Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has done the impossible. At least she has done something that I thought was impossible only two weeks ago. By John McCain putting her on his ticket instead of someone truly qualified, I have decided that I will be voting for Barack Obama for President.
Don’t get me wrong. I still don’t think he’s the “perfec”t candidate. I’m still bugged about the whole Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy. I’m still a little creeped out by the extreme, almost fanatic adoration he receives from some people.
Who knows, maybe voting for Barack Obama will turn out to be a mistake. Then again, maybe it wont. Maybe electing Barack Obama as our President will help repair some of the damage the Bush administration has done to our country and to the world. Maybe it will send a message to the world that we want things to be different.
Electing John McCain wont do that. In fact, I’m afraid it would send a whole different message.
I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain. All that changed when he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. By choosing someone with no experience and no qualifications to be his Vice President, McCain showed me that he lacks the judgment needed to be President. I thought good judgment was something McCain had going for him.
Obviously I was wrong.
Brendan
/ September 6, 2008What a relief to read. Like Obama or not… this would be your alternative. Always enjoy your posts, keep on bloggin’.
Rico
/ September 6, 2008SO, let me get this straight… You think that Sarah Palin is less qualified to be VP, but you think that Barack Obama is qualified to be President? Wow, you should really do a little research before you make a post. I mean you really look like an idiot. Let me help you out, Obama has never had executive experience, he was a community organizer before being elected to the Senate where he only spent a little over a year before he started campaigning for President. Sarah Palin was a two term Mayor and is currently Governor of Alaska. Look at facts, and don’t be misled by the bullshit you here in the main stream media. Find the facts for yourself.
Bentcorner
/ September 6, 2008Rico wrote:
OK, I will.
And yes, I do think Obama is more qualified then Palin. Then again, so does everyone else that has bothered to look at their qualifications. Obama graduated from Columbia with a B.A. in political science. He worked in NYC and then moved to Chicago to take a position as a director for Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church based organization that helped people with job training and tenant’s rights. In 1988, Obama went to Harvard Law School. During his second year, he become the president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduating Harvard Law School, he returned to Chicago. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. He was also a civil rights lawyer for a law firm for close to nine years. In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois Senate. He served as a state senator until 2004 when he became a U.S. senator.
Did Palin ever teach constitutional law? In fact, does she even have a law degree? I don’t think it’s too fair to compare Palin to Obama until she has a chance to do more things.
Jesse Jace
/ September 7, 2008Rico, when someone like you (who knows he’s going to vote for McCain no matter what happens, no matter what damning evidence is presented, no matter what idiot he chooses as his VP) says, “I’m going to vote for McCain,” it means very little.
When someone like me (who has liked Obama from the start and can’t easily be convinced that there is a viable alternative to voting for him) says, “I’m going to vote for Obama,” it means very little.
But when someone like Rick, who has taken all factors into account over a period of months, weighed them carefully and, after much consideration, says, “I’m going to vote for Obama,” it means a lot more. It means voters who educate themselves before committing to a candidate are finding out, through said self-education, that John McCain is a walking disaster.
danny
/ September 7, 2008One qualification that Sarah Palin has is that she is a gifted speaker. She is unquestionable one of the best speakers of either party. She may even be a better orator than Obama himself.
You should not downplay that qualification. Earlier, when Hillary said that Obama was all words and no substance, Obama put us all straight. Remember his famous “just words” speech? Of course it turned out that the “just words” speech were actually someone else’s words. No matter. Obama says that great oratory is an important qualification to be president. Palin proved she has that qualification.
During Obama’s stint as a law professor and as state legislator and as a senator, it does not seem to me that he accomplished very much. He wrote no journal articles (as a professor) and he does not seem to have authored very many laws. He did vote present 160 times.
Conversely, Sarah Palin, seems to have been an overachiever. She did curb government spending. She did blow the whistle on corruption. She did extract the State of Alaska from a bad agreement with the oil companies, and she did negotiate a more favorable contract to build a natural gas pipeline through Canada (a foreign country) to the United States. Her approval rating fluctuates between 80 to 90 percent. This is almost unheard of for any governor. Clearly, she must be doing something right.
Sarah Palin’s state provides 20 percent of our nation’s energy, and it could supply more. Thus, Sarah is an expert on energy production, which is extremely important right now. The high price of fuel is wrecking our economy and poses a security risk. Biden, who apparently cheated his way through law school, opposed the Alaskan Oil pipeline for environmental reasons. If Biden had his way, gas prices would be even higher and our economy would be in even more dire shape than it is now. I like Palin’s energy acumen much more than I like Biden’s.
