I’ve been teetering between whom I am backing for president in November. I’ve been a Obama supporter for some time. I debated voting for Edwards but he hasn’t oohed or ahhed me at all. Maybe that’s why populists never get voted: they’re too ordinary.
Here are my rankings for both the Democrats and the Republicans as the primaries take a turn towards Super Boozeday.
Democrats:
- Barack Obama: I should like him just for his inspiring oratories. They are some of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. On the issues, I agree with him the most on the issues. I feel his health-care solution is the only one on the table that’s actually feasible. He may not be as experienced, but some of the worst presidents in our country’s history (e.g., Eisenhower, G. Bush Sr., Grant, Buchanon) while some of our best had very little experience at all (e.g., Lincoln). I’ve always thought politics is more about leadership than experience. Experience is something you put in your cabinet.
- John Edwards: Why does it always seem like he’s running for vice president? Many Americans are wondering whether or not the country is ready to have a woman president. A poor showing by Edwards in South Carolina would surely kill the feminism movement.
- Hillary Clinton: Let me say this. Her health-care plan will either never happen or it will completely fuck up the economy. Secondly, she’s as polarized and divisive as George W. Bush is. She’s basically the leftist version of our current president. Thirdly, I can assure you that, if president, her foreign affairs will be terrible if not nonexistent — which is particularly disheartening since Al-Quada is growing exponentially in Afghanistan. Also, is she not the most pessimistic candidate you’ve ever seen? (Mitt Romney is a close second).
Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising home along a country road one evening when an ancient cow loomed in front of the car.
The driver tried to avoid it but couldn’t.
The aged cow was struck and killed.
Hillary told her driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the owners what had happened and pay them for the cow.
She stayed in the car making phone calls.
About an hour later the driver staggered back to the car with his clothes in disarray.
He was holding a half-empty bottle of expensive wine in one hand, a huge Cuban cigar in the other, and was smiling happily, smeared with lipstick.
“What happened to you,” asked Hillary?
“Well,” the driver replied, “the farmer gave me the cigar, his wife gave me the wine, and their beautiful twin daughters made passionate love to me.” “My God, what did you tell them?” asked Hillary.
The driver replied, “I just stepped inside the door and said, ‘I’m Hillary Clinton’s driver and I’ve just killed the old cow.’ The rest happened so fast I couldn’t stop it.”
Republicans:
- John McCain: Should be 10x more efficient as president than Bush, Hillary or Clinton. Why? No more polarization. This means that C-Span will feature congressional dialogue that doesn’t sound like how high school girls talk about each other. Honestly, Congress’ he-said/she-said b.s. is like watching a couple of retards hump a doorknob. I think McCain will actually get things done and take action, rather than just complain about everything. My friend Mark says that he is voting for McCain because he “is going to bring the glory of the Nixon years back to the Republican party, before the neocons took over.” I’m not so sure how much I agree with that but I think, if elected, he’d put a hinder on the wave of neoconservatism that the rest of us despise.
- Ron Paul: Only because I’d like to see what would actually happen.
- Mike Huckabee: Because the other two blow?
- Mitt Romney: Economically speaking, he’s a sound candidate. But he did nothing in Massachusetts, so why now?
- Rudy: I don’t trust the man. But my contempt for Guliani is nowhere near the New York Times.
As a New York-based paper, are we not backing Rudolph Giuliani? Why not choose the man we endorsed for re-election in 1997 after a first term in which he showed that a dirty, dangerous, supposedly ungovernable city could become clean, safe and orderly? What about the man who stood fast on Sept. 11, when others, including President Bush, went AWOL?That man is not running for president.
The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square.
Mr. Giuliani’s arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton, the architect of the drop in crime, because he couldn’t share the limelight. He later gave the job to Bernard Kerik, who has now been indicted on fraud and corruption charges.
The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city’s and the country’s nightmare to promote his presidential campaign.
Damn New York Times.
I read this crap column from Fox News. I loved reading the reader comments. This one perfectly displays what’s wrong with the “core” of the party.
If McCain wins this nomination I’m going to sit this election out and encourage every republican I know to send a clear message to the republican party – we will not tolerate a candidate who claims to be a conservative and in turn votes with the democrats. “Fiscal conservative” and “strong on defence” is simply not enough. The republican umbrela includes those things as well as gun rights, right to life, deregulation, less governement, personal responsibility. In fact if McCain wins, perhaps the stronger message would be a vote for Hillary.
The reason I was so upset was I thought I had my wallet stolen. Two days later, I find my brown wallet in a brown duffel bag of mine. I checked that bag four times. I’m a genius.
I also lost half of the CDs I own. Not sure how but they probably fell out of my backpack somewhere in Baltimore. This led me to finally cave in and buy an iPod. Well, I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs and I like Microsoft because of its philanthropy and business ethics, so I bought Microsoft’s Zune. Here’s a video to show how sexy the Zune really is:
Overall, I really enjoy it so far. It has nearly all of the features the iPod has and it ended up being a lot cheaper (30GB Zune=8GB Ipod). Plus, the video screen is larger and iPods have no durability whatsoever. I bought one once, and it broke in two hours. I didn’t even drop it; it broke while I was walking up stairs. I can customize the background, get FM radio with subtitles and share songs with other Zunes using the same wireless network. Best of all, I won’t look like one of those hipster doofuses with the iPods.
(Perhaps I shouldn’t have bought it, given all of the student loans I have to start paying soon. Ugh, entry-level jobs do not pay well at all.)
Web finds:
Will Ferrell invades MSNBC show.
Best question in a chat ever (from the Wash. Post):
Photo with Hillary: Should Hillary let this one go, or could she rebut the picture with the Obama “slumlord” guy by having her campaign make a photo montage of the thousands of other people she and the president had their picture taking with during their White House years, with the implication being that the president and first lady have their picture taken with thousands of people?
WTF?
Is it 2009 yet?
Why are criminals so stupid hilarious?
This is why I love the newspaper business:
- Dec. 22: Feature story written about 23-year-old frog on his death bed.
- Jan. 7: Whiny treehugger college student writes letter to editor criticizes frog for not being environmentally friendly, despite living behind glass in a kitchen.
- Jan. 25: Frog croaks. Obituary of frog gets published. Funeral held. Everyone’s sad. (Besides that stupid beatnik!)
