Not a whole lot to say tonight... I think. I'm watching the World Series right now (go Phillies!) and just wanted to make sure I got something up here tonight as I didn't last night. We'll see where this goes as I start typing and see what pops into my head and out to my keyboard.
- I Lost My Way
First, I have to get something off my chest.
I kind of have lost my way on this blog.
Obviously if you read my first post or the initial email I sent out to a lot of people, I've been pro-Obama from the beginning. However, my intention was not just to point out the faults of the McCain campaign. I really wanted to be as even keel as possible and make sure people got the arguments from both sides.
However, something happened along the way: I just couldn't do it any more. The more I dug into things, the more I read the plans, the more I listened to what was being said, the more I heard the hypocrisy and down-right lies coming from the Republican campaign, ... well, I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do something that would give any credence to what the Republicans have been doing. I had to do what I could to show why the McCain ticket would be wrong for this country and why Obama would be right. So that's what has happened.
I will also say this: At the beginning of this blog I challenged anyone to give me information from the Republican side of things that would show me I was wrong. To show my why McCain would be better, to show me proof that what Obama's been saying is not true, to give me anything that would seriously make me have to reconsider my stance. It hasn't been done. I don't think it CAN be done. I just can't see it.
So, anyway, if you came here looking for unbiased commentary and a bi-partisan look at things, I'm sorry. I tried. I really did. But the more I looked I just have not been able to agree with almost anything the McCain campaign has done. Maybe we'll try that again in 4 years.
- Cracks In The Armor
So as things have started to go down hill for the Republicans, the infighting has started.
- First there's McCain taking a bunch of shots at President Bush from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/23/mccain-lashes-out-at-bushs-record/
I love this. McCain votes with Bush 90% of the time, basically saying he supports almost all of Bush's policies, but then wants to act like he was against them all along.
Of course, Obama had a lot of fun with those comments. He said:
"He denounced the President for letting things get completely out of hand–that's what he said," Obama told a crowd in Reno. "In fact, John McCain is so opposed to George Bush's policies, that he voted with him 90 percent of the time for the first eight years. That's right, he decided to really stick it to George Bush - 10 percent of the time."
"So, let's be clear. John McCain attacking George Bush for his out-of-hand economic policy is like Dick Cheney attacking George Bush for his go-it-alone foreign policy. What Joe Biden says - it's like Tonto getting mad at the Lone Ranger." (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/25/obama-again-mocks-mccain-over-ties-to-bush/)
Hee hee!
- Then there's also talk of infighting now in the McCain campaign as staffers feel that Sarah Palin is only starting to look out for her best interests. McCain aids suggest Palin is "going rogue": http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
Here's another story about how she's doing things her own way now: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081025/pl_politico/14929;_ylt=Ak21P0PnHrYJoTTcR2EONP5snwcF
Why should this surprise anyone? Palin has a history of turning against people in her own party and the people who work for her for any reason she wants (or no reason) if it will help further her agenda or career.
- Here's an article from when she first became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and she asked all of the city's top managers to resign: http://www.mceades.com/graphics/palin_article1.jpg
- Here's an article about how she fired Wasilla's librarian and police chief, although the librarian later got her job back: http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510219.html
- She turned against the fellow members of her own party in Alaska: http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8337406p-8233470c.html
(These three references come from her Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin)
- Here's an article from the New York Times that talks all about "Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
You get what you ask for. You ask someone like Sarah Palin to join your ticket, you get someone who is only out for herself and her interests, as her history has shown. Is this someone we want in a position to run our country? I think not.
- Here's another article about how things are going, people are infighting, and starting to try to jump ship and place blame: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081024/pl_politico/14891;_ylt=Ard93VR93veUd1I21AUetTJsnwcF
- In trying to research Palin's history as a turncoat, I found this article on the Huffington Post (admitted: very pro-Liberal) about how anti-women's issues Sarah Palin is: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/manisha-sinha/sarah-palin-and-the-betra_b_126213.html
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It baffles me that women who were pro-Hillary Clinton would now be pro-Palin. They couldn't be more opposites.
- Well, well, well! Here's an interesting article. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081026/ap_on_el_pr/palin_pipeline;_ylt=AiUKBgS6UuCUmoF6nOvXMRpsnwcF
So the big natural gas pipeline that Sarah Palin has been touting as one of her major accomplishments? Yeah... The Associated Press did some investigating into that and it turns out that the company that won the bid, TransCanada Corp., was given a lot of special incentives and that the bidding process was maneuvered in such a way to allow them to win over bigger, more well know companies. AND the leader of Palin's team had been a partner at a lobbying firm that worked for TransCanada Corp. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team.
So how about that? Miss Reformer, Miss Maverick working the system to get things done how she wanted them. Nice!
- Things are looking good...
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