A Semi-Interesting Tuesday

So it comes to the American People the decision of who would compete for the office that will lead this once great nation for the next four years. Given their decisions to nominate and elect Bush twice, one can understand my great reservations that they will make a smart decision this time around.

So it has come to humble servants of the people such as myself to break through all the political slander, swift boat ads funded by underhanded false patriots who would much rather squander in their own self deluded filth, than enjoy a true intellectual debate.

The two Candidates for the Communist, I mean Democrat, Party are Barak Obama, and Hillary Clinton. Both would do superior jobs as an executive, especially when compared to their predecessor, Mr. Potato Head. What separates these two is a slight, but at the same time profound difference of tone.

Barak Obama has the tome of a man with a dream. These inspire us to reach for greatness because they believe that we can in fact achieve whatever goal if only we were to apply ourselves and the hard working tenacity that defines Americans. It is that innate sense of inspiration that made Reagan a cult figure for those who are to worship no god before God. (Although they are sure that God surely did not mean Reagan)

Obama faces a challenge that is the experience of George Bush. One may look at several number of wonderful history making events that this country has had to deal with from a man who was learning on the job. The world is much more complicated than American’s thought in 2000, and having a new kid on the block may not be so much better than a known commodity.

Hillary Clinton on the other hand is a woman with a plan. The devil is in the details, which is why one may always find Cheney to be found there. The tone of her campaign is to show us the path to tread to achieve greatness, because she has the ability to see things that the average American can’t. Hillary faces two great challenges. The first is that she is a woman, and an ambitious one at that. Americans may like to say women can reach for the star, just so long as she doesn’t conscience decisions along the way to make that goal a reality.

The second challenge is that with Clinton’s tone of having a plan insinuates that she has the answers. There is a reason why the science dweebs get shoved in lockers, because no one likes to feel they don’t have answers. That and it is a fun thing to do that builds one’s, not the one in the locker of course, self esteem. Being seen as smarter than everybody is intimidating, which is why Bush is such a likable guy, cause he can’t even intimidate his dog.

On the God’s Creationist but still piddle little boys, of course I mean Republican Party, they have a bit of a harder message to wade through. This is of course because Bush did not have a plan for what would happen once he stopped being President. One would think that can be seen as a theme, then then the Republican’s don’t like to think so much as be told what to do. (That is why subsidies for white farmers is necessary but subsidies for urban black people is unforgivable betrayal of our nation’s principles)

The three candidates are a POW, Mormon, and Environmentalist Evangelical. One would think given the historical stances of the Party, that the last two would be shot, rather than seen as legitimate choices. God has shown that science is false, and that global warming is merely the tool of Satan’s Scientists to keep aborting gay babies. (Although an interesting question would be if abortion is wrong, and gays should be killed, is aborting a gay baby a sin? I digress…)

McCain’s message is simple, he used to be a maverick that did not roll to the whims of the extremists of his party and is therefore a good guy. Although he looks to his competition and says I am the only truly not crazy guy left running for the nomination so I kinda have to get it. His challenge is that he became the lapdog of a man who used sleazy campaign tricks, meant to take advantage of racial discrimination, to be the nominee in 2000. Thus he is seen as a little tainted and somehow less noble than he used to be.

Romney’s message is more about the war in Iraq, wait the polls now says he cares about healthcare. Wait the new polls says that he cares about illegal immigration. Now is says that he is to make Hannah Montana tickets available for free. Abortion tolerable, Abortion very bad, Mormons are Christians too, somebody believe me! His big problem is that he is a poll (pole) driven Mormon who belongs to a party that thinks that flip flopping is a democratic tool to get elected, and that Mormons are a cult.

Huckabee is quite simply a well meaning idiot, whose message is that he wants to keep appearing on the Colbert Report. His challenges are that the writers strike is on and that Colbert has waged his own war against Conan O’brian.

That is who you get to decide will annoy us with terrible commercials until November, on A Semi-Interesting Tuesday.

Democratic Downer

Well after an interesting and entertaining, albeit misleading, State of the Union Address by the President Bush the Democrats laid a big giant egg on the rebuttal.

While the Pelosi era as Speaker has been historic, being the first woman speaker, what it has served to prove is why chicks haven’t obtained that high of an office in the past.

The Armenian Genocide bill she pushed for was a fantastic failure of wrong place, wrong time, and wrong messenger.  That decision pails however in her decision on who to have give the democratic response to the President’s speech last night.

The first thing that came to mind was how vastly the Democrats underestimated the overall tone of the Presidents speech, and how unfamiliar people from Kansas are with teleprompters.  The only thing I remember from the response was the awkward pauses while the teleprompter catches up.

