Bruce The Psychic Guy ([info]bitpig) wrote,
@ 2008-06-13 21:49:00
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the happening world / more election-related bullshit, please!

The American Thinker, 11 June:

Our beloved country, freedom's last redoubt, civilization's only power capable of resisting the advancing tide of barbarism, keep of Castle Earth, is seriously contemplating elevating to the presidency Barack Obama, an effete academic weakling, a messianic soothsayer, perfervid followers in tow, who believes America's collective soul is broken and that He has been called to mend it, a caricature Euro Statist whose voting record and public utterances reflect passionate belief in all the discredited far leftist critiques of America (and their attendant fixes), a dreamy naïf with a permanently adolescent world view born of lifelong refusal to work in the real world, a thinly disguised leftist revolutionary who for decades eagerly immersed himself in a vile crowd of crypto-Marxists, quislings, racists, domestic terrorists, and antisemites, and who now simply says, calm as you please, he never really shared their views, a twenty-eight carat tyro whose resume of accomplishments would fit neatly on the back of a Visa card, a man whose scary wife (whom the candidate himself seems to fear) dislikes the country that has showered her with great good fortune. Sorry. I know that sentence exceeded its grammatical carrying capacity, if not its potential content.

Barack Obama, measured by his chosen life experiences, closest associations, voting record, and pre-presidential campaign utterances, is, in personality and experience, the least qualified, and, in philosophy and program, most radically left candidate ever offered for the presidency by the Democratic Party. By comparison, George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry seem the very embodiment of presidential readiness and political moderation.
At least George McGovern was a real war hero.

For the record: despite his own war-hero status, I don't think John McCain is any good for the country either.

No matter who wins in November, I'm boned.

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[info]squidflakes
2008-06-14 03:18 am UTC (link)
Man, this one is a wild ride eh?

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[info]chaotic_state
2008-06-14 01:58 pm UTC (link)
It still bothers me greatly that for every year I've actually been able to vote, it's never been a matter of "who is better for the country" but rather "who isn't as bad for the country". Just once... just once I want to vote for a genuinely good candidate rather than trying to evaluate the lesser of two evils.

In Barack Obama, we have a two-faced, naive idealist who is lulling America into a cloud of peace and merriment - a cloud that is obscuring the real world and real issues facing us now. In John McCain we have an aging zombie whose only real appeal is that "he's better than the guy we have now" and who will most likely die from one of his many health-related issues before the end of his elected term.

I love America. I love the open lands, the opportunity to achieve, and the freedom to be who and what I am. I don't think it's broken, I think the gears have gotten a bit rusty from decades of petty squabbling and pointless in-fighting. Perhaps if we dumb some of the baggage we've been dragging all these years, lube the gears a bit, and focus on our people, our land, and what's best for us in the future... well maybe then we will again have a country deserving of the pride many of us share.

I personally feel that so-called 'career politicians' are overpaid self-serving opportunists. Perhaps the only 'system' that needs to be fixed is their pay scale?

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[info]puppyfuu
2008-06-14 05:03 pm UTC (link)
I was truly hopefuly (for a very brief time) that this time around would be different and with the Republican party as HOSED as it was that this was the year that a third party really and truly had a legitimate shot. I dunno if the ridiculously long Democratic primary actually killed that by making it seem that the Republicans have a chance or if "reality" and "acceptance" by the masses makes that again seem too far remote. Whatever the case, we really do need a change (and I don't mean Obama's paper-thin platitudes) at the top. I think my surrender has manifested in the awareness that at least if Obama is elected, my stock portfolio will probably see good gains when the media goes back to promoting our country instead of dogging it. Sure he'll tax the hell out of it too, but maybe at least my far off retirement will look pleasant. -_-;

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