it was a very short vacation from politics
i was prepared to go home and spend some halcyon days and nights with rhonda, my dogs and the summertime ever inviting pool. i wanted to quit writing about politics and the upcoming election and maybe just write some funny stories to practice for my new writing gig here in vegas but alas and alack john mc same will not let me do it. just when i think i have covered everything i dislike about this man; his flip flops on important issues such as roe v. wade or offshore drilling, his keetowing to the religious right (i don't think jesus would recognize many of these people...but maybe i am wrong, maybe jesus was a bigot....nah, he wasn't...but they are, or at least a good number of them are), his desire to continue the disasterous economic policies of george, the decider, his lack of information and knowledge about the middle east as to the causes behind that cauldron of continuing catastrophies, his use of his wartime experiences as if they were, somehow or another, a qualification for the highest office in the land, his "straight talk express" that puts out lies and half-truths or his lack of knowledge when it comes to financial affairs. surely that would be enough to discourage any person from voting for this grumpy old man. surely. however, yesterday, i found an even bigger and much more important reason not to vote for mc same.
sunday's new york times had some quotes from the erstwhile senator from arizona right after 9-11. (i left the damn paper on the plane so i can only give the gist of his remarks but you can look them up if you doubt me) mc cain was calling for attacks on iraq, iran and syria as a lesson to "those people" that THEY can't do this to us. well, first of all, who is THEY? there were 19 highjackers and 15 of them were saudis. none were iraqi. none were syrian. none were iranian. so who is THEY? john mc cain, like the neo cons in the white house, WANTED TO GO TO WAR over 9-11. he, like they, was not interested in whether or not iraq, iran or syria had anything at all to do with the attack. he spouted LIES about how al qaida had ties to iraq. he spouted LIES about iraq's supposed wmd's. he goes on a navy ship and "shouts" to the crew, "next stop baghdad."
NOW IF JOHN MC CAIN WANTS TO MAKE SENATOR OBAMA'S SO-CALLED LACK OF EXPERIENCE AN ISSUE THEN HE HAS TO EXPLAIN HIS DECISION TO GO TO WAR IN 2002! BEFORE WE INVADED IRAQ, MC CAIN WAS BEATING THE DRUMS OF WAR. AND WE NOW KNOW THAT LITERALLY EVERYTHING JOHN MC CAIN SAID WAS TRUE WAS FALSE. THIS IS HIS EXPERIENCE? THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD ELECT HIM?
brothers and sisters, this is a dangerous man. maybe even more dangerous than bush.
JOHN MC CAIN HAS SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE CHOSEN DICK CHENEY AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT!!!!! GOOD FUCKING GOD!
john mc cain has tried oh, so mightly, to make this election about senator obama. why don't we make this election about john mc cain? senator mc cain has no NEW THOUGHTS, no NEW IDEAS, he is just another warmongering, lying neo-con who would continue the downward spiral of america. he thinks in terms of war. his FIRST reaction was KILL 'EM! and he didn't even know who to kill. instead of going after the person who did this, mc cain wanted to bomb and/or attack three different countries who had DONE NOTHING TO US.
if we elect this guy, we deserve every fucking thing that happens to us, just as we deserve what is going on today; our never-ending wars and the deep recession that we are surely in. millions out of jobs, millions losing their homes, inflation running amuck and george, the decider, on vacation. elect john mc cain and get more of the same. elect senator obama and we have a chance of changing course but with senator mc same is will be more of the same.
oh, and one more thing on a much more positive level: the troops in iraq are giving money to senator obama by a 6-1 ratio over senator mc cain. the troops on the ground know the difference. they don't want to be there. that isn't what they signed up for. they signed up for protecting their country. not to go kill civilians who had never done anything to us until we invaded them.
and by the way, when are we going to get osama bin laden?
sunday's new york times had some quotes from the erstwhile senator from arizona right after 9-11. (i left the damn paper on the plane so i can only give the gist of his remarks but you can look them up if you doubt me) mc cain was calling for attacks on iraq, iran and syria as a lesson to "those people" that THEY can't do this to us. well, first of all, who is THEY? there were 19 highjackers and 15 of them were saudis. none were iraqi. none were syrian. none were iranian. so who is THEY? john mc cain, like the neo cons in the white house, WANTED TO GO TO WAR over 9-11. he, like they, was not interested in whether or not iraq, iran or syria had anything at all to do with the attack. he spouted LIES about how al qaida had ties to iraq. he spouted LIES about iraq's supposed wmd's. he goes on a navy ship and "shouts" to the crew, "next stop baghdad."
