The Jerk Store Called

I just wanted to quickly comment on Friday night’s debate. I personally felt that Obama did a fantastic job and looked so much more Presidential than McCain. He also showed more respect and class than McCain and that is another strong trait we need in our next President. It is something that has been missing for well over 8 years.

I realize those who were for McCain felt he won and vise versa. However, most polls are saying that Obama out performed, which says a lot when you consider that Foreign Affairs was supposed to be his weakness.

After the debate a dear friend of mine called me and told me they were voting for Obama and the debate had changed their mind. If he continues this pace then this country may get the change it desperately needs.

Another observation, I didn’t realize that McCain was so unpatriotic. But he is apparently Mccain is unpatriotic because he was not wearing a flag lapel pin.

Also, after the debate the Vice Presidential Nominees had very different comments about the debate. I think they said more than anything else could have. Someone needs to explain why Palin is so qualified to be a heart beat away from President who is a 72 year old cancer survivor. Please if she cannot even comment on the debate how is she expectd to be the next President. It scares the hell out of me. Even if she had a penis, I would feel this strongly about it. SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED.

Recently I was told I was ‘pretty harsh on the Republicans’ on my blog. Needless I am sure if someone is of the Republican persuasion then they might be offended by my blog.

Why am I so cranky towards Republicans? Because the Country is messed up and I am pissed off about it. The reality it is the Republicans that have been in charge for the last 8 years. It has been a Republican Administration that has practically bankrupted this Country (emotionally as well as financially). It was a Republican administration that ignored the memo that warned of Osama Bin Laden. It was a Republican Administration that took us into an unjustified war in Iraq that has drained us ( both financially and emotionally). It was a Republican administration that turned its back on New Orleans after Katrina. It was a Republican administration aided in polarizing and dividing this Country after it was more united than it could ever be in Sept 2001. It was a Republican administration that deregulated our financial system into bankruptcy. It was a Republican administration that grew the size of our government and left us with the biggest deficit in our Country’s history. They need to be accountable. There are no excuses and I have nothing to take back on any of my entries. I don’t understand how ANYONE can defend these Republican actions. I would love it if someone would give me substantial evidence to the contrary. But Bush will go down as one of the absolute worse presidents in history. With all this there are still people out there (19%) that support this man for some reason. Even worse; half the country is willing to vote for more of the same with Johah McPalin.

I am sorry if you are a Republican, because you are probably like McCain and do not want to own up to the Republican failings over that last 8 years. You want to hold on desperately to the Republican beliefs of the past. You might try using tactics of attacking the other party on the exact same issues your party has been guilty of. Heck you may even cling to the idea of ‘CHANGE with McCain’. Even though the idea of change is very new to McCain and is probably a gimmick as far as he is concerned.

Just please don’t accuse me of being to harsh on Republican: ask yourself why you are not being harsher. Just look at the country and move to the next step of grief. Denial isn’t working any more. Soon you may be to the angry step that I am stuck in.

UPDATE: 10 days after the financial crisis began and 2 days before the first Presidential debate, John McCain does not want to debate he wants to go back to Washington and fix the problem - the same problem that he denied 8 days ago. 8 days ago the fundamentals of our economy were strong and now it is so desperate that he needs to focus. Senator why did it take 10 days for you to come to this decision. Why is it only after your numbers started to take a dive did you decide it was a crisis that needed to be dealt with above all else.

I like the fact that Obama realizes the next President needs to be able to multi-task and focus on more than one problem.

Between Ike and Wall Street and only a little over 90 days left in the year, Bush has deregulated himself to a new legacy.

I didn’t grow up in a political family. My parents voted and they usually kept their vote to themselves. I wasn’t what you would call a ‘stanch Mormon’ so I was not brainwashed to believe that if I voted Democrat I would be excommunicated (inside joke – especially in the state of Utah; the only state that still stand by the Bush administration) and I am not Catholic so I couldn’t be denied communion for voting Democrat. But in spite of this I have always voted with the Democrat presidential candidate. I was thinking about why that was and I realized that it was Ronald Reagan during his first term that made me realize that Democrats were better for me than Republicans. You see Ronald Reagan deregulated the trucking industry and he broke up Ma Bell (the telephone company). These 2 policies had a huge impact on my family at the time. So when I hit 18 I began voting Democrat.

