Why I Won't Be Voting for John McCain, Part 2

Poor John McCain. He either bumped his head or had his brain sucked out with a straw because nothing George Bush has done as president is worth continuing. Today he releases pounds upon pounds of his medical records today when most people have gone on vacation for Memorial Day. I'm not interested.

By all accounts, this hasn't been a good week for him. He's had to repudiate John Hagee, the fundamentalist preacher who was bound to slip up and say something stupid sooner or later. I'm sorry but fundamentalists and zealots of any ilk are very dangerous. Actually Hagee has been saying stupid things all along but in a desperate but unnecessary attempt to woo the religious conservatives, McCain hooked his wagon to Hagee's star. So God created Hitler and the Holocaust to hasten the creation of Israel!? He should have seen this coming, but desperation can put you in all kinds of embarrassing predicaments, just ask Hillary Clinton.

Now that's some scary crap but what's even scarier is that McCain intends to continue many of the policies that make President George Bush, the most unpopular president of my time. Bush is only unpopular with us poor working stiffs who pay $3.99 a gallon for gas and are forced to make hard decisions about what we buy at the grocery store each week. If McCain is trying to win my vote, he's going to have to do much better because right now, I'm not impressed.

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Beauty and the Beast

Photo: Queerty.com

I'm posting an interesting take on that ridiculous Vogue cover of NBA Superstar LeBron James and Giselle Bundchen. Vogue is supposed to be high-fashion but this one misses the mark. If David Beckham were posing alongside Bundchen, he's be wearing a suit. I must ask, why didn't LeBron wear a suit? Are black men capable of being depicted as anything but bruts and thugs?

Evidently not, it's 2008 and it's still about race and stereotypes even on the cover of Vogue.

Dick Cheney, the Arrogant

Vice President, his lordliness Dick Cheney emerged from his secret bunker last week to do some bitch-slapping. He made visits to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel spewing his 'it's my way or the highway' diplomacy to all of our minions. His timing was perfect; we're going into year six in Iraq, our 4,000th soldier has been killed in combat and more than 80,000 others have died there.

In spite of the fact that we live in a democracy, he has done everything in his power to circumvent the checks and balances that are supposed to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful. He doesn't care that the majority of Americans think the war in Iraq was a mistake.



If you're not outraged about this, you should be. Cheney's detached arrogance is beyond comprehension. Am I the only one who can't wait for him, George W. Bush and the rest of their administration to get the hell out of office?

Obama and Osama?

I belong to what I thought was a progressive group of people who are interested in social and economic justice as well as the environment. We share ideas about business and eco-friendly ways to make money while also making the world a better place. One of the members of our group sent a very disturbing email last week. The person was either jerking everyone's chain or was really serious. This person was serious.

After the message was sent, many of our members jumped on this person's case and an apology was issued.
As scary as the message sounds, it appears that this person is not the only one who espouses such disturbing beliefs. The good thing about being an American is having freedom of speech and being able to express opinions that are not always part of the mainstream. Here's what they email said:

How can any American vote for a Muslim to be President of our country? It was Muslims who knocked down the twin towers, killing thousands of innocent Americans. It is Muslims who are killing thousands of our soldiers fighting the war on terror. It is Muslims who do and say NOTHING against the Muslim attacks on innocent Americans. It is Barack Obama who is against the war on terror. Whether or not he currently (or openly) practices the Muslim religion, he has a Muslim name and Muslim roots. He has stated that our troops should be out of Iraq by March 31, 2009 (within a couple of months of taking office). He is Al Qaida's inside man, or at least the answer to their prayers. He also wants to give citizenship to every illegal person in this country and then give them free healthcare and jobs and money to start their own businesses at our expense.

NAME REMOVED

Red-Blooded American

Obama and Richardson in 2008

One of my fantasy political tickets came one step closer to fruition today when New Mexico governor Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama for president. I could have done a back handspring (in my virtual imagination, of course). I liked Richardson when he was a Democratic candidate, being being smart and one of the most qualified of all the Democratic presidential candidates, he had the most reasonable policies on Iraq and healthcare. His campaign just didn't catch fire. I'm still hopeful about 2012.

A Barack Obama-Bill Richardson ticket would be 'da bomb. Our old tired political system needs some fresh air and it isn't going to come with Hillary Clinton or John McCain. It's time to do more than race-bait and mud-sling which is about all the Clinton's are qualified to do at this point. Another four years of any Clinton would be unbearable.

John McCain is just as scary; any politician who mistakenly asserts that Iran (predominantly Shi'a Muslim) is supplying al-Qaeda, the Sunni Muslim terrorist group, with military training and weapons in Iraq is dangerous and irresponsible.

Like his Republican predecessor, McCain is destined keep the U.S. at the top of the world's most hated list. Besides, McCain's 'fill-in-the-blank' diplomacy will just be a contination of the fear mongering that has been a hallmark of the elitist, arrogant Bush-Cheney administration.