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9.05.2008 ||> Are you kidding me?
I very rarely miss the national conventions, but this year, I've only seen small parts of both. I saw Obama's acceptance speech, Sarah Palin's speech and part of John McCain's acceptance speech (I fell asleep halfway through) and Michelle Obama's speech (I had to get to class). In Pennsylvania, the ads are also going strong, and I first started seeing them today, mostly because I finally got some time to myself.
Obviously, I'm partisan and I like Barack Obama. I'm not going to pretend that I have been happy with the past eight years of Republican mismanagement. I also think it's ludicrous to elect a party that hates the government. It's like hiring a Christian Scientist as a pharmacist: why would I want them to dispense medicine when they think prayer is the only answer?
But I have to wonder at how anyone can vote for John McCain? Maybe it's the fact that I'm from Arizona and I knows he lies his ass off about pork barrel spending? (Oh, yeah, He never brought pork back there, no siree. Except when he pushed for millions of dollars in pork for university research in Tucson or for money for our Air force bases.) Or that he keeps saying he's a maverick with nothing in the last eight years to back him up.
I liked him well enough in the 90's, and didn't think he was such a bad guy. But since the primary in 2000, he has really changed, and nothing has made that more clear to me than this election. He runs on experience, but then anoints Sarah Palin as his running mate? The woman has only 18 months of experience as governor of a state that, if you list it in terms of population, is 47th in the nation!
Then he decries not balancing the budget. Wow. It's not like Republicans weren't in total control of all the branches of government for 6 years. I have the feeling that, if balancing the budget were of paramount importance, it would have been addressed when they had the final say in everything.
Then there are the little "senior moments." Like thinking Al Qaeda was training in Iran (when the Shia in Iran and the Sunni in Al Qaeda are mortal enemies), or that Vladimir Putin was the "German President." (the German President has no power - he most likely meant German Chancellor Angela Merkel). The thing that gets me about these slips is that, if John McCain has all this experience and he's the man for the job and all that, why doesn't he know the difference between the Sunni and Shia or how a female chancellor might not be the same as a male president?
And if it was just a slip up - a senior moment - do we really want someone who admits to being senile in charge of our country? Haven't we already done stupid for long enough?
In 2000, when Bush was "elected," I thought, "well, how badly can he screw up in four years?" Well, now I know. And I cannot imagine how anyone can be on the fence this time around. Not when there is a much better way this time.
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