Now after Wall Street is crashing and 700 billion dollars were lost today alone. Regulation is needed to a degree to protect those who cannot protect themselves. The Republican Administration has taken this Country down a road that has left us a broke, corrupt and weak nation. They have done more damage to us with their deregulation, greed and corruption than any extremist could ever hope for.

America there is hope if we vote for Barack Obama. He is the only candidate that has put forward a true plan. He has not flipped flopped on his economic positions. McCain and his campaign demonstrated how out of touch they are when earlier this month they claimed

This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

I only hope Obama is right and Americans are smarter than that.

McCain proved he was a liar and a cheat when he left his first family for an heiress.  But he believes that Americans are so stupid that they will just listen to his POW stories and not hear his many lies.    CNN points out the many lies from McCains side.  This should show Americans and the world what type of character both canidtate - McCain and Palin have.  I guess when you don’t have anything else to offer you can just try to lie you way out of it.

Obama wants to teach sex to kindergarteners? Lie.

Palin opposed the Bridge to Nowhere? Lie.

Palin hasn’t taken earmarks as Governor? Lie.

Alaska produces 20% of America’s energy? Lie.

Palin visited Iraq and Ireland? Lie.

 THE ECONOMY IS FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND?  LIE.

I realize that freedom isn’t free. That freedom does come with a price. First there is the price with pay when our soldiers lose their lives while fight for our freedom. There is also the price of taxes, which really are necessary and should be looked at as our privilege. But our intelligence is not a price that I am willing to pay. The fact that McCain/Palin can get away with the lies they are telling because Americans are too lazy and too STUPID to do their homework. We are becoming a nation of G.E.D, NASCAR, and beer drinking idiots who would rather have an under-qualified and undereducated Vice President and a borderline dementia President. Because she is pretty and 40 years ago he was a prisoner of war. It drives me insane that more Americans do not stand up and cry foul on the bullshit that the McCain campaign is pulling. Then he is trying to push the blame back on Obama because he would not travel around the country with McCain for town hall meetings. The media really does need to grow a pair of balls and start reporting facts – instead of reporting their opinions.

I guess that is why I turn so much to political satire- it helps keep me sane.

Take a few minutes and laugh:

Well, the Republican smear machine is at it again. Now they have taken a quote from Barack Obama out of context and are trying to claim sexism: even though McCain used the exact same expression towards Hilary Clinton’s health plan. They have put out another ad that is filled with innuendos and lies.

The actual quote was:

“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”
With a laugh, he added: “You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”

However, the Republicans are crying sexism – even though they do not support equal pay for equal work – when they have used this term many times before…

There are many examples that can be given. This is a phrase that is commonly used by Republicans, leaders and John McCain. Torie Clark – John McCains press secretary – wrote a book with the name Lipstick On A Pig. She writes:

Spin is becoming increasingly vulnerable as information sources are proliferated. Spin is simply no longer viable or to put it another way: You can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig.

Torie Clark is teaching people to use the phrase. She says it is a standard usage phrase for cutting through spin. Exactly the way that Barack Obama used this phrase.

America needs to wipe of the lipstick and cut through the spin. Do not let the Republicans’ win this attack of distractions to take away from the real issues.

I actually feel sorry for this woman, because she is being used by the Neocons and being foreced to sell her soul in the meantime.  She keeps lying about the Bridge to Nowhere and as she claims she told the congress thanks but no thanks, she leaves out the fact that she STILL TOOK THE 230 MILLION DOLLARS.  It is still an earmark.   She is doing nothing to further the cause for women’s rights.  Neocons understand the stupidy of the American people.  Hell they would probably buy some ocean front property in Salt Lake City.   The Neocons know this and they are using to their benefit.  The sad thing is that if McCain becomes President, Palin will be taking a back seat because his ego will not  let her keep the spotlight once he is elected.

 Pretty Scary thought.  Thanks for the heads up CLERK@the jerk store