7 posts tagged “politics”
Well, a whole lot of fuss has been made about Barack Obama's ex-pastor, whose remarks he has openly condemned. And a lot of fuss is being made about the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
Well, why not talk about one of John McCain's supporters, Rev. John Hagee? Dude rails like a complete idiot against everything from how much God hates gays to how much God hates Islam. And what it took to get John McCain to actually start distancing himself from this guy? A remark that was anti-Catholic! Never mind that he'd said thinks like, "What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse," and claimed that the whole thing happened because God hates gays long before this presidential campaign even started! The fact that that alone wasn't reason enough to write the dude off as a fundamentalist whack-job is alarming. No one even bats an eye at that? And then we're expected to believe it's totally okay that this sort of person has any sort of political power, and that he can hate Muslims, gays, atheists, and whoever else he wants as long as he doesn't hate Catholics?
And let's talk about another person John McCain has actively courted for support, and whose support he has received: that of his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley. Rod Parsley who has declared "war" on Islam. The same guy who compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis and accused them of attempting to exterminate blacks. Anyone who actually wants this sort of person to have any sort of political power is nothing short of an idiot. If anyone's supporters are reason enough not to vote for them, it's John McCain. A vote for McCain is a vote for another four years of Christian Zionism in the white house.
I'm all for your right to believe whatever the hell you want, no matter how stupid it is. You can believe in an established religion, believe in no religion, or you can believe that God is a squirrel. I don't care. What I do care about is hate and bigotry. These things have no place in mainstream society, and the way our government judges people should have nothing whatsoever with the way your church judges people. The first amendment of the constitution frees us from being subject to religious law. Once you start writing your hate into it, and once you start making certain groups of people "less equal" in the eyes of the state, you're on a slippery slope toward totalitarianism and destroying the principles on which this country is founded.
So just remember, every time someone among the so-called "liberal media" asks Barack Obama patronizing questions like, "Do you love the American flag?" how little of an issue it is. A lot is at stake in this election, and I don't want to see the people who really do seem to have it in for the things that make America great win it again.
Anyway, that's enough about politics for today.
Well, since people seem to want to make a big deal of Barack Obama not wearing an American flag pin, this Mark Nickolas guy noticed that McCain doesn't wear one, either.
So it's official. John McCain hates America. Can we ship him off to the secret prisons and forget about him already?
But seriously, there are better issues to worry about right now. If it comes down to it, while I'd rather not see Obama in office, I'd still rather see him in office than Clinton or McCain, who are both far sketchier characters. If McCain wins the presidency, we'll be at war in Iran in the next four years, which will be long before we're out of Iraq. The world will hate us even more than they already do. And yes, that means we'll be an even bigger target for terrorist attacks. I wouldn't be surprised to see a draft, if that's the case, either. But if you still haven't figured it out from every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan, I'll spell it out for you: another Republican administration will mean higher prices on everything, a continuing rise in gas prices, a weaker dollar, trillions more dollars of wasteful spending, and another poorly thought out war with no forseeable end. And this is the best case scenario. I promise you a McCain presidency will go down exactly like that, because he's been right there with Bush on all of the policies that yielded the same results for the past eight years, and he's still with him now!
Does it really need to be any more clear than that?
What was your reaction to the results of the Iowa caucuses?
The Democrats voted for flaky moderate-conservative candidates who say lots of pretty words that they'll never back up, and the Republicans voted for right wing religious extremists with personal histories of animal abuse (Mike Huckabee got his son off the hook for torturing and killing a dog, and Mitt Romney's family straps their pet carrier, with the dog in it, to the top of their car on road trips). Personally, I'd rather see President Obama than another President Clinton, but I'd rather see a President Kucinich or Gravel than any of 'em. Unfortunately, Kucinich and Gravel got 0% of the vote. If I hear anyone from Iowa whining about the lack of good presidential candidates, I see this as license to punch them in the face.
I am glad to see Ron Paul getting buried early on. And I find it hilarious that despite that, Giuliani still came in behind him. That speaks volumes for the rapidly decreasing bullshit tolerance of America's voters, who finally understand that the last thing we need is a president whose entire platform revolves around fighting terrorism.
