Politics with a side order of crap, please!

Let’s take an absolute political moron and make him the spokesperson for this election. Are McCain/Palin so desperate for the “everyman” vote that they will take the “any man” vote?

And here, ladies and gentlemen, we give you Joe the Plumber!

This man, this self-appointed political pundit, is now considering leveraging his 15 minutes into a Congressional run.

http://www.joewurzelbacher2010.com/

 
This is a man who claims that Obama is a socialist yet backs a man (McCain) who has clearly used aspects of “socialism” in his explanations for the government bail-out plan. Perhaps we should send them a dictionary so they can look up the word “socialism” and get a better understanding of the meaning. TRUST ME, neither McCain nor Obama are socialists and any self-respecting socialist would take offense to those accusations! (on a side note – educate yourselves – socialism is NOT a dirty word!)

 
And so we have it….six days before the election…an election which could make or break the very existence of this nation…and we have a mother-fucking plumber as the spokesperson for the nation.

So what do we want, 4 to 8 more years of the Bush Regime (which is what we will get with McCain/Palin) and 4 to 8  years of Joe (the guy who fixes your turd filled toilet) representing the “everyman”?

How apt, no? Politics and crap in one fell swoop!

….or shall we, as a nation, finally stand together and say “ENOUGH!”

Obama ‘08….that is the only viable option!

Stop the world and let me off!

Have we all gone completely insane? Have I? Obviously the answer to the latter is a resounding “yes” as I am about to do something I never thought I would – defend Sarah Palin.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I still think she is completely unqualified for the VP position. To be honest, I think she is greatly unqualified to be governor of Alaska, having only won that election because the incumbent was so unpopular.

I don’t agree with a her views on a single issue. Her religious views need to stay out of her politics but they are so intertwined that I doubt she knows the difference.

If we let Toto pull back the drape and reveal the men behind the curtain, we will find that Conservative Right Wing Republicans are the puppet-masters pulling her strings and writing her speeches. As a matter of fact, her acceptance speech at the RNC was written BEFORE she was even chosen as running mate. Naturally, the writers  made a few edits to fit her political record and information into the text.

Picking Palin was such a tactical and calculated move on McCain’s part. He did NOT pick this woman because she is capable or even ready for the job of VP. By choosing Palin, McCain successfully took focus away from Obama and his DNC acceptance speech.

He has gone against what he, himself, stated he was looking for….”someone who would be ready to take his place immediately” as Palin, herself, has stated that she isn’t even really sure what a VP’s job entails. One can only hope that people will begin to see through this charade and realize this wholly unqualified, Right Wing, Christian conservative woman is, if McCain is elected, a heart attack away from the presidency.

But I digress. My issue is that I have found myself, on more than one occasion, defending her. And that makes me angry.

I don’t believe in the conspiracy theories about her youngest child but that is not what I find myself in a quandary over.

What I am taking issue with is the myriads of people who feel she should not run for office when she has young children at home. I can’t believe that aside from the many reasons she is unqualified for this position, the biggest issue to most people is that she should stay home and “rear her children”! Are we serious?

Did I go to sleep up and wake up in 1957?

I was raised by a single working mother and had a mentally handicapped brother. My mother handled both work and family and neither one suffered. I think it is a male agenda that tells a woman she can’t do a job because she has family duties. We would never say this if it was Palin’s husband who was the VP choice.

 
Again, I state, WRONG WOMAN…but right time! We are ready for a woman in the White House…but NOT this one!

The F Word!

When did feminism become a dirty word? Why are we, as women, failing to admit that we are feminists and yet so willing to accept the Conservative ideal of feminism – Sarah Palin?

To say Palin is a champion for feminists is like saying Hitler was a champion for human rights.

Sarah Palin is an enemy of the rights of women. Reading the political blogs and forums and seeing women stating they will vote for Palin solely because she is a woman is frightening. It is a betrayal of all feminists….of all women….of all voters.

We SHOULD NOT elect a president or vice president simply because of what does or does not hang between their legs.

Palin is an opportunist NOT a feminist. She is reaping all the benefits of the women’s movement so she can step into office and strip away the hard won rights that put her there. All the shouts and murmurs you are reading about Palin’s feminism are well-placed blurbs from the Conservatives who are trying to use the language of feminists to push their anti-feminist candidate.

Feminism is about allowing women to make their own choices the way men do. Feminism is about empowerment. It is about giving women equality and ability. The ability to keep our own names, if we so desire, when we marry. The ability to control our own bodies and fertility. The ability to have equal access to employment and education. Feminism is about giving women the same rights as men so that we may live in this country as equals.

