Politics

As a supporter of the Libertarian and Constitutionalist parties, obviously I’m disappointed that 66,339,700 Americans have no respect for personal liberty and the freedoms this country was founded on (they’ll miss them when there gone.) But I don’t blame the American public solely, I have many reserves about the way this election season was run by the media and of course ACORN. I sometimes think this election was about the media showing who has the real power and influence (they’re only hurting their credibility.)

However, no matter how discouraged I feel… this letter to the editor always seems to make me feel better that I was not part of the abysmal Obama clicke. It makes me feel good that I choose to be a supporter of the America our founders believed in, not an America that is slowly turing into what spawned it’s creation & another England/Europe.

Letter to the editor, from American Thinker: Why I’m Voting Democrat. Enjoy.

Hey! Thank-you to the 179,000 Constitutionalist Party supporters and the 481,858 supporters of the Libertarian Party. Bob Barr might have only achieved 1% of the vote, but records show that membership to the party was up by 10% this year.

Congratulations America! You have just elected a fantastic political speaker and public manipulator who unfortunatly does not agree with our founding fathers, whom which I’m sure are turning in their graves right now.

You have voted for change! And when that socialistic change trickles down in the form of higher taxes, more national debt, less personal liberty, less decisions when he signs a bill as “present” and a screwed up health care system like England’s… I can atleast say, you voted for it America.

As for me? Luckily I can hide much of my income under the table to prevent my wealth from being distributed.

On the positive side, I’m happy America was able to vote a black man into office, just a shame it was this one. Adam said it well. 

On the brighter side, Atleast this guy will probably keep his pants on in the oval office. Bush had no chance of getting any like his predecessor.

Forward 1: So die-hard democrat fans, I’m sorry… you will probably disagree with everything I say. I am not here to change your mind, because the universe sure as hell knows that aint possible.

Forward 2: Most of you who know me, know I am a Libertarian. I vote Libertarian. I breath Libertarian. If I ever find a female Ron Paul, I’ll be marrying her tomorrow. Normally I just sit back and laugh and move on knowing that I am doing the best I can with support to the Libertarian party. This time though… I’m actually really nervous for this country if a certain candidate gets elected.

Having said that, I will say this. Since about mid-summer when I realized that Obama was going to be a presidential candidate I started looking deep into his records, past, viewpoints and thoughts. What I found is that I believe him to be very anti-American. In contrast though, I wouldn’t be worried if it was Biden or Hillary being president. It is solely Obama I am against… and don’t anyone mention race, because we all know its not that.

I find Obama to be anti-American who just smooth talks people into hearing what they want to hear. Most people just say “Amen brother” and agree to vote for him. Then there are people like me who say… uhh WHAT!? Because we look at the fine print and meaning.

We question the basic items about the man:

• Why was it like pulling teeth to get him to wear the American Flag?
• Why does he flick off his opponents? (He did it to Hillary & now McCain.)
• Why is he afraid to release his original birth certificate?
• Doesn’t it bother anyone that he votes, “Present.” Seriously, a leader makes decisions.
• After listening to 20 years of hate spewed by his reverend… why did he now decide to break ties with him? Listening to so much hate sinks in over time… and he only broke ties with him because of his candidacy.
• Am I the only one terrified over his economic ideas? Bankrupt the coal industry? “Spread the wealth?” Tax me more? I have a hard enough time staying afloat, and you want to tax me more?!
• Why did he kick every member of the press who did not endorse him off the plane? It takes an endorsement to be part the O-press corps? Because endorsements mean non-biased reporting.
• I love your unrealistic and bankrupting propositions that seem to have spun off the TV series, The West Wing. Seriously, good idea… just need a realistic approach to implementing them, to which he forgot to mention.
• - An energy plan that is essentially rabbit power?

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Hope everyone has a great voting day! I’m gonna leave you with two final thoughts.

“People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people” - bigger the government and more control placed on a society = less freedom = more fear. Who is the one proposing those controlling socialist ideals?

One of the great leaders this country has had is Teddy Roosevelt. (Source) “Roosevelt had no tolerance for laziness, indecision, cowardice, or those who prefer to sit life out on the sidelines and criticize others. He respected those who made the effort to get in the arena.”  - I can tell you one candidate who has not gotten in the arena and has a habit of cowardice and indecision… Mr. I’m voting “Present.”

With that, I conclude the 2008 pre-election political posts!

