Earlier this week I wrote about Retard Republicans. Maybe I went a little overboard, not all Republicans can be retards. I mean obviously I bunched a whole group of people together and naturally if I was to go to a Republican rally I wouldn't find only retards, or would I?
When the primary season started I, honestly, did not care much about the candidates that my party put forth. Now it's not that I personally dislike any of the candidates, but when it's an election cycle I think about winning. From the beggining Clinton and Obama showed to be the strongest of the bunch but I argued that because Hillary was Hillary and a woman Obama was black. I felt that neither because of these issues could win. Does that make me racist or sexist? Those that know me know that I am neither, but I try to think logically about politics and I felt that race and sex would trump the issues.
Now the photo that Genia at SisterTalk posted today shows how race is an issue.
Read the shirt and the bumper speaker.
When it comes down to it the Republican party tries to dismiss any reference to things like this that Obama and Democrats are just playing the "race card". Republicans play to these types of voters and we will have to wait to see if race plays an issue in the election. We will not know until Nov. 4th. Will the white majority let race trump the issues? I hope not because Obama has clearly shown that he is the best bet for turning our country around.
Ultimately why should it matter if a white or black man fix our economic problems and our foreign relations? It doesn't and Obama has shown he has the right plans and the right people around him that surrounded Bill Clinton when we had a surplus.
The pundits argued back and forth some saying that the debate was boring and they didn't like the format, but I definitely thought it was a very exciting debate. I thought that the were numerous fundamental differences shown last night that the American people have the right to know about. I also think that when looking at character the debate last night showed who has the composure and good judgment to run our country, but there were some moments that deserve to be dissected and talked about.
You heard it repeated over and over again by the pundits on most of the networks "That one!". It was a moment of shock for me. I pointed out McCain's distaste for Obama after the first debate but I would never think that he would lose his composure soo much that he would make it obvious by openly addressing his opponent as an insignificant lackey or as not even a human being. I may be over exaggerating the issue but, if it had been me, I would have called him out and lost my cool. Throughout the debate McCain continued to have the body language of someone who had already lost the battle.
I think it was the second question that was asked by a young black man directed to McCain that really showed the disconnect from regular everyday Americans and the Republican party. The young man posed a question about Fannie Mae and McCain proceeds to assume that most Americans "probably had never heard" of those companies. What a slap in the face. If that's not how you call someone a dumb ass I don't what is.
Now it wasn't all screw ups by McCain, although there were a lot of them, Obama really addressed the issues and , when allowed, called McCain on his lies. How perfect was it when McCain gives a great little speech about talk soft but carry a big stick and Obama was responding repeating some of the McCain talking points, McCain says thanks, and BAM! What about Bomb-bomb Iran, Next Baghdad, and annihilate North Korea. What was priceless was McCain's facial expression he was smirking when he said thank you and as soon as Obama delivered the knockout punch his facial expression slowly changed as if he just saw a ghost. What a moment!
Overall the polls of voters shows what I think everyone, excluding the right wing nutsos, saw Obama has a better plan, keeps his composure under fire, and will change the direction our country is headed.
How ignorant are most Republicans? After their party took over all branches of government, and has majority rule for the last 6 years of the past 8 years, they had a HUGE surplus (extra money). We now have one of the biggest deficits (money we owe) in our country's history. We have soldiers dying everyday in a war that was started without cause. Osama Bin Laden (you 'member the guy responsible for the 9-11 attacks and killing over 3000 THOUSAND Americans) is still not captured and still a threat. The stock market has dropped under 10k because of Republican commitment to de-regulation (letting big corporations do whatever they want).
Now, according to the McCain camp, none of the above are issues. What is most important to the American people is if Obama had a friendship with Bill Ayers. Palin insinuates that Obama is some kind of terrorist because he knows a guy who has a shaky past (by past I mean over 30 years ago) and says that McCain will cut more taxes. There are some simple rules in our reality one being that in order to pay bills you must have income. We currently have wars on two different fronts, which costs money, yet Republicans want to decrease income while increasing spending, doesn't make sense and maybe the big reason why Republicans prefer political mudslinging to actually debating the issues.
So get a clue, please. I'm tired of suffering because of your stupidity. I'm tired of our soldiers dying because you voted in a President and Congressmen/women who could care less about average Americans. Drive around town and the majority of the really big houses have McCain/Palin signs (because they know McCain cares about them) but what about the middle class neighborhood who has decreased in size over the last 8 years.
