing” the blacks in the US, I’d really love to know. Yes, I’m aware that hate crimes exist. Yes, I’m aware that racism STILL exists in America. Yes, I feel that it’s wrong. But coming from Americanophobic Canadians and Europeans who claim to have the “upper hand” on “worldly matters” are nothing more than *clueless* as to what truly is both going on in the states and in other countries (including their own) abroad.
My friends, it’s “Guilt by Association” – just for being White (…and living in the US). Let me start off with this video:
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“There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States….critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses–without deliberately losing sight of America’s wise decisions, beneficient interventions and salutary policies. But critiques of this kind–balanced, fair and well-rounded–are hard to find, except in America herself…” — Jean-Francois Revel
"The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in Europe in general, and particularly among those on the Left, is to absolve themselves of their own moral failings and intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. The U.S. is charged with all the evils, real or imagined, that afflict humanity, from the falling price of beef in France to AIDS in Africa and global warming everywhere. The result is a widespread refusal to accept responsibility for one's own actions." — Jean-Francois Revel
"Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest, You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of "24" and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning." --the Berlin bureau chief of Der Spiegel
"Of course some Americans are stupid, but... "It all boils down to the fact that knowledge and intelligence are two different issues. Rote memorization of world capitals does not equate intelligence.
I do find it interesting that Canadians and Europeans have such strong opinions on this, considering that there are many more pressing issues to be concerned about. Perhaps the steady Canadian and European refrain of "Americans are stupid" is a reflection of their own deep-rooted insecurity. You know -- an inferiority complex." --Mohammed
"As an American, please allow me to begin by asserting that our nation has had its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and its failures, and its justices and injustices throughout history and continuing into the present. Although I sense much patriotism for my homeland, I recognize our need for humility to understand that our country is not above questioning or reproach but is rather under the same standards as all other nations of the world. I would simply like to ask those who view our country from afar to maintain a balanced perspective and realize too that there exists good and bad in America, both in terms of its domestic society and politics as well as in its relations with other nations.
Whilst there may be growing anti-Americanism in the United Kingdom I do not believe such sentiment to be reciprocated on our side of the Atlantic. I viewed a recent survey that indicated most Americans view England positively, and never have I seen the flag of your country (or any other foreign land, for that matter) burned in the streets of our cities. Clearly we as American citizens have not meant to be your enemies." --Seth
"As someone who takes human rights seriously, I'm appalled by the lack of sympathy the left feels toward the victims of any regime other than the Bush administration. Let's shout it to prisoners everywhere: If you're not harmed by an American, your suffering doesn't count." --Erik Svane
"Ambivalence, antipathy, and resentment toward and about the United States have comprised an important component of European culture since the American Revolution at the latest, thus way before America became the world's 'Mr. Big' -- the proverbial eight-hundred-pound gorilla -- and a credible rival to Europe's main powers, particularly Britain and France . . . . While the politics, style, and discourse of the Bush administration -- and of George W. Bush as a person -- have undoubtedly exacerbated anti-American sentiment among Europeans and fostered a heretofore unmatched degree of unity between elite and mass opinion in Europe, they are not anti-Americanism's cause. Indeed, a change to a center-left administration in Washington, led by a Democratic president, would not bring about its abatement, let alone disappearance." --Andrei S. Markovits (author of Uncouth Nation - Why Europe Dislikes America)
"Is Euro Disney Land a threat to the French Culture? If French culture can be squashed by Mickey Mouse, or more exactly by simply moving Mickey geographically, it would have to be disturbingly fragile." Moreover, Revel argued, culture always circulates and, in the case of Euro Disneyland, California was merely repackaging for Europeans such European stories as Cinderella and Pinocchio. According to Revel, French culture was not being colonized and if any culture was in crisis, he contended, it was that of America with its fad for political correctness and other forms of "neoprovincialism." --Jean-François Revel
"Anti-Americanism is the only face of xenophobia still broadly accepted in Europe." --Mary Fitzgerald (New Statesman)
"Americans find themselves damned either way. If they remain within their own borders, they are isolationist hicks who are shirking their responsibilities. If they intervene, they are rapacious imperialists." --To hate America is to hate mankind
"The British find it very difficult to come to terms with the loss of their global dominance. We felt a deep sense of hurt and loss. We used to run the world, and we don’t anymore. So, in order to palliate that insecurity, we tend to run ourselves down too much. And we’re also snooty about the people who DO run the world." -- Boris Johnson (Member of Parliament)
"It is tragic that Anti-American ideas are so easily passed through rumour, while reconciliatory ideas and notions must be backed up with catalogues of evidence before they are even considered, purely because of the fact that it is so much easier to hate than to keep an objective open mind." --David Hatton
