This is what the McCain campaign reminds me of

We've got them right where we want them!  ¶ 10/31/2008 11:58:00 AM 1 Comments

  Let's just fucking vote already!!!   ¶ 10/30/2008 11:44:00 AM 1 Comments

  Dirty words in American politics - Socialist

- Intellectual

- European

- Peace

- Muslim

- Elite

- Liberal

- France

- Atheist

- Diplomacy

- Same-sex marriage

- Gay rights

- Protect nature

- Arab

- Cut defense spending

- Raise taxes

- Hussein

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  Racism as a luxury So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n***er!"

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n***er."

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Sean Quinn's "On The Road" stories are as much insightful as they are inspiring.  ¶ 10/18/2008 01:20:00 AM 4 Comments

  Drinking words for tonight Update:

"Joe The Plumber" of course! It's not always about you Joe, but tonight it was.



"My friends"

"Maverick"

"Tax cuts"

"The American People"

"Let me be clear"

"Doesn't understand"

"Can I be excused? I think I just pooped myself"

It's a good thing we don't have to drive anywhere tonight. Too bad I have to work.  ¶ 10/15/2008 03:58:00 PM 0 Comments

  Stop the demonization of Barack Obama Now that the Palin and McCain rallies are starting to look more like lynch mobs everyday let me just say this: should the unthinkable happen, they will have blood on their hands. The McCain campaign are feeding the crazies the fuel they need, and they are not toning it down. Yesterday when McCain asked "Who is the real Barack Obama?", an audience member shouted "Terrorist!" loud and clear. McCain obviously hears it, and does.. nothing.



The campaign is creating a climate of hate and fear in an obvious attempt to demonize Barack Obama. Should this name calling and random hate spewing lead to actual violence, the McCain campaign will be responsible. I hope the main stream media, (and not just Keith Olberman), will call them out on their dangerous tactics before this gets really out of hand. I know what I'm talking about, I've seen it happen before.  ¶ 10/07/2008 12:53:00 PM 0 Comments

  Education, we don't need no Why is education not an issue in the United States? I wonder, has it ever been?

This is a Gallup poll showing the priorities of the American voter:

	The economy	42
	The situation in Iraq	13
	Energy, including gas prices	13
	Health care	13
	Terrorism	12
	Illegal immigration (vol.)	1
	Abortion (vol.)	1
	Education (vol.)	1
	Other	4

By the way, this is one of the few polls I could find that actually lists education as a seperate subject. Most polls don't even mention education and just throw it on the "other" pile.

You see, it's right under abortion. Wait, what? Abortion is a bigger issue than education!?

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Let me explain to you how this blows my mind. In The Netherlands, education is at least a 20% issue I estimate. Abortion hasn't even been a main stream issue since the 70's, and probably (hopefully) never will be again.

I know the comparison isn't entirely fair, because Holland has a parlimantary system with proportional representation, which means that political parties can set their own priorities and still end up with a good election result. For instance, you have the center-right liberal party (VVD) who has safety and immigration as their most important issues, a left-wing socialist party (SP) who care more about social security/health care and poverty, and even a Christian party (CDA) that sits more in the center of the political spectrum. (Note that abortion is not even an issue with the latter, showing how one religion can be so different based on how people choose to interpret it's fundamentals).

But you know what? Every single party makes education important. Parties do not get away by not having a laid out plan for what they want to do with the the educational system.

I do not fully understand why it's not imporant to people here. Usually when education is mentioned it's because the candidates are having a rally on a university campus. You don't hear it in the debates (or did I miss something?). If you do hear it, it's a one-liner such as "we need to make sure that every student can get loans to go to college"

It's amazing that this is where it is at: making sure that young people are able to start out their lives with a gigantic financial burden. Not making education more affordable, but making loans more accessible. Because borrowing money works out so well for the country, right?  ¶ 10/04/2008 12:42:00 PM 4 Comments

  A L S O This Palin woman is ridiculous, and people claiming she won the debate based on style are insane. Just listening to her makes me want to cut my fucking ears off (as a figure of speech of course).

"Ya know up therre in Aleskah dur dur dur dur"

I just can't imagine why some people find this preposterous accent appealing.

And then this "also" thing. What the fuck is up with randomly placing the word also in the middle and at the end of every single sentence she speaks? And also and also and also and also and also and also and also!!!! FUCKING ALSO. It's infuriating!

Here's what I'm talking about:

Thank you, Gwen. And I thank the commission, also.

And I've joined this team that is a team of mavericks with John McCain, also, with his track record of reform, where we're known for putting partisan politics aside to just get the job done.

One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again.

We need to make sure that we demand from the federal government strict oversight of those entities in charge of our investments and our savings and we need also to not get ourselves in debt.

Now, Barack Obama and Senator Biden also voted for the largest tax increases in U.S. history.

And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

So affordability and accessibility will be the keys there with that $5,000 tax credit also being offered.

And we also have John McCain to thank for bringing in a bipartisan effort people to the table so that we can start putting politics aside, even putting a campaign aside, and just do what's right to fix this economic problem that we are in.

It is a crisis. It's a toxic mess, really, on Main Street that's affecting Wall Street. And now we have to be ever vigilant and also making sure that credit markets don't seize up.

That is not so, but because that's just a quick answer, I want to talk about, again, my record on energy versus your ticket's energy ticket, also.

There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

But also in that "all of the above" approach that Senator McCain supports, the alternative fuels will be tapped into: the nuclear, the clean coal.

But I also want to clarify, if there's any kind of suggestion at all from my answer that I would be anything but tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners, choosing relationships that they deem best for themselves blablablabla

But in that tolerance also, no one would ever propose, not in a McCain-Palin administration, to do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed, negotiated between parties.

We can start putting more troops in Afghanistan as we also work with our NATO allies who are there strengthening us and we need to grow our military.

And Maliki and Talabani also in working with us are knowing again that we are getting closer and closer to that point, that victory that's within sight.

I don't know how you can defend that position now but I know that you know especially with your son in the National Guard and I have great respect for your family also and the honor that you show our military.

And he shared with me his passion for diplomacy. And that's what John McCain and I would engage in also.

And Secretary Rice, having recently met with leaders on one side or the other there, also, still in these waning days of the Bush administration, trying to forge that peace, and that needs to be done, and that will be top of an agenda item, also, under a McCain-Palin administration.

We will support Israel. A two-state solution, building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem, those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish.

They succeeded with Egypt. I'm sure that we're going to see more success there, also.

But for those countries -- North Korea, also, under Kim Jong-il -- we have got to make sure that we're putting the economic sanctions on these countries and that we have friends and allies supporting us.

Can we talk about Afghanistan real quick, also, though?

The surge principles, not the exact strategy, but the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need to be implemented in Afghanistan, also.

That's not what we're doing there. We're fighting terrorists, and we're securing democracy, and we're building schools for children there so that there is opportunity in that country, also.

There will be a big difference there, and we will win in -- in Afghanistan, also.

But as for as Darfur, we can agree on that also, the supported of the no-fly zone, making sure that all options are on the table there also.

This is probably just half of them. I gave up. I'm going to cry now.  ¶ 10/03/2008 01:22:00 PM 4 Comments