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On my Facebook page, I came across an audio file posted by one of my friends. It is pretty disturbing, to me, at least.
Know Your Candidate!
It’s an “on the street” kind of interview with voters in Harlem who state they are voting for Barack Obama. The disturbing part came when the reporters asked which Obama policies they agreed with – and then gave them McCain policies to choose from. None of the people in the interview said “Whoa, those aren’t Obama policies!”
Naturally, I KNOW that this audio file is comprised of carefully selected responses, and I KNOW that someone else could do the same thing with McCain supporters / policies. That’s not the point.
The point, for me is, that there are voters out there, supporting someone, without having A CLUE as to WHY. They are supporting a name, an idea, a race (black OR white.)
People, please. Educate yourselves before you pull that lever on Election Day Tuesday. Know WHY you are voting for the person you choose – don’t do it just because someone else says so, because you THINK you know the candidate’s politics, or because you get warm fuzzies when you listen to him…or because another one simply makes you angry.
Don’t listen to the pundits, listen to the candidates themselves.
Voting Booth Photo courtesy of thepodger, via Flickr / Creative Commons.
Dear Senators Obama and McCain:
I’d like to know what you, as President, are going to do about the Chinese Imports That Threaten Our Very Lives.
You know that they’ve poisoned our pets with melamine, some toothpaste has been poisoned with diethylene glycol and snuck here in the United States, and they even poisoned 50,000 of their own babies with melamine. I wrote a very disturbing blog about diethylene glycol myself.
Their food products are sneaking into Canada, and they are also getting into the United States. Carrots. I used to buy carrots to mash up as baby food for my babies. WHERE THE HECK WERE THEY GROWN? Not even fresh fruit and vegetables are safe – who knows what kind of toxic soil China grew their stinking carrots in.
What are you two clowns proposing to do about this? Anything? I’d be very surprised. Seems like American politicians have been in heat to trade with China since before Jimmy Carter.
I WANT ONE OF YOU TO STAND UP AND SAY “HEY, WE WON’T TOLERATE THIS FROM CHINA ANYMORE! NO FOOD PRODUCTS OR INGREDIENTS FOR HUMANS OR PETS WILL BE ALLOWED IN THIS COUNTRY!”
BTW – it’s not just cheapo brands that are risky – check out Cadbury Chocolate!
I was continuing a discussion online about Obama being President when someone said “We’ve had enough WAR, it’s time for a change…” or something to that effect. The idea was that Republicans are war mongers and Democrats are peace loving dudes.
With my tongue a little in cheek, I posted a simplistic response…World War 2 was entered into under a Democratic President, the Korean Conflict was entered into under a Democratic President (and ended under a Republican), Vietnam was entered into under a Democratic President (and ended under a Republican). I neglected to put the first Gulf War down though I should have but my point was – the Dems have had their fair share of entering wars and Republicans have ended them….I really don’t think party has anything to do with it.
I made a comment about the WTC being attacked under President Clinton’s watch…because as we know, most people want to blame everything that’s wrong today on President Bush.
Another person on the Obama side was frustrated because those of us who were not for Obama were not being “objective” and were “biased” and “ill informed” (see previous blog for my rant on that.) The person said “Please can we stick to serious informed dialogue?” She demanded facts with footnotes…
So I asked her if she denied anything I posted about the Presidents and war ….asked her if she denied that it was under a Dem that the WTC was attacked.
This was ignored because I was being “sarcastic” and “attacking.” (Okay.) Until today.
Someone else said they were disputing my factoid that the WTC was attacked under Clinton; it occurred in 2001, only seven years ago. Well, at least he/she has some math skills.
I guess the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center doesn’t count because “only” six people were killed. It doesn’t count because it didn’t succeed in destroying the Towers. It “only” hurt 1,000 people…
No, actually it “didn’t count” because it was forgotten. Or maybe never even known about (Not sure how old this person is….but supposedly everyone on this forum is at least 18…or should be.)
This is sad. The US targets were actually attacked several times under the Presidency of Clinton. It’s very easy to forget what led up to 9/11 and blame G.W. Bush for the entire mess, but it’s not accurate or even fair. Terror attacks have been ongoing for decades.
That there are people out there who don’t remember something as traumatic as the 1993 bombing in New York City scares me….those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it – how true it is.
If you don’t care for Obama, then you are uninformed & lack objectivity. At least, that’s what I’ve come across online.
You are only respected if you say that Obama (or whoever the current liberal darling is…past darlings no longer count) is absolutely right and exactly what our country needs.
If you point out the shortcomings of previous democrats (in an effort to show that incompetence knows no particular party) you are ridiculed as being an uninformed bumpkin.
By stating that I’m not too keen on the current Poster Child of the DNC, I am “entrenched in deeply rooted biases and prejudices.”
It’s funny – I had just stated that
I would vote for Bill Clinton
(don’t tell my husband I said that) were he able to run for President again – I prefer him over Obama AND McCain. So I don’t have any “deep rooted biases and prejudices” against dems…. Am I biased and prejudiced because I happen to be white, and Obama is not?
(I’ve stated many times that I wish David Palmer, the character on 24 created by Dennis Haysbert, could be our President. I really do not have any race issues at all with Obama.)
I don’t care if he’s black, white, young, old, or purple. I just think he plain stinks as a possible President.
And McCain ain’t much different, in my book.
I just wish people would let me have, and express this opinion, without throwing sand about being biased and ill informed and stupid and what-not. Just grow up, already. It really is okay to disagree nicely.