"Other common anti-American objections are ignorance and stupidity. In dealing with these two, I have no reason to suspect that the average American is any less intelligent than the average person from anywhere else. One trait I have noticed is that other cultures are generally much more ashamed of any deficit in the intellect of the individual, especially ours (the British), and as such will make a much greater attempt to hide it. If all cultures bar one are scared of looking stupid and take action to prevent that happening, then that one remaining culture is inevitably going to be lumbered with that image." --David Hatton
"We became not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." --Jimmy Carter
"Most of the anti-Americanism these days stems from plain old nationalistic jealousy by a lot of countries that are born of insecurity about their own place in the world and their painful self awareness of their own failings and shortcomings...like the kids in the next block who are jealous of the boy who has a better bicycle or a newer fancier skateboard....phuque 'em all." --Robbins Mitchell
"Europeans, like the rest of the world, hate America and Americans, but love our aid when in distress, and our soldiers to die for THEIR COUNTRIES. You need to work, live and pay taxes from this side of the Atlantic to understand our vision of Europe and the rest of the world." --Jerry
"Unjustified hatred of Americans:
There is much unjustified hatred in the world. There is unjustified hatred of the USA. Much of this arises from the victimisation complex that sweeps much of mankind. Whoever is in charge, whoever is powerful or successful will also be hated. This immature hatred often evaporates quickly with a little reason or thought. There are some some invalid, unjustified criticisms. The most widespread hate is the hate by people the world over who fall victim to their own shortcomings, and want a scapegoat." --Vexen Crabtree
"USA citizens are not given world news in the same way as most the other developed nations, and may well be genuinely unaware that much of the world is as poor as it is. European news is highly world-centric, whereas due to its size most USA news does not have enough time to cover news in all neighbouring states, let alone news from around the world. " --Vexen Crabtree
"Despite the USA's dominance of mass media, it is frequently only the pro-USA, self-congratulatory messages that seem to arrive in Europe, the USA citizens criticism and disbelief of their own government is not apparent, which gives the overall impression that Americans are either gullible, ignorant or honestly uncaring." --Vexen Crabtree
"If a person outside of American culture is a hateful person, they may actively hate and verbally attack America. If the person takes this to include a hatred of Americans themselves, they are inconsiderate and have become a fool. If a person like this is brought up by people with vested interests in attacking America (and there are many), a person can be driven to take his opinions to a violent level. Generic hatred is not solved or soothed by adding more layers of hatred.
There is a belief and hope that if enough nations oppose America, the American people will realize what their government has been doing and will overthrow them. This hope is misguided, as anti-American actions are causing the opposite"--Vexen Crabtree
"I think it is best, when faced with people from other nations, to treat them as individuals. Yes, you can "hate" the injustices that governments perpetuate on us all, and yes, you can despise ignorance in all its' forms. But any sort of blanket prejudice punishes yourself more than anyone else, because it thwarts the opportunity to learn from someone else. It stops you from making potential connections that could ultimately change your life. As an "american" living abroad, I pity my fellow countrymen who still have the wool over their eyes, but I don't hate them. The fact that when I meet them, they are indeed traveling at the time, says to me that they are in the process of opening their minds. Being in Europe, for many Americans, is the first step to realizing that other cultures do indeed exist and thrive, and that other forms of social structures are both possible and desireable.
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Many ask me why I left. Political reasons aside, when I mention that my family now enjoys free health-care and that my daughter will have the opportunity to go to university virtually for free (O.K. not free exactly, because we all pay taxes, but these services are included in what we as citizens receive for our tax dollars here in Europe,) they always respond with a sigh as they realize that this is the way all societies should be run. They know that something has gone terribly afoul in their beloved "homeland."
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Americans, in essence, need to be re-taught what is possible in the world, they do not need to be shunned. Shunning them will only help to produce more negativity in the world. If we all, from without, can help them to change what is wrong with their country from within, by sharing our knowledge of alternatives, then the whole world will benefit." --Lily
"Sometimes the caliber of a nation is found not in why it is liked, but rather in why it is not." --Victor Davis Hanson
"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." --Winston Churchill
"With a military that has become a laughing stock and her increasing irrelevance in the world around her, I believe that the Canada I know and loved is gone. The sad truth is, Canadians have only themselves to blame since they meekly chose to accept everything without question and without fighting back. Most of them even pat themselves on the back for being so “progressive” and “multicultural” and “diverse,” while failing to recognize that all of those things will bring about Canada’s demise. America may not be perfect, but at least there is a strong conservative movement and a population who will fight to keep their rights." --Jayne Gardener (Why I left Canada)
"Regarding Race Relations in the South:
I once read an observation that ONE (and there are many) of the differences between the Northern and Southern approach to race is that the North tends to reject the Individual while embracing the Race. The South conversely seems to have prejudice towards the other Race while embracing the Individuals. It's a generalization to be sure but one with more than a grain of truth.
