Now that the Nuremberg Rally (oops...RNC) is over...
September 5th 2008 03:42
Wow...you know you are in the twilight zone when John McCain is sounding sane compared to the speakers that preceded him. Of course, it was quite the motley crew of fundamentalists and corporate stooges. From Romney speaking down about "East Coast elites" (he doesn't seem to remember he was the governor of Massachusetts and is worth at least half a billion) to Palin of Arc letting her little son get passed around like a prop to Rotten Rudy trying to not sound like a piece of crap, the zealots got all they wanted. Funny, they raved alot more for the nutty comments of Palin then they did for McCain, for the most part. We did learn that McCain was a POW - over, and over, and over.
I tell you, I am convinced neo-conservatism is a definable mental illness. The entire time they have ranted about "change," not once acknowledging that for the last 8 years they have had the presidency and before 2006 they had Congress for 14 years, and the only changes have been huge deficits, no movement to alternative energy, brash militarism, rampant cronyism and incompetence, corruption galore, and economic idiocy. You want change, don't even consider voting for an "R." I don't say that as a partisan "D." I have issues with alot of them too. I say that as someone who sees today's Republican Party taking America down a very dark road.
But now that the flag-waving and brash talk of the convention is over, what happens next? Hopefully, the specter presented to the country at the Republican National Convention causes Americans to recoil in horror and support Barack Obama. It sounds almost cliche, but this is the most important election in a generation, at least. I can't understand how anyone could be "undecided" with so much on the line. Of course, I wish they would vote for Obama. But damn, stand up and be counted either way.
Soon will come the debates, and hopefully the moderators will draw out some specifics on issues that go beyond god, guns, and abortion. Americans will see that to vote conservative is to vote completely against the interests of themselves and their families. To vote conservative is to not only accept, but to ask for more war and less security. That's right, security. They claim to be the party to "keep us safe." Yet another lie.
America, wake up before it's too late!
I tell you, I am convinced neo-conservatism is a definable mental illness. The entire time they have ranted about "change," not once acknowledging that for the last 8 years they have had the presidency and before 2006 they had Congress for 14 years, and the only changes have been huge deficits, no movement to alternative energy, brash militarism, rampant cronyism and incompetence, corruption galore, and economic idiocy. You want change, don't even consider voting for an "R." I don't say that as a partisan "D." I have issues with alot of them too. I say that as someone who sees today's Republican Party taking America down a very dark road.
But now that the flag-waving and brash talk of the convention is over, what happens next? Hopefully, the specter presented to the country at the Republican National Convention causes Americans to recoil in horror and support Barack Obama. It sounds almost cliche, but this is the most important election in a generation, at least. I can't understand how anyone could be "undecided" with so much on the line. Of course, I wish they would vote for Obama. But damn, stand up and be counted either way.
Soon will come the debates, and hopefully the moderators will draw out some specifics on issues that go beyond god, guns, and abortion. Americans will see that to vote conservative is to vote completely against the interests of themselves and their families. To vote conservative is to not only accept, but to ask for more war and less security. That's right, security. They claim to be the party to "keep us safe." Yet another lie.
America, wake up before it's too late!
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