Showing posts with label Republican National Convention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican National Convention. Show all posts

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Change...or Honesty?

I'd like to thank you foxnews.com. I have often considered you to be entirely Republican and you may still be but at least you are willing to state the truth. I hope it will be brought to light the fact that John McCain does in fact have a plan for health care. He believes that the American people pay taxes to the government so that they can have health care anytime they need it. He said himself he does not believe in unions, social programs, government sponsored programs, the betterment of all schools and not just the ones he and his predominantly White Anglo Saxon Protestant Evangelical base choses to send their children. He has chosen to pick a running mate who believes in creationism over evolution.
Sarah Palin spent $400,000 dollars of public funding trying to overturn the right to shoot wolves while flying in a helicopter because they are scaring the moose and caribou which stops her from hunting them more efficiently, she promised to build the "Bridge" on the pretext that she felt the same anguish for the people of that town when her town was once referred to as nothing and now she tells the world where they live is nowhere. She fired the police chief, financial director , city planner and others early in her residence as Mayor of Wasilla. She attempted to have the town's librarian fired after asking her on three separate occasions whether or not she could ban books. Her town however rallied behind the librarian who had been in working there for seven years before she even showed up. Her pledge against earmarks is a joke that she should be careful telling around some parts because people are tired of liars.
Sambo did not go over our heads. And neither will Trig, Bristol, Levi and photographic evidence.
Presented without comment. (via HuffPo)
If you did in fact make a speech with amniotic fluid dripping down your ankle and then endanger your high risk unborn with an 8- 11 hour flight from Texas to Alaska and then bypass safer, larger more equipped hospitals to go to Mat-su in Wasilla just cause. That is almost as disgusting as having him at that convention three nights in a row as people screamed and chanted and applauded in his ears. Or as almost as disgusting as the planned pass the baby scenario during Sarah's speech when her family was sure to be shown repeatedly. I noticed that the baby was there during McCain's evening while people screamed all around him and then he just wasn't. By the end of the night he was gone. Good. How much abuse can one FIVE month old experience.
I cannot believe that the Republican's actually scream about the government helping people who may not have the resources or their grandparents trust fund from their grandparents' grandparents' slaves. Our ancestors still feel the brunt of poverty, racism, abuse, foster care, segregation...what does a Republican know about that. My mother had 6 children by the time she was 29 and the man she had thought she would be with for life cheated on all of us and started a new family. She couldn't just pick up and go to work. I was only 10 years old. We needed food stamps and welfare and a homemaker and good schools in Bed Stuy. She didn't have $5,000 dollars each year for all of us just in case we should get sick. And we did get sick from time to time but there was always a cough medicine that could solve it. And Bill Clinton was my president then. But I remember my childhood as great. I was safe. We weren't attacked like Republican's always envision for our future. TV was not promiscuous and half naked everyday and we went on field trips to the zoo. My mother did not have extra money to get us all on the G train in Bed Stuy, New York and take us to a good school that she choose. She needed a good school right there in our area.
We don't need simple competition between schools and vouchers. That answers none of the questions we're all asking. I want to know why history books have left out so many things that I have learned as an adult. We need more global studies so we don't grow up and think that America is the only stable country. We need to know the problems we face and how we can make them better. even at seven years old. It is not a false hope to wish for unity. Sarah Palin can compose Barack Obama to Moses if she wants to but doesn't she go to a church that prides itself on following the bible as the true word of god and a program with which to make any and all choices. So to call him Moses might just be a compliment. She needs to understand that the thick, black gaseous fumes that fill the skies on a daily basis all over the world is hurting our planet. Whatever you want to call it, it's not good. I hoe that everyone pays attention not just to what the Republicans said but what they didn't say.
They do not like government helping people they feel the government is only good when they want to be in it. If Republican's think government is so bad why don't they leave the general population of people living in this democracy to their social issues and their unions and become community organizers. Get your base all rallied up to hate gay people and condemn raped women to endanger her own well being because the bible says so. My heart hurt when I watched the Republican's view of their America. I ever knew what they truly stood for. They just want to take our money and tell people that may not have the resources or knowledge or goal oriented drive to see a better life for themselves without the assistance of the government that they gotta just pull themselves up and fight! and make money anyway you can and don't give to communities.
I appreciate Cindy McCain's work abroad with all of those people who I know treasure and adore her and all that she has done for them. I ask though that she listen to the idea of her own medical resource for those who could not receive medical aide on their own in impoverished areas of the world and think of your fellow Americans. There are places here where we too need help. It would be nice to hope that Republicans were for the people, by the people, of the people. Not for the rich, by the W.A.S.P.s, of the oil companies.

