Poli-ticked Off

$47,000 and some change. Man, Joe the plumber must be awesome to pull in $250,000. Someone is getting ripped off, he must have some government contracts.

http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/majors_careers/profiles/careers/104058.html

Lipstick on a pig is a sexist comment against Palin – whatever. Was McCain’s sexist too?

Did he? I recall nothing in his speech about what he is planning to do. It was all about national security and his past. He’s been in office for almost as long as I’ve been alive, has ran for the oval office 3 previous times. Really, what do I not know about him.

The one thing he really touched on was energy, and using drilling. Well, here’s a note in case no one is paying attention, George W. removed the presidential ban on off-shore drilling already, it’s up to congress right now. Personally, I’m not convinced that more drilling is going to fix anything. I’d rather see us jump on board the T boone Pickens train and use natural gas, coal, solar and wind then drill more. Oil isn’t the answer.

The democrats have had control of congress for a year and a half, barely. They narrowly have the majority, which anyone and everyone knows doesn’t mean anything unless you have a democratic president. In order for congress to get things done, you have to have either 1) a congressional majority and the white house, or 2) 3/4 of congress. The republicans are the ones that had both the white house and the congress and created the mess we’re in. Bills don’t get made into laws unless you can meet one of those 2 points.

I must admit I am surprised. I know little about her except for that true conservatives like her. I also know that she has ties to big oil, but not necessarily the bad kind. I know she has made environmental moves as well. I also know that if anything happens to 72 year old John McCain she takes the reigns.

Now we all know that the VP doesn’t decide the election, but this certainly can’t hurt McCain. Especially if he chose Palin to try and get the female democratic vote.

I guess this race just got a lot more interesting. We’ll see what happens when we start learning more about Sarah Palin.

There going to push Pawlenty because of his economic past, he was able to balance the Minnesota budget. He reduced an almost 5 billion dollar deficit without raising taxes. How did he do it you ask, he cut funding to things like welfare and other social programs. He also cut funding to transportation. Well, these cuts balanced the budget alright and he didn’t have to raise taxes.

Hold on though, do transportation funding cover the repair of bridges?

Also, he got profit sharing on Indian casinos though gambling is illegal in Minnesota unless you’re a tribe. He also raised fees, not taxes almost $500 a person. So regardless of how much money you made, a million or $12k, you got hit for an extra $500. He also raised tuition at state colleges. So only if you were going to a state school did you get screwed on that one.

Yep, there really isn’t anything different. Both sides promise that there will be a pop machine in every classroom. The democrats are the average kids that want to be friends with everyone and the republicans are all the asshole jocks that bullied the other kids. If you don’t believe me just watch CNN, every republican strategist or commentor is an asshole that acts like they’re better than everyone else. The way they scoff at everyone and make fun of people. I hate them all. They’re ultra elitist. Everytime I see one on TV I want to punch them in the face because they’re acting like deuche bags. These are the guys that are supposed to be “better” Christians, what ever that means.

Then we have the democrats that are like a bunch of emo kids that fight against each other. I’m watching some girl on tv right now that loves clinton but won’t vote for obama. She’s probably a man hater and doesn’t care about the issues. Clinton and Obama have such similar views but she would rather see McCain in office than vote for Obama. Elizabeth Joyce of Just Say No Deal – you’re a dueche. I hope your kids go to Iraq. She wants Clinton, she says she’s a staunch democrat but she won’t vote for Obama. This is why democrats are always going to lose, because they like to cry. They want to be cuddled.

So, I’m calling it – McCain is going to win because democrats can’t get their shit together. I hope all the democratic emo kids are happy cutting themselves because “nobody gets me”. 2 options – stand up for the ideals you believe in not the person you’re in love with OR cry like a baby, pout, and let the other side win.

Seriously, who cares? If two guys or two girls decide to get hitched I don’t care, it doesn’t effect my marriage to my wife at all, not a bit. People that talk about marriage is sacred, it’s a bond between a man and a woman, blah blah blah. Over half of this country’s marriages end in divorce – over half! How the hell is marriage sacred if over half of them end in divorce?

I’m serious, someone tell me how marriage is sacred if over half are failed, or how gay people getting married somehow tarnishes my marriage.

John McCain, if marriage is so sacred and is defined as between a man and a woman, does it matter how many? You leaving your wife, man, that’s awesome. Way to cherish marriage, it seems so holy when you do it. John Edwards, you’re pretty awesome too, I remember you campaigning that marriage is between a man and woman as well. It doesn’t matter if you cheat on that woman while she’s fighting cancer – no, hell no, as long as it’s a woman you’re cheating on it’s biblical.

Yeah, the bible says gay is bad. In the same part of the bible it says that cutting your hair is bad, planting 2 types of crops in the same field is bad, harvesting crops from that field before a couple of years is bad, but – it is a-okay to sell a daughter into slavery.

Just because you aren’t gay, and you don’t really like the thought of two same-sex people together, doesn’t make you any better than those people. If my favorite color is blue, and yours is green, I’m not going to say you’re going to hell and you’re a second class citizen because your favorite color sucks. I’m not going to think you’re second class because you listen to knee-slapping hill-billy music and you’re probably missing teeth. Stop thinking you’re so effing righteous.

I wasn’t too shocked when I went to CNN this morning and saw that Biden was named the running mate of Obama. Was there honestly a better choice? Maybe he could have picked Harry Potter or Batman, or someone like that. That could probably ensure that the youth vote would go for Obama. McCain wasted no time in launching his attack ad, using Biden’s words against Obama. Wow, that was genius (yawn). The McCain camp also wasted no time in commenting on the slips made during the announcement when Obama called Biden “the next president of the United States”. This coming from McCain, the king of slip-ups. It was McCain that called for exploiting the oil fields of the far north.

Now, the question is who McCain is going to pick to be his hack? Romney? Romney could have at least did decent things for our economy, but he made some pretty harsh comments about McCain and his retardiness in regards to said economy. Since McCain is attacking Obama using Biden’s words, what would that mean if Romney was chosen.

I think the attack ads should stop, and if they won’t talk about issues – what they will do, not what the other won’t do – then I think it should be settled through a fight to the death. An old crusty guy that has permanent injuries from torture – but does have a military background and a temper that will cause him to fire nukes off at a country for looking at him wrong VS. a younger, more athletic opponent who prefers diplomacy to spending billions on war.

Could be a pretty awesome fight. I picture McCain turning into the Emperor from Star Wars and shooting bolts of lightening out of his withered fingertips.

Obama is releasing his energy plan today which involves off-shore oil drilling. A lot of people are going to come out and accuse him of flip-flopping, which I think is retarded if you view my post on flip-flopping you’ll see why. Hopefully the McCain camp will pull its head out of its ass and realize that they’ve already changed positions on this issue as well. Obama claims that opening up more off-shore drilling is his attempt to a bi-partisan energy bill.

Whatever.

I don’t think we’ve seen an energy plan from McCain at all, he just says lets drill off our coasts. I haven’t seen the Obama plan. What I do know, is that a president has 4 to 8 years to change America. Hopefully one of these guys will address how to significantly reduce our dependance on oil, not just foreign oil, over that time.