Updates - Political Rant

It's been a while since the last post. Well with all the excitement from Faye, Hannah, Gustav and Ike, we've been on our toes down here in Mickey Mouseland South. Joy of joys, only about 3 more months of hurricane season. Yippee.


I have been trying to be a good American and follow the presidential race but I have to admit that I'm tired of listening to these people. It's always the negative stuff about the other guy. Tell me what you will do for us, how you will fix the problems we're facing, balance the budget since we're only $407 billion in debt (thanks George), get the troops home, fix the economy, curb global warming, get us off our dependence on foreign oil, and the list goes on.


Watching Obama you have to think he'll do well because he seems to have an engaging personality as opposed to McCain, who someone once described his speech giving "like watching paint dry." No offense Sen. McCain, but I'm just waiting for him to keel over from a stroke or something.

This brings me to another point. Gov. Palin has been all over the news since they announced that she would be the VP candidate with McCain. Everywhere you go, there she is. On magazine covers, on television, on the internet. The public seems pretty polarized with her, either loving her or hating her. I don't know what to feel about her. Well the "love her" side seems to think that the "hate her" side is unfairly attacking her. I say, welcome to the club. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. You have to know that this is expected during this time of the year. Elections are right around the corner and since she is an unknown, the opposing team is going to jump on every little piece of information that might bring her down, just the way the Republicans did to Obama.

Personally, I don't have a problem with her being a working mom. There are more than a few of us out there doing it and more power to you. While I admire that she has a special needs baby, and knew this before he was born, I don't think they need to milk it quite the way they have. People have special needs kids all the time and they aren't running to every media outlet announcing that they could have had an abortion but chose to give birth to the baby. I don't personally know anyone who wouldn't give birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. It's not the same as if they had the amniocentesis and found out the baby would be born missing all it's limbs or having severe structural deformities. That would have been something altogether different.

My concern is, as seems to be on the mind of many people, what are her ideas on reform. That seems to be her claim to fame in AK so what's she going to do in Washington? There are already stories of her getting money from lobbyists for her gas pipeline (to be fair, not sure if they're true), and then the story of her using her gubenatorial power to get a public safety official fired because he didn't fire an ex-brother-in-law (also waiting on the outcome of that). Though does look a bit wrong that when they mention having the whole debacle investigated by an ethics committee, she's trying to get it moved to a committee in which she's the chairman or some such thing. Isn't that the whole point of having a separate investigative body? Maybe it's just me. And the whole hulabaloo about the "bridge to nowhere" and how she said she was the one to kill it but they say she supported it, and the money it brought to her state, and then nixed it after Congress found out what a waste it was.

Her religion is her religion. I won't knock what someone believes unless they start trying to infringe on other people's rights. You don't like gays, fine. I don't think it's right to deny them benefits for the same-sex partner dealy that she did up in AK. If they pay taxes, shouldn't they get the same rights? Once again, maybe just me. Also, she has many quotes that she believes things are "God's will," which is fine but not when you're talking about war and you may be one of the people in charge of starting or finishing one. Best get your priorities straight on that one. Great that you son is being deployed to Iraq, but there are millions of other people who have loved ones that are being or have been deployed. If you care about them, look at options to get their loved ones home as soon as possible, minimizing any possible impact it may have globally.

I guess I'll have to wait and see how she does during the debates when she doesn't have a script to read off of and a teleprompter to use (heard that hers broke down during the RNC, tragedy of all tragedies right?). And for all those people that are asking why people are so concerned with her instead of John McCain, it may have to do with that nifty little article two of the Constitution of the United States of America. Let's face it folks, McCain is not getting any younger; if he's elected as president and something happens to him, we may be stuck with someone that we should have asked more questions of.

I'm just saying at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.