Blacks and Whites have always lived closely in the South, most southerners have an aquantince of another race whom they like, while at the same time generalizing about the 'others'.
The North has always been more segregated and less mixed in ordinary commerce and interaction. They accept the race but interact with few individuals of another group. Leading to less real experience with the other group. Fewer Northerners subsequently have friends of a different race.
I think we a need to be cautious when making these generalizations but I believe they still offer food for comment.
I guess I'm just saying that one shouldn't assume the South has a less open society because of some who have lingering, isolated, racist attitudes towards 'Canadians'. It just seems that these notions, are more exposed, and carry more gravity due to their past. --JG (reply #70)
"My “two cents” to all you Americans out there: speaking as a Brit, it pains me to see some of the comments emanating from this page by alleged British sophisticates. Much of the real reason for anti-Americanism of this type — though it will be hotly denied — is nothing more than envy. Truth be told, many an Englishman yearns for the day when we were the number one dog in town, with the world sitting obediently at the feet of hordes of short-back-and sides public school boys lording it over primitive tribes of Africans and Asians, whilst men such as Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill sincerely speculated on the chances of the USA being welcomed back into the imperial bosom.
Americans, don't lose heart; you are the great power of the age. It is your lot to be envied and feared. Do not fall for the soft hearted illusion that this translates into moral superiority of any variety." --James
"It is sick that to be Canadian one must hate other people. I've been to US hundreds of times and England as well and they never equate their nationality with hatred of others. It seems we are a nation of people that are in serious need of therapy. Thank god I enjoy visiting other countries and felt no need to hate or denigrate others. When ever I go to United States or England I always leave the Canadian stuff at home and I get along just fine. I would recommend this for others." --Nov. 12th, 2005 5:08PM
"The only thing more annoying that a 'typical American' (and they do exist!) is a Canadian with a superiority complex! Americans do get the piss ripped out of them behind their backs but with the flag on your pack you probably will as well." --travoholic
"I grew up on army bases my whole life and nothing makes me prouder than watching Canadian soldiers do what they can, when they can, to help out more impoverished nations. I do, however, become angered at people who begin talking about who has the better, or bigger army and who can beat whom. Soldiers sacrifice their lives for the betterment of mankind, not to win pissing contests." --Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:12 pm
"I attribute European anti-Americanism to a state of prolonged “adolescence” from being protected by American treasure and military might throughout the post-WW2 era. I think about how teenagers rail against their parents actions and restrictions, all the while knowing, deep down, that they cannot provide for themselves.
On a somewhat lighter note, there was a program on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) a while back about why Europeans don’t like America. One interviewee attributed it to the Europeans knowing that America won’t hurt them." --Denis Eugene Sullivan
"In spite of the constant accusations of “arrogance,” Americans are really very self-deprecating in many ways and often place the French, and other Western Europeans, on a pedestal of cultural superiority; this probably goes further back into world history than virulent anti-Americanism does." --Jennifer
"Yes, anti-Americanism is a sad reality all over the world. I feel its simply part of "hatred of the superpower". Britian for most of its empire's history was mocked harshly by English speaking colonies and much of mainland Europe. Nobody likes the "big kid on the block". I think the fact that American media plays a more dominant role in English speaking societies around the world further reminds us of our inferiority complexes.
In short, America's ok with me. I can only hope that reason and the shedding of jealous ignorance can let other people see that America isn't that bad." --Matt
"Conservatives love America the way a six year old loves his mother. Mommy is perfect, don’t be mean to mommy, etc… Liberals, according to me, have a grown-up love for America — the kind that recognizes faults and works to improve the nation out of love." --Al Franken
See, in Sean Anna’s world, God doesn’t love all of his people. Just a select few. You know… the Radical Republican Christian Fundamentalists. That’s it. Anybody else is going to hell like me. Well, at least Hell will contain the majority of us. 
We have always been perceived as a bunch of typical, inbred, insular, nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, uncouth, vulgar, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, self-centered, and globalizing Neanderthal Americans.
And like I’ve mentioned many times in my blog, 
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We haven’t ever heard a peep out of them until the extremist right-winger divisive, clueless and cowardly Palin arrived on the scene. Now, all liberals are sexist and jealous. 
The “straight talker” also blamed her inability to answer any questions based on the fact that she is not a part of the “Washington Elite”. 
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More Proof that Obama is a Republican
In Election 2008, Strange News, War and Politics, Wordpress Political Blogs on November 30, 2008 at 9:52 AMI still cannot understand why the Right continues to moan, whine, and groan. Obama is Bush’s 3rd term like I said here. And here is more proof!!!!
Hey, isn’t this the kind of political INcorrectness that make the far Right go goo goo?
By the way, have you seen Obama’s latest panel of economic advisors compared to McCains???