Comments Posted By Jesse di Santis
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'WE DIDN'T KNOW" WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTED EXCUSE
How interesting all this right wing blather about "liberal" and "socialist" big spending and Obama's supposed "lack of experience". What a crock. It never matters when it is a Conservative who has no experience - what experience has McCain had? A few more years in the Senate sucking up to big business and the landed gentry trying to keep their taxes down? Being a POW has nothing to do with being able to be commander and chief. Bombing and killing people from 20,000 feet is hardly real military combat experience (and he got into the academy with someone else's influence - which is a hallmark of his playboy life). Obama was one of the brightest law students of his class and passed up offers of a glitzy big money Republican-type law firms to work in a small civil rights office and worked with real people to help the poor. What has McSame ever done for anyone? Volunteer work? He can't win on his pathetic credentials so he is (which is so typical Repub) trying to win on character assassination using his twit side-kick Sarah Dubya-with-lipstick, a religious rightwing nut, to memorize & repeat slurs to frighten people. This is how Repubs always win - fear (homosexuals, liberals, socialists, pro-choice, your money is going to be spent on somebody other than big oil - oooo scarey! - ad nauseum). And as for "big spending liberals", what a tired joke that is. At least they have tried to do something for the people and the country. If something isn't perfect it can be changed. But THE BIGGEST SPENDING PRESIDENTS IN US HISTORY ARE REAGAN AND BUSH II, bar none! And in the past 60 years the most corrupt presidents and administrations have all been GOP (Greedy Old Puritans) - Nixon, Reagan, who had the most corrupt administration in history - even compared to Tricky Dick, that is until Geo. W. Bush, the Village Idiot.
And not only does McSame not have anything special to qualify him for the presidency, any more than Obama, he's shown very bad judgement by choosing a silly rightwing radical who doesn't even read newspapers and hasn't a clue what is going on in the world. Palin is an ardent member of the New Apostolic Reformation Movement which claims to have gotten her elected in Alaska, wants to take over the government so they can start war with Russia, destroy the world so their Rambo-style Christ can return and really kick some ass. They also claim to have killed Mother Theresa by their prayers because
she was evil, they want to destroy the Catholic and Mormon churches (maybe not such a bad idea if they take all the rest with them) and they are already praying for McCain's death
shortly after his election so Palin/they can take over. With McCain so old and with a history of cancer already the chance of this looney and her friends gaining the presidency is quite
a good one. Is it worth the chance? No. Oh, and one more thing, Obama is a constitutional law professor too. No small thing. He knows more about the constitution than McCain will ever know (if he even cares since he and his side-kick are bent on keeping gay and lesbian citizens from gaining equal civil and human rights in what is supposed to be a secular society).The US has already been under the rule of Conservative neo-feudal unregulated, free market capitalism for too many years and it has been a huge failure. Wealth is concentrated in a few hands, like a third world country. 1% of the population owns 60% of the wealth, poverty is growing (1 in 8 USAmericans now live in poverty), 47million working poor have no access to health care, infant mortality is the highest in the developed world, Reporters Without Borders ranks the US 52nd in the world in press freedom, the infrastructure is crumbling etc. The US is in serious decline, but the military-industrial complex and war profiteers are doing great. McCain will continue the same failed policies of concentrating wealth in the hands of a few (he's already said he is against stopping taxpayers funded corporate welfare to the fat-cat Big Oil companies. He thinks the health care system works just fine as a profit making business. He cares nothing for the ordinary people, only the rich and powerful. Sadly, the lower the educational level of voters the more likely they are to vote GOP. They're too ignorant to question the hype the GOP always puts out.
And as far as the phoney "values" the GOP always talks about - let them define them. Unfortunately, too many people think they are talking about Christian values, but anyone really looking at their record knows they are the opposite of what Jesus taught. In fact, McCain/Palin charge Obama with being a socialist because he wants to put the values of Jesus into practice - feed the hungry, clothe the poor, love your neighbor (even if he's gay), love your enemies (at least talk to them before you blow them up to benefit Exxon), judge not, let he who is without sin cast the first stone etc. These are Christian values and all the GOP "values" really come down to are: keep the rich happy, let the corrupt corporations do anything they want to, regulate people's sex lives, prevent homosexuals from having full civil rights (but take their full taxes though), bully and blackmail the whole world and kill anyone who doesn't fall into line and let US corporations rape and pillage their resources. No wonder they never want to actually define their "values". They make Socialism akin to Satanism and sadly the average USAmerican has fallen for it, when, in actuality Socialism is the political movement most akin to true Christian ideals - to create a more just and equitable society, raise up the poor, make education available to all, healthcare to everyone (it is national defense in its purest form), promote democracy - The Rights of Man. It is a noble movement, but opposes the greed of unregulated free market capitalism (and they are now proven right) and sides again with Jesus who very clearly condemned the rich and defended the poor. Just the opposite of Conservative politics. No wonder they are against Socialism. The most advanced countries in the world are based on Christian/Socialist principles - Sweden, Norway, Denmark (the happiest people on earth), Luxemburg (the highest standard of living on earth), Spain, etc. for just about all EU countries. They call it a social contract and it is more important than the USAmerican corporate business, free market capitalist contract - people first as opposed to US business and robber barons first. Having lived on both sides of the Atlantic I'll take Socialism any day for a more just society, lower crime, better arts, more livable cities, healthcare for all, lower salaries for CEOs, better mass transit, better care for the elderly and disabled, better animal protection rights, and less fear and worry - none of which is available except to the richest in USAmerica. No I'm an Ex-USAmerican and a proud and happy European now. Thank God!!!
And for those who want to equate Socialism with Stalin etc. that argument stands up as well as equating true Christianity with the Spanish Inquisition, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, snake handlers, New Apostolic Reformation (hate) Movement, Southern Baptists and all the others who march under the banner of a perverted "Christianity".
Grow up!
Comment Posted By Jesse di Santis On 1.11.2008 @ 04:59