I asked one of my female friends the other day who was bleeding Obama-mania and supporting Obama nation why she was doing that. Her response, “I’m very liberal at heart…”

My response to her was, “Liberal at heart and liberal in politics are two different things, because people who are truely liberal often disagree with the democrats for their historically ‘controlling’ & big government policies.”

Moral of it all: Just because it’s cool to be “very liberal” when your in the famous 20’s doesn’t mean its necessarily the right thing.

After all… what are all we bloggers going to do when Obama taxes the electric companies to bankruptcy and we have no more power? If wind, solar and other alternatives were available, we’d be already using them… trust me. Someone is just wanting to start a fortune 500 that pulls clean electricity out of the sky! The overhead costs would be significantly lower than a traditional power plant. If the technology was there, we’d be using it.

Despite the belief, I’m a firm believer if you are interested in voting for the lesser of the evil - it is John McCain. He seriously is quite different than Bush (despite what Obama’s ads say) and he would have a strong administration surrounding him. But I’ll have more on “the lesser of evil” in a post I hope to publish tomorrow, I just have to finish refining it.

Ofcourse we all know, I’m a bleeding Libertarian.  ”More Freedom, Less Government = Less Taxes“

A picture on the drudgereport this morning features the best representation of how I feel about the debates discussion tonight and the candidates speaking.

Bobbleheads.

Seriously, a debate is between several people - a discussion is between two people. The American people have a right to hear voices and opinions from other than two first class clown bobbleheads. There is no lesser of the evil, they are both pathetic excuses for candidates out of the entire American population. The presidential election debate should be between candidates from the Green, Libertarian, Conservative, Democratic, Republican Constitution, American Independent, Socialism, Reform, and Prohibition. That my friends would be a debate!

I could envision it now, set up the debate similarly to the House of Commons in British Parliament with the candidates at the floor. When a question is asked they jump up and answer it while fielding opposition with other candidates jumping in and out. Oh man… that would be a debate!! We could see true debating from candidates, hear several view points, see how strong each candidate is while being blindsided with opposition and tough questions. Yes, that would be a debate worth seeing!

There wouldn’t be rehearsed speeches and candidates making pleas to the American people. I’m tired of the sad sob stories, I want to see debates, anger, yelling, politics!, real answers and all candidates tested! And if a candidate didn’t speak up, then thats their own fault.

But sigh, instead we have mundane debate between two bobbleheads who despite their pleas are nothing more than traditional washington giving a scripted story on tv tonight.

So much for a real debate, a true debate.

Politics is just another phrase for bad girl drama… except it’s gender neutral and slightly celebrity-ish. It’s all about talking behind backs and being two faced, pointing the finger and claiming no responsibility, trying to stay off of CNN when you do something wrong and on when you think your right and ofcourse taking back handed deals.

My personal opinion to the solution of this economic crisis is very simple. If these companies need money, then they should go after everyone they gave multi million dollar bonus for doing such a good job of running the company into the ground and get those bonus back. Problem solved.

Now this is what kills me, see… these companies have been having problems for some time now and it’s been well known and documented. Yet, these financial companies kept giving out money and people kept reciveing as typical greedy politicians and executives do.

Looking at the list on public record:

Okay. So those are all democratic party leaders. Note that the list is not party specific, the republicans start showing up at number five… McCain is not even on that list of the top 25.

Now there is Hilliarly Clinton… okay, okay… we can just assume she’s going to pull the, “I did not know” card - it’s a Clinton style and tradition. But Obama? Come on… I thought you were representing change!!? I’m starting to think that the only change you’re representing is that of your color. Because I want to believe you are full of change, I want to believe you are full of hope… but everywhere I look your just a same damn old greedy politician. The more I dig for information on you, the less hope I see. I’m sorry… I’d like to believe a candidate is all about change and hope, but how can I put my hope into someone knowingly takes campaign contributions from a failing company that is going to ask for tax payer money? It’s like having my tax dollars feed your party. Well I’m a Libertarian and I don’t want my money in your pocket.

If you, Mr. Obama, were all about change and hope… you’d be giving back your campaign contributions AND asking for all those people who had multi-million dollar bonus to hand back the money the received. That is the real bailout solution.

The other real solution is bankruptcy, not bailouts.
Here is an excerpt from an excellent article on CNN - one of the few they have:

“The current mess would never have occurred in the absence of ill-conceived federal policies. The federal government chartered Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970; these two mortgage lending institutions are at the center of the crisis. The government implicitly promised these institutions that it would make good on their debts, so Fannie and Freddie took on huge amounts of excessive risk.

