My bile is up – I have to post this here as I have in other people’s face-book (my mom and sister, oye)!
Vice in GoGo Boots was the article I commented on: That was a really stupid editorial. The Times continues to go down-hill. If you can’t look for good here you don’t get it. I’m disappointed you couldn’t find a better bit of writing to do your satire. How fun it is to degrade a woman for being a woman. How odd it is to compare a potential VP to a First Lady. How stupid it is to focus on shopping and a breast-pump then execution on the job. It may be satire but its just like the satire about Obama’s race – stupid and it lingers.
I know my mom and sis think this is an insult to women – that the republicans just picked her for the woman vote. The conspiracy theory people all think the religious right is forcing him to do things. Who the hell knows, its all crap anyway. Mom makes a point that Liz Dole would have been better, that Palin should focus on Alaska and her family. Okay, good point - I agree Alaska needs her. Sis believes Hillary is a brilliant, educated, dedicated, person who best represented her views. I guess I wouldn’t have voted for Clinton because she is nothing like me, I’m not brilliant, barely educated and she doesn’t represent my views. Neither does Obama. I’m not thrilled with McCain and I don’t know enough about Palin and Biden is not my kind of politician. What the hell am I going to to. I’ll tell you this…
I give up – you both win. I will only vote for ugly women who don’t love their children from now on. Never mind the the many women I come in to contact every day who’s husbands take care of their children while they help change the world. Case in point – I work with 5 women, 3 have children, they are loving mothers who’s husbands keep house or work as well, and they are better salespeople then me. Imagine that.
Had it been Hillary I would have thought twice, Obama scares me. He is a demagogue and a populist, he will make ignorant people follow blindly and intelligent people afraid to speak their mind out of guilt. Its all wrong. You know what really bothers me, people love to judge from a bias point of view with the Republican party. Perhaps Liz Dole didn’t want to be VP, maybe she is tired of all this crap? I’m sure he would have picked Colin Powel in a heart beat but he and his wife don’t want him in the race anymore. And every time the Republicans put an African American or a Woman or an African American woman in a position of power she is a "Token" or a Frumpy Old Woman. Bush has put more blacks and women in appointed roles then any other administration, including Clinton. He has silently done more for Africa and Aids then any other president. I’m a pragmatist more then a staunch conservative but I feel the pressure to be "conservative" as they are the only ones being practical these days.
The Democrats continue to shift so far to the left and destroy even keeled thinkers like Joe Liberman with ignorant policies based on guilt and condescension. I want my kids to think about the environment and to care about the poor; but I want them to do it by contributing to our economy, changing the way we do business, contributing jobs and helping others to stand up on their own. Its not about redistribution of wealth, its about expansion of wealth. Its not about feeling sorry for the poor black man, its about the idea that three of the top four executives in my company are woman and we are one of the best run companies that I’ve ever been exposed to let along a part of. I don’t know everything about her but I went out and read both sides (as you saw in my post) – good and bad if you didn’t like the Bush administration, this certainly won’t be business as usual:
New York Times: Governor Palin "Took Intense Criticism From Members Of Her Own Party For Turning The Spotlight On The Failures Of Alaska Republicans." "But Ms. Palin ran as a change agent when she was elected as governor of Alaska in 2006, and in a move that might have appealed to Mr. McCain, she took intense criticism from members of her own party for turning the spotlight on the failures of Alaska Republicans, some of whom had been beset by corruption scandals." (Michael Cooper And Mitchell L. Blumenthal, "McCain Chooses Palin As Running Mate," The New York Times, 8/29/08)
If you want change – there it is, from within. Obama should have picked Hillary, McCain should have picked Liberman or Romney. There is too much change in this race.
Obama’s always been a senator – debating and legislating. And only on the national stage since 2006. He has been in our US Senate for 2 years and campaigning for the last 8 months (or more). I "hope" if he becomes president that he will know how to run things, will pick a cabinet that helps him and that he doesn’t debate over things, defer to other countries, do the "right" thing all the time – at the expense of our country as a sovereign nation. He has power over our youth because he says things, he is handsome, he is a preacher. I don’t like that – I want kids to be thinking not following. Kennedy was a wonderful leader -but he became paralyzed in so many of his decisions and did some pretty stupid things along the way. I’m sorry his life was ended so soon as he might have had time to learn from those mistakes, and changed things with his actions rather then his death.
I’m not sure and I haven’t been sure from the start the McCain was the right man for the job. But I’m getting closer with these conversations. In the end I think Obama will win, we will become a part of the European union and pay a VAT and Income Tax – I won’t have any money for retirement but it won’t matter because the state will take care of everything for me and my kids.