Its not too surprising since Kansas doesn’t believe in electricity, or running water, because it isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Bible, and is therefore a tool of the desolate one.  They are also the home of that Crackpot Baptist church that protests at US soldiers funerals and chanting that God desired their death.

The tone of the Democratic response was one of timidness and uncertainty.  In these times of color coded warnings, that is not acceptable.  American’s require boldness, and sometimes informed boldness, in their leaders.

Telling the country that they would do what Bush did not: giving the military the tools to get the job done, not supporting blanket immunity for Mercenaries, and not seeking to circumvent treaties dealing with torture, would have been a much better speech.

Republicans have painted the Democratic party as tree hugging, skinny cause they are vegan, glasses wearing, dodge ball fearing, educationally elitist, don’t like to kiss girls(unless they are fat chick interns) gay marrying, pansy asses.  One does not counter that argument by having a timid housewife who got to be governor of a state nobody cares about because her daddy was a governor too.

That is what you call proving your enemies point.  Republicans don’t have a misinformed, gun toting, bible thumping, Nascar loving, cow tipping,  sentence butchering, Kentucky Fried Chicken eating, baboon give their speeches do they?  Well sometimes they do, but they also have assertive, crazy, some people think are hot, chicks talk too.

The point is you have to have a tough guy or gal give the counter arguments to Bush these days or you re-enforce his legacy seeking at any cost to the men and women of the armed services.  Going quietly into that good night is not something this Cowboy will do, no matter the timid desires of the Democrats.  All that will lead to is a McCain Presidency and a Democratic Downer.

Not That Kind Of Bi-Partisan

In the immortal words of the great Packers Head Coach Vince Lombarti, “What the hell is going on out there?” It could go down as an era of the most self-serving win at all costs political cutthroats of all time. The GOP has built its foundation on the premise of two things, being white and rich. Well lets be fair, small government is in the mix somewhere, as well as a literal interpretation of the Bible, well the Protestant one, not the true Catholic one. *wink* Used to be something about Constitutional restraints on power, well I am sure we will find out when a Democrat is elected President, what with all the “do as I say, not as I do” GOP grandstanding.

Now it seems if you throw a rock into a GOP meeting you are going to peg a someone in the closet. The closet isn’t always flaming, but where there is smoke…

It would be less frustrating and seemingly less hypocritical if it were Democrats were the ones with members revealing they were homosexual because well, gay rights has been part of the party’s platform. That and not making stupid foreign policy decisions, making doctors learn about evolution, trying to at least appear interested in alternative fuels, and giving kids medical care. You know: girly stuff.

Now I understand that the policy of the United States has been, some people ain’t people and therefore do not get the same rights as everybody else. Indians, Blacks, Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Indians/Arabs and Homosexuals have all been discriminated against, with varying time spans and the level of violence aimed towards them. It is not something to approve of, but necessary to acknowledge.

What has not been seen within these minority groups is the brazen attempt to better one’s own position by specifically subjugating others like you, to increasing levels of disdain and intentionally using legal methods to legislate this disdain. I mean sure, there is a history of gang affiliation and crime syndicates that prey on their own, but this would not be seen as “legitimate” discrimination. I mean its not like blacks are advocating that they have their rights legally stripped with a Constitutional Amendment. Whereas gay Republicans seem to be.

What appears to have happened is that the Republican Party ranks have a number of Homosexual-Americans within their ranks that are so self-loathing they feel they must punish anyone else with their same sexual persuasion.

No-matter your faith or creed, that is not justifiable. Making others pay for the mistakes, perceived or real, that you have committed is not a moral code anyone would advocate. It is certainly not included in the fabric of our judicial system, where do the crime do the time, has been its mythos.

Our country went through a Civil War, and it was the determination of President Lincoln that the Principles of this country were enumerated by the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution, though vastly important; is nonetheless, merely the attempt to implement the principles listed in the Declaration. For those of you who are Republicans, principles are things that guide your decision making process, and are often based in moral understandings of right and wrong. For example, my principles lead me to believe that FOX NEWS is a hate mongering network more interested in promoting a very narrow minded agenda to maintain the false belief that extremely wealthy people have the same hardships as poor people. That an Ann Coulter is a she-demon spawned from the very bowels of the darkest place in hell.

It is now come to us, same as our forebears, to decide what kind of country we are going to be. Do we hold ourselves to the highest standard of liberty and justice, or do we acknowledge that such attempts are folly and that man as a species will always try to undermine someone else to feel better about themselves? For myself, it is hard to become inspired by,

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men, and no women are created equal. That they are endowed by Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, with alienable rights should anyone attempt to defy him, his teachings, or his followers. Among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. In the Christian God’s name we pray, Amen”

So keep wrapping the flag around your self loathing brethren GOP, just know, we don’t need that kind of Bi-Partisan Leadership.