For many, many reasons, McCain made a brilliant choice when he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. Makes McCain an even more attractive candidate for President than he already was.
Jesse Jace
/ September 7, 2008“Her approval rating fluctuates between 80 to 90 percent.”
Then she obviously had better stay on as governor of Alaska. By exiting that bubble and dipping her toe in the pool that is White House politics, she risks a rude awakening.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Jesse,
Nice of you to be chivalrous and chauvinistic to the point that you would want to protect the fair maiden from distress. However, judging from the way Sarah combated an entrenched political machine in Alaska and won . . . Sarah is one tough bulldog (with lipstick) who really doesn’t need your protection.
Bentcorner
/ September 7, 2008@danny: Palin curbed government spending? When she took office as the mayor of tiny Wasilla, the town had a budget surplus. When she left, it had a debt of over $20 million. That works out to be over $3 grand per resident. Most of the debt stemmed from spending money on things the town didn’t need or want, things such as a new sports complex.
When it comes to blowing the whistle on corruption, how does one not find corruption in a state such as Alaska? Palin herself is currently under investigation for abusing the power of her office by getting the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. Palin says she has nothing to hide and will cooperate fully with investigators has hired lawyers who have worked to stall the investigation ever chance they get.
If McCain wanted someone with experience of being a mayor, he could have chosen Rudy Giuliani. If he wanted to someone who was once a governor, he could have chosen Mit Romney. Instead he chose someone that most Americans had never heard of before two weeks ago. That’s not a knock on Americans, they had no reason to know who she was. The woman is truly unremarkable in every way.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Jesse
Yeah yeah, Palin during Palin’s administration, the indebtedness of Wasilla did increase. But the residents of Wasilla are not mad. Why? Because the money was not spent wastefully. Much of the leveraged money went to buy a sports facility . . . a facility that will add to Wasilla’s prestige and economy. The debt caused by the facility will be overshadowed by the increase in revenue it will bring.
As governor of the state of Alaska there can be no doubt that she did cut billions of dollars in wasteful spending, and she did extract Alaska from sweetheart deals with oil companies which also saved Alaska billions. Unlike the previous governor she provided Alaska with a budget surplus, which she passed on to the people of Alaska.
Sarah MAY have questioned the qualifications of a police officer whom she believed was physically and verbally abusive to her sister and her family. If this is the best example you can provide of Palin’s POSSIBLE corruption in what you say is an extremely corrupt state, she must be squeaky clean.
Your say that Palin’s whistle blowing is of no significance because there was so much corruption in the state. That statement is silly on its face. When corruption is an anomaly and not ingrained in the political landscape . . . that’s when whistle blowing is easy. When corruption is widespread and entrenched, that is when whistle blowing is difficult and risky. It speaks volumes about Palin’s courage and skill that she combated a long-standing, entrenched corrupt political machine and won.
Palin is a gifted public speaker, an outside-the-beltway “skilled politician” (Obama’s words) who can help McCain lead the way towards reform and energy independence. None of the other people that you mentioned have those qualifications.
For an excellent video recounting Palin’s remarkable achievements go to this URL: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/06/palin-inexperienced-not-really/
Jesse, in your last post, you must have been really confused. Obama’s career has been unremarkable. Palin’s career has been beyond remarkable. Her success has been truly stellar.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Sorry, in my last post I should have addressed Bentcorner and not Jesse.
Bentcorner
/ September 7, 2008@Danny: You got your story mixed up about firing the police chief. She did that when she was the mayor and it had nothing to do with her brother-in-law. She fired him because he “looked” intimidating. What she is under investigation for now is firing former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan after he refused to fire her brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, as a state trooper. Even though she said she would cooperate with the ethics investigation, she has since hired lawyers who are now trying to stall the investigation.
And your point about me being “confused” might have a lot more merit if you could keep track of who exactly said what with in this thread.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Brentconrner,
Your statement about the state trooper only underlies my point. She wasn’t concerned about a government employee with a desk job. She was concerned about a state trooper who she believed had exhibited abusive behavior towards members of her family. That’s is not the kind of mentality most sane people would want in a state trooper. What exactly went down between her and the commissioner is being ferreted out. However, I stand by what I said . . . If this is the best you can do, she must be squeaky clean.
That I made a mistake and corrected it has does not add or detract from the merits of my saying that you are confused. The fact that you suggests that it somehow does only illustrates how utterly confused you are!!