First off, to everyone politicizing the fires in southern California, I'd like to invite you to kindly slam a sack of cocks. It's not Arnold Schwarzenegger's fault. It's not George Bush's fault. It's not the liberal media's fault. It's not the Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. I don't know what it is with Americans and having to blame someone for everything that happens regardless of how irrational it is to do so. So let me get a few things I believe (or rather, don't believe) off my chest:
- The U.S. government is not responsible for 9/11. Is it really so hard to believe that Muslim terrorists did it? I obviously can't refute the "Loose Change" theory myself, having no background in anything related, but I can say that the dude behind it has absolutely no background in anything he's making claims about, either, so he really has very little basis on which to make them. At the same time, people who do have that background have consistently said he's full of shit.
- The war in Iraq is not for oil (has anyone else actually looked into how much of our oil actually came from Iraq in the first place?)
- What the war in Iraq is for, I can't claim to know, but it sure as hell ain't for what we've been told.
- The media is not totally biased in one way or the other, it's just totally biased.
- Cable news is not worth watching under any circumstances. It's seriously the most mind-numbing crap that could possibly be aired. At best, it's out-of-touch old people screaming bullshit partisan talking points for parties that really have no idea what's going on around them anymore, at the top of their lungs at each other 'til the show's host cuts someone's mic. At worst, the mic doesn't get cut and no one just shuts the fuck up. Cable news is literally making America stupid, presenting an incredibly dualistic way of thinking as the only way of thinking, when really, it's just the easiest way for political wingnuts to get a lot of support for their bullshit agendas.
- NPR and all that shit makes me really hate yuppie liberals. Sorry, but I really don't give a fuck how some political situation in Asia reminds you of your sweater (I actually heard some cracker make some comparison along these lines on there), you honky piece of shit. Seriously, you can take your hybrid car and your grass-fed organic beef and all your other feel-good liberal bullshit and go fucking bury yourself with it. To pretend to understand that sort of thing when you so obviously can't, having never had an experience even close to similar, and then be so patronizing as to compare it to your fucking sweater is the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard in my life. I really wish the college station would just play rad-ass music all day like they do at night and take you smug-ass pieces of shit off the air.
Anyway, the past little while has been more or less uneventful. A couple days ago, me and Alex went and played guitar in the park in the early morning. He fell asleep at Lucy's (a coffee shop), which is something I find hilariously ironic. There was a Palm Reader show in there somewhere, too. Some band called Fierce Perm from Olympia played and tore it up. In fact, valuable shit got broken in the house and some dude's face got busted open. Both of these things suck to have happen at shows, but at least the band was good. A bunch of other random shit happened, too. Wandering around with various people, etc. Probably happened at least five or six times in the past couple days.
Here's some shitty pics to go with this post.
So not only did Alberto Gonzalez finally resign...
...Larry Craig, Idaho's senior Republican senator, and one of Mitt Romney's top supporters, unintentionally came out of the closet in the least graceful way imaginable: by trying to play footsie with an undercover cop in an airport restroom.
Comedy gold.
Built to Spill just reissued a bunch of their back catalog on vinyl! Needless to say, they're the kind of band that sounds so much better on vinyl, I'm stoked, and just drained about $35 on albums I already owned on CD today. So, of course, I'm broke for the next week, and that "records or beer?" crisis I was going through yesterday has essentially been rendered irrelevant.
I went to the co-op and bought some beer with the remainder of my cash. Maybe, if you ask nice, I'll even talk out my ass about them for you. I'll probably also do that if you ask rudely, tell me to shut the fuck up about everything and die, or just ignore me.
Also, I don't like to talk about politics a lot, but I'm really tired of hearing about Ron Paul. Am I the only one who realizes just how much of a nutjob that guy is? I liked him at first, and then I read and thought more on his positions and while he's consistent, a lot of his ideas are really terrible. Is it really a good idea to privatize more shit than has already been privatized? Honestly, the only thing I trust less than the government is people motivated by greed, and really, all privatizing functions of government accomplishes is bringing profit margins into the picture. Pretty much what it sounds to me like he's suggesting is a corporate state that would honestly make me miss everything America stood for under Bush a little bit.
Personally, Barack Obama's getting my vote. I don't see eye-to-eye with him on absolutely everything, but his views are consistent enough with mine, and I just plain like the guy. And if he doesn't get the nomination, the office of President will just be a blank spot on my ballot, 'cause I'm sure as hell not voting for Hillary.
