Category: political
04/17/08 08:40 - 60ºF - ID#44041
Confused or Furious, Last nights debate
This video sums it up. Although the clip is a few years old, ok it's from 1976.
Seriously, 50 minutes before we could talk about anything besides gossip? War, Inflation, outsourcing jobs, the environment, corruption, waste, fraud, fear, gas prices, recession, healthcare, people losing their houses, bridges falling down, and cities destroyed by floods, the things that actually matter in people's lives! Not a Priority.
After the debate I was thinking about the news media, not the candidates. Why the hell would they dwell on gossip for so long? do they think the American people really give a shit? They think Pennsylvania voters would rather talk about gossip than inflation?
The media is so interested in gotcha politics, and I don't think the American people really give a crap right now. Maybe if they weren't so worried about affording food, and healthcare, and gas, and mortgage payments next week. Or preoccupied thinking about what kind of world is going to be left for their children because of this war, the environment, and the national debt. Maybe, just maybe, we'd really want to get to the bottom of what he said and she said, but right now, we have better things to talk about.
The debate was another great reason for why people become cynical, and tune out politics. They aren't talking about anything that matters. This kind of politics is an insult to the nation. We really deserve better, especially now.
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Category: web
04/10/08 11:05 - 41ºF - ID#43970
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Category: life
04/07/08 10:43 - 53ºF - ID#43946
one of those days
I worked outside with the laptop today. Looking forward to many more days of that.
yea, she's soft and fuzzy... I think I just heard Paul sneeze. Sorry Paul.
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One of the big problems with our politics is that winning is more important then anything. Even now, when we're stuck in a shithole of disaster, and we need a serious leader to turn things around. This kind of crap doesn't help the country, and I thought that was the president's main job. We really deserve better.
HRC has a few ads circulating in PA. In one major market, they are all negative. In another they are split. If the mud slinging tactic didn't work in SC, where it is infamous (remember John McCain's black baby?) I don't see how it is going to work in PA. And the polls have only been showing the race tightening these past two weeks. She was ahead 20+ and now she is under ten in almost every poll that has come out in this time.
GHA! I am hijacking your thread with ramblings.