Bentcorner
/ September 7, 2008@Danny: Did you mean to say all that to me or Jesse? I realized you addressed it to me, but experience tells me that with you, that doesn’t mean very much.
If Palin is so “squeaky clean” as you claim, why did she hire lawyers and have them throw road blocks at her ethics investigation? That’s not something squeaky clean people do, especially when they have stated that they will cooperate with the investigation.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Bencorner,
Of course I addressed it to you. If I had not meant to, I would have corrected my mistake immediately. Are you trying to illustrate abject stupidity? If so, you are doing an excellent job!!
If you think that only the guilty need lawyers, you are not only confused, but you are hopelessly naive.
For reasons I have explained the accusation seems trivial to me. Like I said, we do not know what really went down between Palin and the commissioner. I dunno . . . worse case scenario: maybe Gov. Palin will be punished for trying to protect the public from an abusive cop (State Trooper). That would really lower my opinion of her.
Of course Obama can have an unrepentant terrorist as his BFF (Ayers), and that would do nothing to lower my opinion of him.
Yeah . . . right.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Please excuse me. I left out a “t” in your name. That was a typo. Should have typed Bentcorner. Too bad there is not a edit function available. Sometimes I do make typographical mistakes.
I am sure that you will want to make big issue out of it since you seem to like “straining at gnats while swallowing camels.”
Schooly
/ September 7, 2008Danny, you’re an asshole.
Danny
/ September 7, 2008Schooly,
When you have nothing thoughtful to say, call names. Brilliant.
Bentcorner
/ September 8, 2008@Danny: Maybe you shouldn’t be calling anyone else stupid when you can’t seem to figure out how to master the “reply” button. Instead, you type your comments out to Jesse, “Bencorner”, or “Brentconrner” when you mean to direct them to me.
My point about Palin lawyering up is not that only the guilty need lawyers. She said she would fully cooperate with the investigation. She then hired lawyers to stall the investigation.
Danny
/ September 8, 2008Bentcorner,
I didn’t call you stupid. I said that you said a stupid thing; that you illustrated stupidity with your comments. There is a difference.
Based on your tendency to strain at gnats (while swallowing camels), I also predicted that you would (stupidly) make a big issue out of my typo, which I had corrected. Thanks for proving me right on both counts.
As I already mentioned to you, the whole flap over what she might have said to the commissioner is a triviality. The commissioner serves at her pleasure. The root of her concern was that an abusive man with anger management problems would be allowed to be a state trooper; that he would be allowed to represent the state and to arrest people. This is just a non-issue that is only of concern to people who like to strain gnats.
On the other hand, I don’t think that enough has been said about Obama’s relationship to Ayers. Ayers is a unrepentant terrorist who tried to bomb some of the very places that the 9 11 terrorists succeeded in bombing. I want our next president to be someone who stands up to terrorists; not befriend them.
I much prefer Palin over Obama. One reason is: unlike you, I don’t enjoy getting excited over trivialities while ignoring other things that are deadly serious. I don’t enjoy straining at gnats while swallowing camels.
Bentcorner
/ September 8, 2008@Danny:
Not to me there’s not. You might mince words and pretend that saying someone “illustrates abject stupidity” is not the same thing as calling someone stupid. It just makes you sound like a pussy, especially considering you hide behind an alias.
I on the other hand have no problem calling you an idiot. Not only because of the idiotic things you write in your comments, but because you can’t even keep straight who you are replying to.
Danny
/ September 8, 2008Bentcorner,
The fact that you can’t distinguish between attacking someone else’s words and attacking the person says much more about you than it does about me.
Probably you should take your own advice and quit calling other people idiots while you persist is saying incredibly stupid and idiotic things.
The fact that you can do nothing now except resort to namecalling and (kindergarten-type) insults illustrates that you idea-wise you are totally bankrupt and that facts and logic are on my side and not yours.
Continue to roll in the slime and the mud, if you must. Perhaps you will forgive me if I don’t join you.
Bentcorner
/ September 8, 2008@Danny:
So does that mean in kindergarten, the other kids called you a pussy and an idiot? I’m not calling you names. I am stating fact. You hide behind an alias while dishing out insults. You also say idiotic things. For instance, you claimed that Sarah Palin was an “expert on energy production”. You have got to be kidding. Her B.A. is in broadcast journalism and it took her six (6) schools and five (5) years to earn.
