I’ll be honest, Hillary Clinton scares me a little, sometimes when she lowers her icy cold gaze in my direction (even if it’s just a picture on the Internet or on TV), I squirt a little pee in my pants. It seems (to me) like she’s an angry angry broad who’s working extra hard not to be an angry angry broad. This is understandable, she is married to Bill “hey baby!” Clinton.
Now on to the issues. Check out the issues section on her campaign site here. At first glance, there is some reasonable stuff there. However, where’s the beef? Most of this is rhetoric with little substance or solutions, and all I hear is the ‘ka-ching, ka-ching” of my tax rate increasing to pay for this stuff.
Look at this picture… shivers are running up my spine now, and I may have to change my spider-man underoos.
There is a new Ron Paul grassroots fundraising event planned for December 16th. This time it is to coincide with the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which I think is more appropriate than the blowing up the parliament thing from the last event. The goal is the same as before, get 100,000 people to contribute 100 bucks each to raise $10 million, the last event raised over $4 million. Again as with the event in early November, I was planning on contributing in December anyway, so this was a no-brainer for me to join. Spread the word if Ron Paul’s message is attractive to you, and don’t if it isn’t. Link to the site here: (Tea Party 07).
I will not vote for Fred Thompson. This is a very serious issue, besides some of the major platform areas where I completely disagree with Fred Thompson (such as his interventionist/empire building foreign policies and his misplaced focus on marriage and family building), he has what is commonly referred to as a “vagina neck”. Now I know what you are going to say “looks shouldn’t matter”, and they typically don’t. However, a President of the United States can’t have a vagina neck, if he had an ass chin (like Kirk Douglas) or a cock nose, I would be ok with it, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
One of the areas/platforms where I have been uncomfortable with Ron Paul’s stance has been economics and Paul’s belief that we should move back to a gold standard. This would typically make me cringe when he said it, as I think it perpetuates a common opinion that he is a wacky little dude. I began performing some research into it, and my head feels like a small alien is attempting to burst from my sinus cavity. I think my initial aversion to these statements were I had assumed that Paul meant a move back to the Breton Woods system that was established after World War II and ultimately failed in 1971. The more I look however, it appears that Paul and the flavor of Libertarian philosophy he espouses is following the Austrian school of economics. I am no economist, but have had some exposure to Macro and Micro economics in grad school, I think I will need to perform additional research so I completely understand the core issues. The more I look into this, the more I realize I have to learn. Fuck-it, maybe I should just watch TV. Your thoughts?
It turns out that a couple of prominent Obama supporters were influential in the rejection of Steven Colbert’s name from the primary ballots in South Carolina. According to a CNN.com article:
At least one member of the executive council, who requested anonymity, told CNN he felt “pressured” by former State Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum to oppose placing Colbert on the ballot.
Tenenbaum, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, is a high-profile supporter of Obama. Her endorsement of Obama in April was touted by the campaign in May, and she has appeared at several Obama campaign events, including the opening of a campaign headquarters this summer.
Booooooo South Carolina, and Booooooo the executive council, this just cements my opinion that Obama is a tool (even though it was his supporters and not the man, I still think he is a tool by association). Special interests in politics is out of control in this country.
Well it’s November 5th and the grassroots fundraising campaign I had mentioned previously has had significant positive impact to the fundraising goals of the campaign.  As of 2:30 PM today, the event has poured in over $2 Million additional buckaroos into the campaign. It’s a far cry from the ultimate goal, but with a few more of these, they might just get there. Click here to contribute if you are so inclined.
EDIT (11/6):Â It looks like the campaign ended up taking in something like $4.2 million bucks… really amazing.
A friend of mine (Chops) brought this to my attention, I had heard that Stephen Colbert was going to pull this stunt, however I didn’t know he was given “the Heisman” in SC. Chops Commentary:
The democrats in South Carolina have denied Stephen Colbert’s
application to run on their ballot … doesn’t sound very democratic to
me. They contend Mr Colbert is not a “viable candidate”, essentially not
taking him seriously. But politics and the political process in this
country are a joke. Why not give the reigns to a comedian?
I couldn’t agree with Chops more, what are they afraid of, the general public not taking the process seriously? I’m not sure if the general public’s opinion of politicians and the political process can be any lower, this would bring more attention to the process not take away from it (i.e., net positive dumb-asses).
A recent study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press shows a distinct media bias that effectively narrows the field of front-runners as a result, full article reported here on CBSnews.com. First off, “Project for Excellence in Journalism”, this is a tall order in our country (read horseshit), where if it ain’t sensational it ain’t news. But the results are expected, the strong media bias has narrowed the field to the top two Democrat front-runners (Clinton and Obama) and 3 Republicans (Giuliani, McCain, and Romney, all toolbags). The biggest take-aways from this report are these facts:
They argue that this election could represent a generational struggle in both parties, but that early media coverage failed to capture that fundamental tension.
“If American politics is changing,” the report concluded, “the style and approach of the American press does not appear to be changing with it.”
The internet communities have been harping about this for years, the main-stream media in this country is out of touch, and surprise surprise the main-stream media in this country are large corporations who don’t want a politics shift. I don’t see a solution except to start watching BBCnews, hell Americans might actually start to hear news from other places.
The senator from Illinois added that unfortunately, the Kyl-Lieberman amendment made the case for President Bush that we need to use our military presence in Iraq to counter Iran — a case that has nothing to do with sanctioning the Revolutionary Guard.”
The Kyl-Lieberman amendment passed 76-22 in the Senate last month. It calls, in part, for the Revolutionary Guard to be designated a terrorist organization. While Obama opposes the legislation, he was campaigning when the full Senate took up the bill and missed the vote.
So let me get this straight Obama, this amendment which you oppose, brings us closer to action against Iran (essentially labeling it as a terrorist state) and makes a case for long-term military presence in Iraq to counter the Iranian “threat”. This seems like an important amendment, and yet you were too fucking busy campaigning to vote against it even though you oppose it. Obama is the same asshole who goes after the voting records of his opponents on the campaign trail while he has the luxury of not having a voting record. Obama = tool.
I recently came across a grassroots fundraising event aimed at raising $10 Million bucks in one day for Ron Paul’s campaign (November 5th). The event is described here as:
Please join us this November 5th for the largest one day political donation event in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000.
You can subscribe to the cause via feedburner on the site, that is how they are tracking participants. They have some significant work ahead of them if they are going to achieve their goal of 100K participants, as of this posting the number of participants was in the range of 5,600. In any case, these are the type of events that will have to come off to make Paul’s overall goal of $12 Million dollars this quarter. As I have stated previously, Ron Paul’s campaign overall goal is aggressive, but the campaign may have a fighting chance if more of these grassroots events are successful. I was personally planning on donating in November, so I have joined the event.
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