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Sep
16
Unfair Comparisons
Filed Under Political Shitheadery | 2 Comments
Normally I don’t care for these sort of e-mails, but this one does illustrate how we get sucked into the media’s interpretation of the facts. Not to mention the campaign spin doctors.
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents — you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers — a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a state senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the US Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second-highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches (not Muslim!!!), you’re not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a good Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while Governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now
As far as the Sex Ed part though … Obama’s being accused of wanting to teach sex ed to kindergartners. Actually he wanted to educate kindergarteners about sexual predators. There’s a big difference between, “Here’s a vagina and here’s how to use one,” and, “Here’s a van. Don’t get in it.”
Here’s a seemingly unbiased comparison.
Sep
16
McCain Invented the Blackberry
Filed Under Political Shitheadery | 3 Comments
Yep, that’s right, McCain invented the Blackberry. Which wouldn’t have been possible if Gore hadn’t invented the Internet. And of course, if God hadn’t invented people. All ludicrous and silly comments.
The comment by a McCain staffer was called a joke and everyone got a good laugh, as told here.
Like it was with Gore, the comment was innocent enough, maybe not the best idea, and poorly worded. But why explain the whole thing? Why not just stop with, “McCain says he invented the Blackberry?”
Jonathan Martin of Politico shows just what hack journalism is with his partial news blog entry.
This is exactly what I’m talking about when I bitch about there being no real press in this country. I can’t wait to see us still talking about this in 10 years.
The campaigns are out of control. Both sides. That anyone would run this is a slap in the face. Half truths, no truths.
Obama spokesman, Bill Burton said: “If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week.”
Bill Burton knows that McCain made that comment before the Lehman Brothers announcement. He also knows that McCain said something completely different later that afternoon when presented with new facts.
Next in the news? McCain is a flip flopper.
Sep
16
Ahhhhh, the Economy
Filed Under Corporate Shitheadery, Political Shitheadery | 1 Comment
Banks going bust? Now I’m confused. So, last week … good news, mortgage rates are going down and you can probably refinance your home. Granted the governement now owns your home-actually the Chinese now own your home. Your home that’s about to cost 2% more in a couple of months, but you can get a better loan. Great news…until this week. We could refinance if there was a bank out there that had money. So from my economically uneducated shoes, I’m screwed.
I had a full week of hope. Living the American dream, for a week. Thank God for small miracles.
