First let me start with my own political philosophy....
I believe in the death penalty - in fact I'm all for putting in an express lane.
I believe in a strong military however, we shouldn't be responsible for policing the world when we can't even police our own back yards.
I believe that morals and ethics should be taught at home - not in our schools and not left to just our churches.
I believe in a hand up and not a hand out - we need to find a way to fix a system that perpetuates 3rd and 4th generation welfare recipients.
I don't believe in creationism or evolution - I think it is intelligent design. I don't think believing one means you have to exclude the other.
I'm pro-choice even though it wouldn't be the choice I would make that doesn't give me the right - either politically, morally or ethically to inflict my position on another woman and heaven help the man that tries to tell me or any of the strong women I know what to do with their bodies.
Our education system is broken, our financial system is broken, and our families are broken. We can sit back and blame it on one party or the other but both are to blame. I don't vote based on party lines I vote based on issues and who fits my own belief system. That's a big issue in our country - there are too many hard core party line people who won't step outside their comfort zone and really look at the issues and who has the better plan to change what our country currently faces.
Am I an Obama supporter?? Yes. Did I look at both candidates before making my decision? Yes. For the last few years, we've been faced with dumb and dumber for our choices. We have to pick from the lesser of the evils. So I sat down, I watched every debate and I fact checked. How many of those who criticize my posts do that? I used these opportunities as a chance to have free and open dialogue with my children about our countries future and we researched together what each candidate had to say. I found a few things a little interesting.
I went to UNBIASED sources. If you go to the tax policy center www.taxpolicycenter.org - a non-partisan source you can review what each of the candidates tax policy will do for you and your family. I went and looked and found the following:
- family making $35000 - Obama gives them $1400 more while McCain gives them $480 more
- family making $50000 - currently pays $772 but McCain would reduce that to $51 while Obama gives them a return of $232
- Until $150000 - Obama comes in under McCain - then the two are virtually equivalent
- At $250000 - things change Obama starts to increase the tax bill for those families while McCain tends to level off and not adjust their tax bill
Advantage: Obama
McCain until recently was Pro-choice. Then when he decided to go against everything he stood for as a Maverick and joined the very right winged conservatives that he fought against in 2000 he flip-flopped and went pro-life to try and court that vote. Now enter Sarah "I can't believe she is really in office somewhere" Palin. She is the poster child for right-winged conservatism. It is unfortunate that she spends so much time worrying about other people's children getting knocked up when they aren't married and not enough time on her own child and what she is doing. Then she parades her daughter in front of millions of people and the poor kid that got her pregnant as a shining example since they were "getting married". Yeah - they won't be adding to the divorce statistics in a few years....if they even make it down the aisle. Perhaps a few less trips in $700 hotel rooms overlooking central park with her younger children and more supervision for her older child might have prevented this "oops" moment. Or perhaps, if she wasn't prepared to teach her child about abstinence, she should have taught her safe-sex and bought her condoms. Oh...yes, that little bit of liberal slipped out. I'm sorry - I'm not willing to risk any child's life to a deadly disease transmitted through a natural act and last I checked sex was and is a natural act - even if you believe in creationism! Now, Joe Biden has a silver foot in his mouth but at least with Biden you know what you are in for. The truth be told - McCain is just plain old and not in the best of health. I respect his time that he has served his country and his time as a POW but, I'm not willing to put him in office and roll the dice and crap out and get stuck with some hillbilly hockey mom who was first for the bridge to no where and then against it and still built a road to no where in her state ( a $25 Million gravel road mind you). Nope - sorry, there are a lot of highly intelligent, in fact down right brilliant women politicians in both parties and he had to pick some obscure, unproven governor of a state that tries to sell an airplane on ebay and loses money on it! You can put lipstick on a pig...and sorry Sarah....it's still a pig...even if you pay $150000 for new clothes for it!
Advantage: Obama
Healthcare - we all know where I stand on healthcare. Neither of these gentlemen has the answer. We need to go even further back then both of them are talking and look at benefit design and work to transition from treatment of exacerbation's of illnesses to preventative medicine. So, instead of analyzing two plans both destine to fail I will call this one a draw.
Advantage: Neither
Neither of these men has clean hands and neither of their running partners does either. I went to factcheck.org and did a little fact checking of my own:
Yes - Sarah Palin's husband Todd was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party - a group that wants Alaska to secede from the US (don't let the door hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya)! And although Sarah isn't a card carrying member she has attended some of their events.
Yes - Obama did attend a party for Rashid Khalidi - a critic of Isreal and a Palestinian supporter - but McCain chaired a group that gave Khalidi's organization he founded $480000. Oops guess he shouldn't of brought that one up!
Yes - Obama went to a church that is controversial but has anyone heard of John Hagee??? He and McCain were great friends and he was a staunch supporter of McCain until the water got too hot for McCain and he had to distance himself from Hagee - I don't hear mention of him like we do Reverend Wright.
BTW to those of you out there still touting "Joe the Plumber", I heard the tooth fairy and Tinkerbell are in town too. He isn't willing to pay taxes on money he doesn't have to begin with but he is willing to pay an agent to try to launch a music career. Oy vey! They are all fictional characters who have outlived their time.
I've seen the jokes - the ones where Michele Obama talks about evolution and supposedly is tied to monkeys for ancestors - well I hate to break it to ya but if ya look at the genetic chain of the chimp we are pretty closely related. If you would like to see that there is a whole genome project based at the University of Texas at Austin (yes I know you will all tell me a liberal school but I'm damn proud to say I'm class of '94 from that liberal school) that shows the minor difference in the two strands of DNA.
I could go on and on but I will leave you with this ....something my favorite grad student shared with me...
What if....
What if the Obama had paraded five children across the stage,
including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law
Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a
severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his
standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long
affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating
Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting
a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of
the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer
distribution?
What if the Obama's had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected
reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they
are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in
another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science
with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A.
in Political Science.
Syracuse University College
of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy
- Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University
- 1 semester
North Idaho College
- 2 semesters
University of Idaho - 2 semesters
Matanuska-Susitna
College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in
Journalism
Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest
offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.
By Adrian M. Parish
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mohandas Gandhi
That is the great thing about our country - we are all entitled to express our views and opinions and even those of you out there that don't agree with mine - I encourage you to go and vote if you haven't already. Don't make the freedom we take for granted that is paid for by the blood of our sons and daughters from the past, present and future be for not.
As for me and my family - we voted early and I'm proud to say we voted for Obama! But, we are planning our exit strategy (hopefully better than what Bush did for Iraq) if the other side wins.
1 comment:
Well said, I'm not proud of the mistake I made in 2000 by voting for Ralph since I couldn't stomach the two main stream choices. McCain was my choice in 2000 but when he lost out to the dirty Karl Rove tactics I didn't feel I had a choice. I can't believe the change in McCain since that time, and I wish it was for the better. The lesson I learned was not selecting the right one but avoid voting for the wrong one. Obama in 2008 to give our country a chance at hope again and keeping the grass roots efforts going for a true change in our great country.
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