P.S. Mitt, Bush is your President.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Bridge To Nowhere

It's almost too sad to imagine what our country might be like if a bunch of old white guys continue to believe that they are the America of the world. Their convention is boring. Sarah Palin's drama is awesome. No Hillary Supporter is going to vote for this chick just because she had some babies a few times. She shouldn't have lied about her daughter's first pregnancy and she shouldn't have hired lobbyists if she wanted to be considered a Maverick. Poor John McCain has been reduced to infancy. If he had truly began considering her in February surely he would have seen that she was "pregnant". Surely he would have figured "Well this lady is about to have a newborn, do I really want that down the hall from the oval office? Yes...I'm a Sidekick!" These poor deluded racists...Don't they remember that George W. Bush's grandfather provided the Jewish people who created weapons for the Third Reich? Don't they remember how Al Gore won in the year 2000? I was 15...I remember. Don't they remember the bombs that people heard at the base of the Twin Towers. How much can they shield us from our own curiosity. Where are their black people, their Spanish, asian, indian, guam...ese?, japanese, young people? The people that supported the 21 year olds of the world were so young they needed parental supervision. How many freethinking, open-minded, diverse and cultured people would attend their convention of their own volition and once there remain for the duration. They have no substance, no issues, no plans. Everything is okay as long as old white people still have giant earrings like the Bush women. Could McCain's adopted daughter have been more bored when clapping for her own father? She actually had to strap a magnet to her palms just to get them to react. I'm ranting, yes but c'mon. Look at the group of people they bring together. Ask yourself if thousands of white guys in bad suits on cell phones leaping in the air to get face time on CNN and their dutiful wives who mind the children and bend over on command truly represent the America we have grown to be. Could they rally 75,000 German people of all ethnicities who could stand side by side and feel blemished by the touch of another ethnicity?
I know the initial article had nothing to do with racism but I just watched the Convention and as a multiracial, 21 year old woman I felt extremely unrepresented and it is clear why. They are not looking for me, my opinions or my vote. They're ready towage a war against a law that has been putting in place to protect the individual rights of our human citizens which include woman who might not be ready to care for a child when their house is in foreclosure and their boyfriend just lost his job and her first kid is throwing up blood all over the groceries. The Republicans were well represented tonight.
As to Sarah Palin, I would assume it obvious that she would have such fanatical views. She lied to her town about what their eyeballs were actually seeing when she told them she was seven months pregnant before she remembered to add the pillow to her wardrobe. She claimed that she cared about the people of a town everyone was quick to call "Nowhere" and here she is doing a fine job of paving a new one for she and her "Republican base". I find it interesting that the maverick, who goes across party lines when she feels so compelled is rejuvenating and exciting their geriatric "base". Wouldn't that means that her principals are strongly rooted in a like-minded viewpoint which she shares with her Bush loving party. She needs to stay home and consider how her daughter had eight months worth of mono, three traffic tickets during this strange "extended case", and somehow became healthy enough to be able to run off and get pregnant again by a guy who wants to play Hockey forever. The first picture I saw of him was with another girl draped over his back. Yet Sarah Palin on behalf of the conservative right wing has told him that he will be getting married and having one of those kids he doesn't want.
I'm sorry for what happened to John McCain and I wish no harm to him or his family or those of the Palin's or anyone in the world for that matter including Bush while discluding Cheney. However, it is not a stretch to assume that being a prisoner, held captive, beaten, kept in solitary confinement for two years...might leave someone with a little postpartum or y'know recurring nightmares, bedwetting, decision making malfunction, short term common sense loss, long term intelligence loss, oldness, melanoma, leaving wife for younger, hotter, richer, colder robot. Yes Palin should step down for the sake of the embarrassment she will continue to cause herself but first she shoudl tell us all about her 11 hour flight while leaking amniotic fluid onto her husband's foot and concluding in a 45 minute drive to a less equipped hospital for this special needs child who mattered so much he couldn't be safely born with no concerns in a hospital in texas. Or how about not traveling to make energy speeches while bristol has "mono" and is giving birth to your grandchild. What did she take care of her younger siblings while her muscles ached and her throat and uterine glands swelled and caused her immense pain? Bristol keep looking beautiful loving your baby and don't let Sarah take opportune pictures without bothering to put down her cell phone holding the infant. We know you love your child and your mother and it's sad that she will be remembered for all this drama but she could have said "Thanks but no thanks" on this new Bridge to National Infamy.