Danny
/ September 8, 2008Bentcorner,
She is the popular governor of a state that supplies 20% of the nations energy. If you watched the video I recommended, you will find people who know her saying that she is a quick study. I really don’t know of anyone who knows her who does not say that she is really smart or that she does not learn things fast.
Seems to me that she demonstrated that she is able to do a wide variety of activities well. For example: she shot the winning goal for her high school basketball team, allowing them to win the state championship. She did this while her ankle was fractured.
The fact that she attended a number of colleges does not indicate that she was bad student. It not like she flunked out of divinity school as Gore did. Nor was there an indication that she plagiarized anything in school (as Biden did). Changing schools might be indicative of the fact that she could not find a university in Alaska that satisfied her. That might be why she graduated from the University of Idaho.
Also, Palin makes a lot more sense to me than Joe Biden on energy. As I mentioned earlier, Palin negotiated (and the negotiations were difficult) a pipeline through Canada to supply us with more affordable energy. Biden earlier opposed the oil pipeline; the absence of which would make our situation today even more desperate. Next to Biden, Palin looks like a genius on energy production. So, no I was not kidding.
Do you have any solid evidence that Palin (daughter of an educator) was a poor student? If so, let’s see it.
I have no idea where you are going with your insults plus accusing-me-of-hiding-behind-an-alias routine. Are you wanting to challenge me to a duel? Again your comments seem incredibly childish and stupid.
When I was in Kindergarten, everyone, myself included, was not proficient in rational thought. Thus, to express disagreement, we were reduced to making faces and calling names. I guess that was OK for kindergarten, but most of us, as we grew older, put away childish things.
By the tenor of your recent comments, you have not convinced me that you have ever grown out of that childish stage. The fact that you are reduced to name calling and insults illustrates the fact that you are bankrupt in terms of logic and facts; that you are not able to have a rational discussion.
You are behaving like a child, and that is really the nicest thing I can say about your behavior.
Bentcorner
/ September 8, 2008@Danny:
Are you talking about the natural gas pipeline with TransCanada? The same natural gas pipeline that has yet to be built? If the pipeline is ever built, it’s not to supply “us” with affordable energy. The natural gas does not belong to “us”. It belongs to Exxon Mobil, BP and Conoco Phillips. They are the ones that own the rights to all the natural gas that on Alaska’s North Slope. These corporations control the natural gas that would be moved using the TransCanada pipeline. That’s assuming TransCanada could somehow convince the three companies to pay them to move their natural gas. Two of the three companies are already planning on building their own natural gas pipelines with private funds. You honestly think they can somehow be convinced to use TransCanada’s pipeline if they have their own? Not very likely.
Even if the pipeline is built and all three companies choose to pay TransCanada to transport their gas, there is nothing stopping them from selling the natural gas to the highest bidder. Energy is traded on the world market.
Bentcorner
/ September 8, 2008@Danny:
Because you insult people while hiding behind a fake name. For instance, when you said that Jesse was chauvinistic even though nothing he said was even slightly chauvinistic, you did so while hiding behind the fake, generic name of “danny”. It would be one thing for you to insult someone else if you had the courage to do it without the aid of an alias. Jesse posts here without hiding his identity. I post here without hiding my identity.
You don’t.
Danny
/ September 8, 2008Bentcorner,
You are talking to a straw man that you have created. No one said that the gas will belong to us. The oil that is presently flowing in the Alaskan pipeline does not belong to us either, but it does exert a downward pressure on the price of oil/gas.
There are incentives for the oil (and its gasoline derivative) to be sold in the United States. These incentives include lessened transportation costs and the lack of duties on products Alaskan’s sell in the U.S.
However, even in the case of oil that is shipped abroad, that oil still exerts a downward pressure on price. That’s so because the supply of oil on a world wide level is increased. Perhaps you are familiar with the law of supply and demand. It works, you know. Also, the oil shipped abroad lessens our imports relative to exports and somewhat heals our imbalance of trade. The more the balance of trade is equalized the stronger the dollar is likely to become. A stronger dollar means that we will pay less for all imported items, including gas.
I am sure that the same dynamics will be in place for natural gas. Thus, what Palin has achieved (getting the project started) will have the effect of making energy more affordable.
With regard to Palin’s contributions to the the pipeline: To begin with, she did not oppose building it for environmental reasons. This already puts her head and shoulders above Biden who did vote against approving the oil pipeline because it would hurt the caribou and . . . I guess the polar bears.