Sarah Palin is about taking these rights and choices away.

She is against abortion even in the case of rape or incest. She is against sex education and advocates abstinence only education.

To put it in simple terms, she wants to force women to carry unwanted children and yet wishes to deny us the knowledge of the tools we need in order to avoid this very situation.

The only problem with calling oneself a feminist these days is that we have become apathetic feminists. We have watched as the current administration has slowly stripped away our rights….not just as women but as human beings.

This is our wake-up call and if we do not move swiftly we will lose all progress we have made in the past 80 years.

Ain’t got no time for a noun, a verb and 9/11

I’ve steered somewhat clear of posting “political” blogs and bulletins. I say “somewhat” – as I can get a bit fired up now and again. I make no secret of the fact that when it comes to politics I am standing to the Left of you. Well, you may say, “my politics are already of the Liberal leaning Left variety”. My answer….keep looking left darlin’, I am there.

I have been following the Democratic National Convention and watching each night, speech after speech, and hoping for someone, somewhere, to say IT!  And here it is, so eloquently put by Barack Obama, who has now secured my vote for the November election. A bit of his speech is excerpted here  – and I suggest seeking out the full text. It was a great speech! 

(And on a side note – Biden as his VP choice, excellent!) The greatest quote from this election process and the debates – Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani – “And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency, is here talking about any of the people here. Rudy Giuliani… I mean, think about it! Rudy Giuliani. There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There’s nothing else! There’s nothing else! And I mean this sincerely. He’s genuinely not qualified to be president.”

So read….weep….agree….and get out there and VOTE and show the world that we are done with this Right Wing Administration:

“But the record’s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time. Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than 90 percent of the time? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to take a 10 percent chance …

 

 

The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives — on health care and education and the economy — Sen. McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has made “great progress” under this president. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief advisers — the man who wrote his economic plan — was talking about the anxieties that Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a “mental recession,” and that we’ve become, and I quote, “a nation of whiners.”

 

 

A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud autoworkers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are not whiners. They work hard and they give back and they keep going without complaint. These are the Americans I know.

 

 

Now, I don’t believe that Sen. McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn’t know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under $5 million a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people’s benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?

 

 

It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.

 

 

For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy — give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is that you’re on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. You’re on your own. No health care? The market will fix it. You’re on your own. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps — even if you don’t have boots. You are on your own.

 

 

Well it’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America. And that’s why I’m running for president of the United States.”

 

(I am optimistic, inspired and screaming – “get off your asses and make sure you vote this election!”)

People in glass houses

Edwards had an affair and the world is aghast. We Puritanical Americans like to pretend that we observe some sort of stringent moral code. In our minds sexuality is a sort of taboo subject and heaven forbid we ever break the sanctity of our marital vows. However, sentencing a criminal to death doesn’t seem to conflict with our morals, does it?

Yes, I believe cheating is wrong as all parties involved suffer in one way, shape or form. I don’t condone the act of “cheating” in any way – whether it was on your 9th grade Algebra exam or on your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse/etc. But why are we so concerned with what happens in a bedroom between two consenting adults? I have always held the steadfast belief that I could care less who my elected official is sleeping with as long as he/she takes care of the tasks at hand.

We are a nation that glorifies and idolizes people such as Paris Hilton, a girl who is famous for banging her boyfriend while being video taped. We hurry to the nearest store to buy said tape yet we become a virtual lynch mob when our President or Senator or elected official has an affair.

Francoise Mitterand was the President of France from 1981 to 1995. It was an “open secret” that Mitterand, while married, had a mistress AND a daughter with his mistress. The mistress and their daughter lived not far from where he resided with his wife. He did his job and, in some ways, he did his job well. What happened in his personal life behind closed doors remained his business. It did not effect his job and therefore there was no need to sensationalize his indiscretions.

Edwards has stated that this affair transpired 2 years ago and he and his wife have dealt with it. Regardless of this statement, whether true or not, the issue should be between the three parties involved – Edwards, his wife and the other woman. However, two years later, the media is happily opening old wounds for this couple and ruining a career in the process.

The Conservative Right wingers will grab on to this story and use every opportunity to decimate this man and the paparazzi and media are only happy to oblige. They will use this as a means to promote their ever important platform – “the moral decline of America” – and they will spout their hateful words and religious rhetoric.


The only thing that is morally wrong with America is that we feel it is our right to invade someone’s personal life. It’s water cooler politics – gossip is fact and work record counts for nothing.
And at the end of the day, after the Conservative Right has successfully ended another promising political career and gotten the nation fired up, they will toddle off to their mistresses while their spouses clean up the shit they’ve left behind.