I am writing a political entry. I am a moderate leaning more to libertarian. However, I am doing what I never thought I would see. I am heartily supporting a pro-life choice.
You read that right... McCain/Palin are getting my vote.
Granted, I have been registered Republican since I was 18. I can't say that I ever really identified with either party. I split the ticket a lot of the time. For local candidates I rarely even look to political party because it doesn't really matter to me. Whoever is going to mesh best with my ideas is who I am voting for.
This election was different. I have a general distrust for both. As you all know B is from Chicago. I haven't met a person IRL who liked Obama or could name a single thing he did to make their lives better. There was one woman who was on a mommy message board with who loved him. We didn't see eye to eye on anything else, and everything she said seemed to come straight from his own website. If that is all I wanted I wouldn't have asked the question.
It has only gotten worse in the recent weeks. I am a news junkie. Love to read it, love to read the message boards, love to take it all it... Here are a few highlights I found this morning (the come from the Huffington Post and CNN -- not totally obscure places)
Lars
we shouldn't take pot shots at her obvious lack of parenting abilities? Please!Maybe is she spent more time Focusing on her own Family (pun intended) her daughter wouldn't be a pregnant teen. Every person, male or female, has the right to pursue a career. However, if you made the choice to bring 5 children into this world stay home and raise them! It's a spit in the face to every working parent who only wished they were financially capable of staying home with their children
Brian
Palin is a bigot (at best) who used her baby as a political tool at the RNC and should be ashamed of herself for doing so. If she actually read something, she would have know that the chances of having a downs syndrome baby in her mid-late 40's is extremely high and I think she was absolutely irresponsible for not taking steps to prevent getting pregnant at such an age in the first place. She absolutely disgusts me.
Oh REALLY?! Well consider the vast majority of mom's are WORKING mom, isn't that a kick in the balls. I guess Larsy boy here thinks that my ass should be sitting at home with the kids. Could we afford for me to... yeah, now that we live in PA we could. Of course we couldn't afford to send my kids to school or do anything else in the world for them, but yeah, we could. Guess I thought that was my CHOICE. I didn't realize having a uterus automatically forced me to be the stay at home parent. (of course Larsy boy here doesn't address the other side of the coin, which is of course ... Obama - greatest daddy in the world of course - has spent a grand total of like a month with his own kids in the last two years!!)
And Brian... so no one over 40 should have a kid? Really, even though the odds are still only in the teens that the child would have downs syndrome? The only thing that is disgusting is your obvious ignorance. Trig is a blessing, just like any other baby. I am blessed to have an downs syndrome child in my pseudo family (I have talked about O at length here). So what really is your point -- that she shouldn't have had a baby or she shouldn't have had a downs syndrome baby? Again though -- it was her CHOICE. Sorry Trig doesn't fit into YOUR definition of perfect ... he sure as shit does fall into my definition of it. And as for my friend whose daughter has DS... she was 29 when she had her. Doesn't that just burst your little bigot bubble. Pot. Kettle. Black.
For a party that is supposed to be all about CHOICE it is amazing how quickly one is jumped on for their choices. I didn't realize that choice was all about aborting a kid. Or staying home if we could afford it. Or doing any number of the rabid things put forth on message board recently.
And talking about choice... how can I support a pro-life candidate... Because I would rather one have to deal with the consequences of their own actions, myself included, rather than have our president pretend the world isn't as scary as it really it. Do the Republicans fear monger? Hmmm.. an Iran with nuclear arms and a Taliban that flaunts around in their victims uniforms... HELL no. You got knocked and don't want the kid... give it up for adoption. No one is talking about life of the mother issues here either, because even Palin supports abortions in that situation. McCain expands it further to include rape and incest. But is that really likely to change with a Democratic Congress in place... hell no!
As far as abstinence only education... why is that even an issue? I don't look to the schools to teach my kids this stuff and I sure as shit don't want a clinic handing out birth control to my nieces or condoms to my boys. If they need condoms and don't have the money, they will know all they need to do is ask me or B for $. I am not going to encourage them to have sex, just like my parents didn't, but they are sure as hell going to know that if they do they better fucking wrap it up no matter what! When NYC put a ban into effect forbidding formula samples from being given out free at hospitals there was a freaking uproar about taking away choice. No there wasn't. It's called making you fiscally responsible for your choice. You don't want to pay to feed your kid... breastfeed. It is free.
And as much as I am for a helping hand, I am not for long term hand outs and every "policy" of Obama is all about "the poor, the lowest income, ..." Lets just call it what it is... the lazy asses who don't even try. I have friends who have needed welfare for various reasons and I think it is amazing that there is such a program to help. You know what doesn't help... people earning more money for staying home and collecting welfare. Hell my one friend couldn't get help because she actually had a job. Couldn't really make ends meet with a total deadbeat daddy in the picture, but she busted her ass trying. That is totally ass end backwards!!! How about giving her a bonus for busting her ass and actually trying to do what is right. Personal responsibility is an amazing thing -- something seriously lacking in this country.
Obama ... this is one highly educated white woman who didn't fall for your hope and dream shit. Maybe put out a REAL plan with a way to pay for it rather then picking my pocket and we can talk. But hey... I am just a white woman. We all know you don't give a shit about me.
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So glad to hear there are other educated "White" women who are not falling for Obama's shit! I am sick of all of the two sided talk when he can't back it up. Nice post!
Where is the McCain campaign persuading you that they're going to improve your life, or the life of the millions of other Americans? All I heard at the convention was false promises also base on nothing but fear.
Also, are you making more than $603,000 a year -- cause I'm not.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html
Also, I do not have any faith in a woman uneducated in foreign policy or legal issues...who has spent an entire career as a small town mayor, and then thrust for a brief stint to governor of a unpopulated state...who also happens to be a born-again Christian fundamentalist...I have no faith this woman will be respected by the foreign leaders whose support and diplomacy we require to solve the debacles we are currently engaged in. And she is a heartbeat away from the Presidency -- so that matters immensely.
And the line about him not caring about "white women?" WTF?!?! Are you kidding me?
Yes Katie -- it was tongue in cheek about white women since that seems to be all the anyone is pandering too.
Heartbeat away from the presidency is a lot different from the freaking president. Do I want someone who wants to sit and talk about everything (like someone we both know) or do I want someone like Bill who takes the bulls by the balls and makes a freaking decision? Hmmm. That is hard to decide. I left GT because of one and I mourned leaving GT because of the other.
If you honesty think that your bottom line isn't going to be effected by the taxes to businesses? And you know I don't make $603K. I will still be killed by the AMT if it isn't made permanent. I would rather put that money into college for MY kid rather than into someone else's hand.
I don't care if my taxes are cut or not. I want a quality education for my kids -- rather then this crap that has happened in PA under Rendell where 90% of the day is spent teaching to a test. I want my kids to be safe. And more importantly I want the government the hell out of my parenting decisions. The democrats only promise to get more entrenched and more involved with that. Teaching my kids about sex... hell no. Over my dead body. I don't act like my way is the right way. It is the right way for my family and to have someone tell me different... well that will be a problem.
To answer your question -- neither party is really telling me that they are going to improve my life. Maybe the difference is that I don't EXPECT the government to improve my life. I can handle that myself. I just ask they don't make it totally burdensome. And more importantly, I don't care if they improve MY life -- I do care if my kids lives are improved.
But Katie -- even smart people disagree. You know I still respect your opinion. I just don't agree.
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