Worse, beginning in 1977 and even more in the 1990s and the early part of this century, Congress pushed mortgage lenders and Fannie/Freddie to expand subprime lending. The industry was happy to oblige, given the implicit promise of federal backing, and subprime lending soared.

This subprime lending was more than a minor relaxation of existing credit guidelines. This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle.”

I share this message to the media with you today not for political reasons, but because there is some serious media bias going on.

I went to broadcasting school in the US and England. Enforced heavily in both schools are journalistic values. But where are those values now? Why are journalists and news organizations not following them? Where is the watch dog?

I have lost respect for the US media. The press should not “endorse” a candidate. I can give a negative 2 cents about whose endorsing who - I’m not paying to hear, read or see your endorsements. All I want is the news and to have it be unbiased. Toss in some unbiased political coverage from all the political parties and you can really shine. I’m also not interested in your flagrant stories, features or coverage. Is that really a hard thing to do when the net is full of free blogs for you to share your personal views? Come on reporters.

So what does this all come down to? That I am hurt. As a broadcaster, I am now just labeled as part of the clan which broadcasts their bias. I take offense to that because I am very careful not to! It’s not the time or place for my bias when I’m a reporter or broadcaster. The time and place is in a bar, around the dinner table and on my blog with hosting paid for by me, not a company. 

I’m sorry if this seems to be another political post, it’s not intended to be. It is meant for me to vent my frustration at the mainstream media in America. (Politically, America has over 301,139,947 people… and this is what we’re left to choose from? I should at-least be entitled to fair representations of all the candidates I’m not thrilled about.)

Thank-you American Media, if I had the time I’d draw a big eff you sign.

PS: Isn’t it sad that an organization has formed to tell and watch the news of the news? Check out their weekly podcast, it’s pretty sweet.

I swear my landlords super loud phone rings at 8:37 every weekday morning. It beats any alarm I have.

It’s as though he has a “Red” presidential phone or something.

Screw those political adds getting a 3AM phone call… it’s my landlord, and it’s 8:37AM.

I don’t understand why the Democrats are constantly blaming Bush for the mortgage crisis which is now affecting wall street. The problem with blaming Bush is he doesn’t control investors.

I HATE it when people blame Bush for problems he has no control over. What do you expect… him to think and control the investors like puppets? If he is thinking and controlling investors, how is it a free society then? And if you want him to control the investors, would that be American? He has no control over peoples greed on wall street… so why do the Democrats keep blaming him? I don’t know! I hate the blame game.

Here is a fantastic NPR story about the situation: audio clip from morning addition 19 September 2008.

From the feature, there are clearly other companies and investors that should be held responsible.

There are several things that I don’t agree with Bush about, but I don’t go around blaming him for things that are out of his control. I find this election season really annoying because the Democrats are blaming Bush for every known problem in the world and trying to relate it to John McCain. I believe there are some issues it’s fair to point the finger… but for the most part, alot of the finger pointing is unmerited. Sure, John McCain is not the saviour, but Obama Mania Barack is no where a lesser of the evil either.

I guess this is why I am neither Democrat or Republican, both parties worry more about blaming, finger pointing, gaining control and taking away liberty. My political views are summed up by the badge on the left.

This country does not need an Obama-mania to change. This country does not need a decorated war veteran for change to happen. This country doesn’t even need an isolationist in power. This country needs to go back to it’s roots.

This country needs it’s citizen’s to stand up take some personal responsibility! We often worry to much about creating laws and passing restrictions rather than taking responsibility for our actions. It’s as if we’d rather point the finger and blame adamant objects before taking some responsibility.

You want the right to own a gun? Then take responsibility for it! Limiting guns and creating laws against them will not fix gun crimes. Stop trying to blame guns for the crimes… blame the criminals.

You want an educational system that works? Take action rather than blame.

You want the right to eat and chose your own health care? Then take responsibility for your health and start working out. Here is a great article that was in last week’s paper. Perhaps when manufacturing and labor jobs start etching their way back into our society, we will be come more fit as a nation.

This country was started because of people taking responsibility, I’d sure hate for that responsibility to go away.

Check out the article: It’s not the food, it’s the exercise (or lack thereof)

“The dietary difference between generations isn’t significant enough to explain the difference in weight. However, the change in activity is.”