My reaction to John McCain’s speech last night…BULLSHIT.
The story was beautiful, POW. The theme, Washington is broken and we’re (Republicans) partly to blame. Very touching, but BULLSHIT.
Unless you’ve been in a coma the last four days, woke up to hear this speech and did not see a single bit of footage or read a single article, you would know that the last four days just contradicted anything relevant John McCain said.
Let me get this straight, you’re the party that’s suppose to reach across the aisle to get things done? But I was just told for four days that I’m to blame. Liberals, East Coast Liberals, Cosmopolitan Liberals, Elitist, the media, the elitist media, San Francisco, SF values….it’s everybody else’s fault except for the people who have been in control.
Listening to the convention, I could have sworn that the Democrats have been in power the last eight years. John Stewart said it best, “Electe us (Republicans) to fix the problems we are responsible for.”
I’m sorry, but I’m fed up with this crap. If I hear one more thing about small town America and small town values, I’m going to puke. Like somehow because I went to college, had success in my career and I live in the city, I’m not a true American. BULLSHIT!
I live in New York City and I believe in the Constitution. I don’t believe in God, yet I still have morals. I’m a liberal, but I’ve supported every war since I’ve been an adult, except the last invasion of Iraq. Disagreeing with a policy does not make me less of an American than anyone else.
Listen up people, you the ones that are still undecided…this election is about issues. What do you believe in? This election is not about character and you don’t make decisions with your gut. This election is not about voting for the first black guy or the first woman, either way, one is going to happen, so forget history. Just look at the party’s platform…the freaking Republicans not only want to prevent federal funding for stem cell research (which they have succeeded because of Bush’s veto), but they want to ban ALL private stem cell research!! Who is running this party? I thought John McCain was suppose to be some kind of Maverick. I guess he is, since a large majority of Americans support Stem Cell research.
Listen up people in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and New Hampshire…the states that will really decide this election. What do you believe in? What do you really believe in? New Hampshire has on their license plates, “Live Free or Die,” yet they voted Republican in 2000 and 2004. The same Republicans who have tortured and wired tapped illegally all in the name of ‘protecting you’. You vote for McCain, you can change that slogan from “Live Free or Die” to “Protect Me at All Costs.”
In November, when you go to make that decision, do NOT forget, you and I will be known throughout history as the generation that tortured. We allowed our government to use the same torture techniques that the Japanese used, the Nazis used and the North Vietnamese used on John McCain. Yet after four days of a Republican convention and they couldn’t even call the torture John McCain went through what it is…torture.
And before you let some moron claim that we only torture the worst of the worse, let me tell you yet again, BULLSHIT! Even if they were the ‘worst of the worst’ it doesn’t matter. What makes us GOOD and them EVIL is the fact WE DON’T TORTURE. Evil people torture, we don’t. Back in WWII, when German soldiers surrendered, they were happy to be captured by the Americans and not the Soviets. Why? Because we didn’t torture.
Of course John McCain has spoken out about this, good for him, but like he likes to say, it’s only words. When he had a chance to prevent the CIA from waterboarding, he voted against it. John McCain, war hero, POW who was tortured, voted against preventing the CIA from torturing. How can he justify this? He himself has correctly claimed that when people are tortured, they don’t reveal the truth, they reveal what they think you want to here, so how can he justify this? He can’t.
When you go into that voting booth people, you need to decide. Do I want to remain the generation of torture, or do I want to put a stop to this?
The time of ignorance has to stop. It is time to look at the issues and decide what is important to each one of you. The Republicans have their head so far up their own asses, yet they claim they are the party to lead. The same party who nominated a VEEP who is okay with the words “Under God” in the pledge because “if the founding fathers were okay with it, then (she) is okay with it.” WTF? Shouldn’t the person who is a heartbeat away from the Presidency know the history of the country? Should she know that the words ‘under God’ wasn’t put into the pledge until 1950? Didn’t she learn at one of her five colleges that the freaking pledge wasn’t created until the late 19th Century? The Founding Fathers didn’t believe in Pledging to a piece of cloth. How can she be Vice President and be expected to protect the Constitution if she’s never even read it? Has she even read the Bill of Rights?
Look back at that Republican convention and please God, tell me what you learned? Besides the fact that Liberals are all Elitist and the media is bad (despite the evidence), what did we learn? What policy did you hear about? What are the plans the Republicans have to fix the problems in this country. I heard one from McCain, the teacher’s Union! Yeah, get those commie…huh?
John McCain’s big plan is to go after the teacher’s Union? That’s his big plan. The economy is in the tank, millions are losing their homes, gas is up around four bucks, we’re fighting two wars (while McCain is picking fights with two other countries), global warming goes unchecked, but the big idea John McCain has is to go after the teacher’s union? Now that’s the reason to vote for McCain.
The other reason and the one that got the biggest applause all week long…drilling. Yep, Americans are addicted to oil, so what do we do? Give them more oil. This is where ignorance comes in. People, you need to do your homework. Let’s ignore that the oil companies already have 16 million acres of land they can drill on now, but choose not to. Let’s ignore the Environmental concerns. Lets even give the benefit of the doubt to the Republicans about how much oil is really there and guess what? You’ll never pay what you use to pay for gas…ever…again.
Let me explain to you how this works. Any oil the United States gets out of the ground and ocean goes into the global market. Read that again, it goes into the global market. All oil, from all countries, goes onto the global market. So whatever the price is, that’s what we’ll be paying for a barrel of oil. Even if the U.S. floods the market with oil, other countries will slow down production. Why? Because they don’t want oil to cost less than $100 a barrel. Will producing more domestic oil reduce the price some? Of course, but do you really believe oil companies are going to go back to charging $1.50 when the consumer has proven they’ll pay $3.50? Think about this real hard, if I’m a drug dealer and I have a Heroin addict willing to pay $100 for a bag of dope, do you think I’m going to start charging him $20 again?
A long time ago, the United States of America made the decision to lead by example and become a Industrialized nation. It paid off big time. Now we have the chance to lead the way in the new Industrialized movement…green. You can help make that happen, you have that choice. Vote for a party that believes in this, or vote for the party that doesn’t even believe Global Warming is man-made.
We the American people gave the Republicans full power eight years ago and look what it got us; a destroyed economy, lost homes, September 11th, failure to capture the man responsible for 9/11, two wars that have no ending in sight, wiretapping, secret prisons and torture (to just name a handful). All I’m saying is, maybe it’s time to give the other side their shot. I’m not saying Democrats have all the answers and can deliver every solution. However, at least we’re trying, while the other side is not even willing to admit there is a problem. It’s our time now.