Unlike the previous governor, she did not try to make a sweetheart deal with the oil companies behind closed doors; a deal that would have cost more state money and a significant loss in tax revenues (from the oil companies). Under Palin’s regime everything was transparent. She had the legislature set up criteria for state support for a pipeline and then she opened the project competitive bidding. By that method, Alaska was able to obtain a much more favorable contract for the project.
If the oil companies want to build their own pipelines (as you suggested) God bless them. That would save the state of Alaska even more money, and it would bring even more natural gas to the market (from multiple pipelines). This dynamic would exert even more downward pressure on the price of natural gas. And, Sarah would appear even more sagacious the art of negotiating energy delivery.
Once again, (referring to one of your earlier posts) I wasn’t kidding
Danny
/ September 8, 2008Bentcorner,
I find your comments in post 25 to be delusional and not much in touch with reality.
First, get it through your head that I NEVER INSULTED JESSE ONCE. Nor have I never called him a name, NOT ONCE. Please quit trying to project your own bad behavior onto others.
Attacking a person’s words is NOT THE SAME THING as attacking the person. If (note I did say if) you truly lack the intelligence to see that this, I feel sorry for you, but what I said is true nonetheless.
Einstein was an intelligent man, but I am sure that he occasionally said some stupid things. Nash. the subject of the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND was also a genius, but that did not prevent him from saying some really stupid and crazy things. Saying that he did and said some things that are stupid is not the same a saying that Nash, the author of game theory, is a stupid person. Neither is saying that Jesse made a chauvinistic comment is the same thing as calling him a chauvinist.
Actually I have no idea whether Jesse is himself a chauvinist, but you are wrong when you say that he did not say anything that was even slightly chauvinistic.
His argument was the Sarah Palin is some sort of princess who achieved the success that she did (against all odds) without much trouble or effort. As he put, she “lives in a bubble” and she would wilt in the harsh reality that is Washington, D.C..
He does not take into account this is a strong women with a strong will. This barracuda was able to sink a winning basket when her ankle was broken, for Gawd’s sake. In achieving her success, she had to fight a long and hard battle against leaders of her own party and against a corrupt political machine that held sway in Alaska.
This lady is no princess living in a bubble, and yes Jesse’s comments were at least slightly chauvinistic.
As I have pointed out, your comments about my name are stupid. To begin, how do you know that Danny is not my real name? What other information do you feel that you must know about me to satisfy your irrational curiosity? -my last name? -my street address? -my phone number? Do you want my social security number and my credit card numbers as well?
What is it to you? Neither of us have plans to see one another. Tell you what. I am happy to give you information concerning my identity on a need-to-know basis.
So far, I can’t see that you really have a need to know very much.
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008@Danny:
Nothing we do exerts a downward pressure on the price of oil. OPEC controls the oil market. If we drastically increased the amount of drilling that happened in the United States, OPEC could (and would) just decrease the amount of production to match any increase. Making it easier and cheaper for oil companies to produce oil only helps the oil companies.
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008@Danny:
When did Jesse ever refer to Palin as a princess? That’s something you said, not him. He never said anything about her that had anything to do with the fact that she was a woman, you did.
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008@Danny: One more thing. If you plan on leaving any more comments, keep it short and sweet. Don’t ramble on. A good rule of thumb is that if your comment is twice as long as the post you are commenting on, you are doing it wrong.
Ashlee
/ September 9, 2008I have never commented on someone’s blog, but this one makes me sad. Please know that this is coming from a lover of America and a Constitutional History buff. Obama is a well-spoken, highly educated, polished and attractive man. His community and state service are reputable. But his record and his interviews prove that he is more of a socialist than any other presidential candidate in our nation’s history. He wants the government to control (or regulate) everything – which takes your personal liberties away. There is not a single government program that he does not support. I’m not a McCain-lover. I admire his service to America (Obama doesn’t even like to acknowledge or pledge the flag of our nation). Sometimes there is such thing as the lesser of 2 evils. And, if you are a fan of your freedom, then McCain (no matter how much “experience” you think his running mate has – and I could argue your point on that as well) is the lesser of the EVIL of Socialism.
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008@Ashlee:
How about the personal liberty of choosing to not have a rapist’s baby? If McCain/Palin get their way, a woman will not be able to abort a fetus fathered by her rapist.
What government programs do you actually think ought to be abolished? Furthermore, what government programs will McCain abolish?