NOW IF JOHN MC CAIN WANTS TO MAKE SENATOR OBAMA'S SO-CALLED LACK OF EXPERIENCE AN ISSUE THEN HE HAS TO EXPLAIN HIS DECISION TO GO TO WAR IN 2002! BEFORE WE INVADED IRAQ, MC CAIN WAS BEATING THE DRUMS OF WAR. AND WE NOW KNOW THAT LITERALLY EVERYTHING JOHN MC CAIN SAID WAS TRUE WAS FALSE. THIS IS HIS EXPERIENCE? THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD ELECT HIM?
brothers and sisters, this is a dangerous man. maybe even more dangerous than bush.
JOHN MC CAIN HAS SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE CHOSEN DICK CHENEY AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT!!!!! GOOD FUCKING GOD!
john mc cain has tried oh, so mightly, to make this election about senator obama. why don't we make this election about john mc cain? senator mc cain has no NEW THOUGHTS, no NEW IDEAS, he is just another warmongering, lying neo-con who would continue the downward spiral of america. he thinks in terms of war. his FIRST reaction was KILL 'EM! and he didn't even know who to kill. instead of going after the person who did this, mc cain wanted to bomb and/or attack three different countries who had DONE NOTHING TO US.
if we elect this guy, we deserve every fucking thing that happens to us, just as we deserve what is going on today; our never-ending wars and the deep recession that we are surely in. millions out of jobs, millions losing their homes, inflation running amuck and george, the decider, on vacation. elect john mc cain and get more of the same. elect senator obama and we have a chance of changing course but with senator mc same is will be more of the same.
oh, and one more thing on a much more positive level: the troops in iraq are giving money to senator obama by a 6-1 ratio over senator mc cain. the troops on the ground know the difference. they don't want to be there. that isn't what they signed up for. they signed up for protecting their country. not to go kill civilians who had never done anything to us until we invaded them.
and by the way, when are we going to get osama bin laden?
posted by Ron Shock | 8:18 AM
3 Comments:
I have to say, Ron, that you have more faith in the electorial system than I do. Keep writing, because I want to believe. I used to believe, but I don't now. It seems to me that all media about the election is hyperbole. Do we have popular vote yet? NO. Has there been any election reform since the last two fiascoes called elections? NO. Will the electorial college (designed for an ignorant populace) and/or supreme court and/or "the decider" himself decide for us if we don't vote the way they want? YES! More people voting, one way or the other, changes nothing if our vote means nothing. Here is a simple example, using my vote. I live in Texas. That means, like all Americans, I can vote for Barack Obama or Cynthia McKinney or I can write in Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, but my vote for president will really actually be handed over to John McCain - just like the last two elections when my vote was given to Bush just because I'm a Texan. (In what universe does it make sense that I end up voting for the administration that has destroyed our country????) But hey, at least the candidates campaign in Texas. Some states never even see the candidates because those states are, unlike bellweather states, "unimportant". Just like our votes are unimportant. I therefore have adopted a new political slogan - Don't vote - REVOLT!
Besides, Obama looks too much like the evil system lord, Apophis.
yeah, i know. we go around the world promoting democracy at the point of a gun but we don't have it here. if we had "one person, one vote" our history would be much different...ie. idiot george would never have been elected. the e. college is outdated but on the other hand, tyranny by the majority is a potential problem when you have large urban populations voting as well as very small rural states...oh well, what we have is not perfect but it beats most other things. europe can "do" democracy because each country is small and, in their way, united.
We forget a lot of the time how large this country is. Going about our day-to-day routine most of us only see a handful of people. But it IS large, and it IS diverse. Most countries only have one "sort" of people. Most Europeans can identify with their country more closely because they all look the same. I met a fellow form India once who was as dark as an Indian can be, but his facial features were different because of one of his parents was Japanese. This garnered him many stares on the trains.
I guess what I'm saying is, this is a big place with a lot of people, and it's VERY hard to run. I'm not sure what the alternative would be for a country this size.
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