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Idiot Watch 9/16
About that ad..... you have to understand that McCain and the Republicans don't think they're stretching the truth. Obama has repeatedly said he is for "age-appropriate sex education" for kindergartners. (Replete with a poor Alan Keyes impersonation, but I guess I couldn't have done much better myself.) So McCain is not lying. I do say, however, he isn't telling the whole story about Obama's position.
But isn't that politics? Obama himself said the same thing about McCain just lately with this golden nugget: "It would have been nice if over the last 26 years that he's been in Washington that he (McCain) actually stood up for them (the American worker) once in a while."
In a word, balderdash! And Obama and his supporters calling McCain sleazy, dishonorable, sleaziest campaign ever, etc. Boy, do Obamaphiles have a short, short memory for national politics. Enough with the hyperbole, already. That also is lying.
As a father of a 5 year old who just entered kindergarten - I don't want him to know a thing about sex education from schools. Biology? Sure, I tell him where he's from. There is a portrait I took of him at 1-second old hanging on his bedroom wall. It's titled "Infinite Possibility." Should the schools tell him to stay away from potential predators? Absolutely! But that is not sex education, that's common sense survival skills. And if the predator happens to be white, Hindu, or Latino, are we then speaking of cultural education? Come on!
Barack's latest attack ad quoting the media as dismissing John McCain with rough pejoratives, is actually quoting the stories within the media that in turn quotes the Obama campaign. Barack is quoting himself and passing it off as media confirmation.
Uh....?
Now on to the economy. We're in big trouble. You know that. While I respect McCain for trying to boost our national confidence, public statements of denial are counter-productive. Man up, McCain!
By the way, does Obama dissing Keyes count as racism? What I'd rally like to see is his Todd Gitlin impersonation: I'm sure it would include feasting on his own flesh.
And finally, McCain is still an ABBA fan!!!!! Oh, the horror.
I suppose I could waste my breath here and exhort everyone out there to stop acting as if you're above the fray, and trash your holier-than-attitudes. But.... hey... wait a minute! I just did waste my breath.
'Till next time......







Comments (8)
Hang in there. Many, many idiots to watch here.
September 16, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yet you choose to spend time here. Fascinating.
September 17, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
September 16, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, demosaur, I know.......... :)
September 16, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ads are part of the game and as pointed out all of the ads stretch the truth - the best example of this is the ad that claims that McCain cannot use email - while this is true it is not because he doesn't understand the concept it is because of his injuries from being a POW. Funny how the Obama ad fails to mention this as well.
As for the economy - the president has very little that he or she can do to help to improve the economy - but they can do a lot to screw it up. If Obama gets elected he is going to tax us into a recession - if McCain is elected then we could continue to have problems because of a lack of regulation. Either way they can both screw up the economy.
Politics is the art of lying to the people without looking or sounding like your lying. No politician can be successful without that ability.
As far as the "politics of change" if either one gets in the White House it will be a change because the person in there is not going to be George Bush. Speaking of George - I am sick and tired of hearing that he was the worst president this country ever had - does anyone remember Jimmy Carter or how about Herbert Hoover or James Buchanon. One question should completely blow this fiction out of the water - have we been attacked, in our homeland, since 9/11? No - then he is not the worst president in history - actually not even close.
September 16, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jimmy Carter was a stellar president. Maybe you didn't like the inflation, but as Volcker said in the film IOUSA, it had to be dealt with. We've been ignoring the issue for thirty years now, and adjusting in the future is going to be really hard.
You may not like remembering how the cowardly American people colluded with the Iranian Revolutionary Government to put an oil-friendly chief executive in the oval office, but it's what happened. It does challenge one's faith in representative democracy, but you'd be better off facing the truth.
September 17, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's injuries are not keeping him from using a computer. He was quoted a few months ago saying he was trying to learn the internet, he read a few blogs, etc. That is just Jonah Goldberg trying to cry POW at everything without actually being true.
September 17, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
For the record, Jimmy Carter was tops as president and still is tops as one of the most decent human beings ever birthed.
How's that for truthful hyperbole?
September 17, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
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