Danny
/ September 9, 2008Bencorner,
Sarah Palin is a woman; Jesse did say that she lives in a bubble. He also suggested that he would be too painful for her to leave her bubble and go to the harsh reality of Washington politics. He did not take into consideration that Palin could be a very tough woman with a strong will. Again, I stand by my statement that his words were at least slightly chauvinistic.
Saudia Arabia and Kuwait are a part of OPEC. Whenever we get into an oil crisis we go to our buddies to ask that they help us by increasing their oil production. Our begging might carry more weight if we were doing everything we could domestically to solve our own problems.
In any case, if we demonstrate that we are serious about becoming energy independent, that will exert a tremendous downward pressure on oil prices. Getting serious means using every means at our disposal to attack the problem, including increased drilling and the development of alternative forms of energy. Hopefully hydrogen-fueled cars may ultimately be the answer, but we are a ways from developing that technology yet.
If OPEC believes we are serious, they will be less likely horde their oil in the present; they will likely try to make as much money as possible from their oil resources before demand for oil declines. I believe that OPEC will be more likely to take our desire for energy independence more seriously if McCain/Palin are elected president rather than Obama/Biden.
I reject your characterization of my previous posts as rambling and I reject your rule of thumb. It can only take a few seconds to make a mess that you requires much time to clean up. Similarly, you have demonstrated that you can make a such mess of reality in just a few sentences; that it takes more than a few sentences to address and “clean up” the mess you have made.
If you don’t like the length of my posts, that is just too bad. As Rhett would say, “Frankly . . . I don’t give a damn!”
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008@Danny:
No, that’s not the way it works. I am the only one that writes *posts* on this blog. It’s my blog, not yours. What you and anyone else who reads this is free to do is *comment* on anything I have blogged about.
The comment section is not your blog. I’ve asked you nicely not to ramble. Any further excessive comments by you will only be deleted.
Danny
/ September 9, 2008Bentcorner,
I haven’t rambled; everything I said has been on point. Delete away, you only demonstrate your own foolishness, and the fact that your logic is so weak you have to muzzle people who disagree with you.
One other thing: You are right, Jesse never used the actually used the word princess. What he did suggest was that Palin had things easy and she lives in a bubble. He also suggested that if that bubble of protection popped, Palin would wilt.
What he said about Palin was insulting (and chauvinsitic). He did not appreciate the fact that Palin had to fight and scrap and get bloody to achieve the success that she did.
A princess is a female who assumes power without effort and who tends to live in a bubble of protection. A princess might wilt if that bubble is ever popped.
Therefore, princess is an apt image of what Jesse was describing.
Kapish?
Bentcorner
/ September 9, 2008Think again. I have close to 3,000 comments here. Hundreds of them are from people who disagreed with me about stuff. I welcome those that disagree with me. What I don’t welcome are people like you that treat a comment section as their own personal blog. I might think differently if even half of what you wrote was in fact true. Then again, maybe I wouldn’t.
That has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. That was even more idiotic then claiming that Sarah Palin is an expert on energy production.
Jesse Jace
/ September 10, 2008Danny, Champion of Womenfolk said:
“Nice of you to be chivalrous and chauvinistic to the point that you would want to protect the fair maiden from distress.”
Could you do me the favor of telling my fiancee that chivalry and chauvinism are the same thing? That would help me get out of doing a lot of household chores.
Ashlee
/ September 10, 2008Thanks for responding….and, like I said, I’m not a McCain-lover. I’ve seen him fall into the Big-Government category as well. However, he seems to be marching to a different beat these days – and that I admire.
About the abortions, I personally am a believer that life should be protected (even the life of a fetus that had no choice to be conceived or not). However, I can not say when human life actually begins. I can say that I am NOT in favor of my tax dollars going toward abortions. I believe that if a person makes the decision that an abortion is the best option then they should be able to go to a physician that can perform one. But not with my tax dollars. In the same way, why should it be that someone can CHOOSE to live an unhealthy lifestyle, eat terrible, not work out, smoke, etc and expect me to pay for the consequences of those decisions?
It’s a person’s choice to live like they want to live.
But, don’t expect society to pay for it. Obama believes society should pay for all of that. Socialism. Historically, it’s a system that has shown itself to be oppressive, extremely full of corruption (not saying that corruption doesn’t exist elsewhere), and one in which people risk their lives to try to escape.
None-the-less, America is going to get what she deserves this coming election. Unfortunately.
Keep on blogging. I enjoy reading them.
P.S. I happen to be a huge Ron Paul fan – especially when he ran as a Libertarian.