17 posts tagged “politics”
The gorilla puts it over the top for me.
http://www.bleedtheworld.com/
SOOOOO happy about our new President. I think it's so amazing and wonderful. I am thrilled that my sons will know him as their first President. I think that little tiny fact alone offers great possibilities for the future.
I don't envy the poor guy's job though. He's crazy to have wanted to be PoTUS with the state we're in.
Busy, tired, okay.
Doing a weird interview thing for a tv show this Saturday. The mister pushed me to do it. I never do these things. Never. Scared shitless. Can't even think about it.
Mister is involved in a book festival all weekend and is feeling overwhelmed by it. Just gotta get through it.
Moonpie WAS doing great sleeping and is now waking up every couple of hours again. I think it's his teeth. My guys teethe early on and it messes up their sleep. Still, he's SO cute.
Monkey is beautiful. Talking. Singing. Last night he loved the Tootsie Roll song. He was a dino for Halloween and had a great time.
Off to get the little dudes. I miss them.
We voted last night at the mall. It felt good. Actually, I got a little teary standing there in line. It was a steady stream of people, everyone doing this really important thing. I liked it. Of course, I don't like that some of those people were there voting for that crazy old guy, but hey, it's their right, right?
The way that Palin is talking about abortion is really, really out of line.
Palin also talked about a remark Obama made about sex education while campaigning in Johnstown in March, when he told a voter he didn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" or "punished with an STD" if they were not educated about sex and made a mistake.
"So I listened when our opponent defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions and he said he said that a woman shouldn't have to be 'Punished with a baby,'" Palin said as the audience jeered the Democratic nominee. "Ladies and gentlemen, he said that right here in Johnstown. 'Punished with a baby.' It's about time we called him on it."
Call him on what? Of course he doesn't think that babies in general are punishment. Duh. She knows it too. You mean like she's punishing her own teenage daughter by making her have a baby in the political spotlight?
Ridiculous.
She's full of shit.
And in that article it says that she's saying he is really, really radical on abortion. Like what? He's handing our free abortion cards at his rallies?
AHHHH!
I dreamed last night that Obama lost. I had a horrible sense of crashing and loss. Defeat. So sad. I kept telling people that it couldn't be true. That this was our first real chance of getting someone new in the White House. I couldn't believe it.
I hope it's not a premonition.
It would be so amazing if he won.
Did you see the latest Couric interview with McSame and Paleface? Now he's talking about Gotcha Journalism. Saying he's seen it all before. For these two, any journalism is gotcha' journalism. Especially any journalism that helps uncover how much this woman doesn't know about the world landscape. Insane. These people are insane assholes. Even Katie seems to give up at the end of this. Like, Forget it, you people are just going to say crazy shit and there's nothing I can do about it.
Don't want to get my hopes up that people are actually thinking these days. I know too much about polls and polling to believe this. Right?
How come there is no shame for all of these messed up investment banks that we're currently socializing and bailing out. The soon-to-be-former-president doesn't seem to mind keeping them from going under. He wants everything done asap. But what about the people who run these banks? Do they ever get to do a walk of shame or have to be held accountable for anything? I understand that we're bailing them so that lots of other people don't lose their jobs and savings. But just like Enron and the others, who are the people in charge and why aren't they experiencing any shame. I also understand that our economic policies and culture that lead to these crises, but now it's become everyone's problem. When will this end?
Okay, so maybe you already know all about the McSames. I didn't. I thought I knew enough. But last week I read a profile of Cindy McSame in the New Yorker. Again, maybe you already know this but check this out...
"Earlier this year, at a town-hall meeting at the Fantasy of Flight aircraft museum, in Polk City, Florida, Cindy McCain introduced her husband, the Republican Presidential nominee, with a speech about the nature of “the man.” There are, she said, many things “that make a great man, but being a good father and a good husband are most important to me.” She wore a tight black leather blazer over a black turtleneck, and her hair was styled stiffly in a ponytail. “I was working one day, one day a long, long time ago, in Bangladesh,” McCain said. “I stumbled upon a little girl in Mother Teresa’s orphanage, and she had a really bad cleft palate and she was sick and tiny and she was only ten weeks old. And I got to know her a little bit, and I was with her for quite a while. Mother Teresa—as only she could do at that time—prevailed upon me and said, You know, you can get help for her. You could, you can get her out . . . and, being a tenacious woman, I thought, Yeah! I can. Sure.”
McCain said that on the flight home from Bangkok she “realized that this child had chosen me and I could not give her up.” But there was something even more remarkable: “What you don’t know about this story is I didn’t tell my husband.” McCain smiled mischievously as she said that, and several members of the audience tittered. “I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, with this baby in my arms, and in front of a thousand reporters and a whole lot of people he whispered down to me and said, ‘Well, where’s she going to go?’ And I said, ‘I thought she’d come to our house.’ And he looked at her and he loved her just the way I have ever since. And I think that says a great deal about the man.”
McCain’s account of bringing home a daughter without first informing her husband of her decision has become the core of the Cindy stump speech. She revisits the narrative routinely in her brief but frequent campaign appearances, and the Republican National Committee offered a version of it in a video that was played before her speech at the Convention last week. Almost every friend of the McCains with whom I spoke offered his or her own retelling of the tale. It is fact and fable: last month, the Christian Science Monitor reported that Mother Teresa was not actually at that orphanage at the time of Cindy McCain’s visit. (The McCain campaign subsequently revised the story on its Web site.) The story certainly helps to portray John McCain as openhearted and charitable. But it also happens to reflect the nearly separate lives lived by the two McCains, and the peculiar defiance that is characteristic of Cindy—a woman who claims to pride herself on being traditional."
You know what this story means to me? It says that these two are so f'ed up that in order to adopt a child she felt that she had to TRAP her insane husband in front of reporters so that he couldn't say NO! That's what it says to me! Not that he is openhearted and charitable, but that he is crazy and she knew that he would say NO unless she TRAPPED him! THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.
Oh, and by the way, Mother Teresa wasn't there at the time. Cindy just added that little detail to make it more compelling. (WHO invokes Mother Teresa in a lie?!?)
Oh, and by the way, she had a painkiller addiction not unlike the pain that Betty Friedan talked about in The Feminine Mystique.
Oh, and by the way, her daddy had a first family that he left and started a second family for--just like her husband! And even though her daddy had 2 kids in that first family, she claims that she is an only child--to their faces! F'ed up!
These people are so scary and weird and twisted we should all run away. But I'm sure that the Republican angle is that, just like Sarah Palin's knocked-up daughter makes her more human and real, McSame's f'ed up marriage and absent-fatherhood makes him more real as well. NO WAY! RUN! RUN!
