My Head hurts, and November is so far away
Now that I am all grown up and I understand things better I am always concerned with the political climate of my country. I try to gather as much information as I can and make rational decisions about candidates and issues I feel strongly about.
Such as terrorism, the war, the economy, and the state of education in this country (someone brought up stem cell research today, and I still have no idea what that is or why it is an "issue"). I have been trying to read and watch as much as I can about these men that are in line to run country for the next fours years, but honestly I cannot feel my brain anymore.
This years election promises to be one for the ages, an incumbent who may have ruined his shot at re-election in the same manner his father did a decade ago and a challenger who can't make up his mind most of the time, and who chose a vice presidential nominee whose political career spans a monumental 6 years. However, John Edwards lack of political experience may be a huge benefit in the minds of a lot of voters.
The big issue that this whole election is about is the War in Iraq and the war on Terror. Let's be honest with each other, some people will tell you the economic situation and unemployment rate are important, but take it from a guy who lives in the South most of the uneducated people in this country care more about which set of brown people we are going to bomb next. And these people love to get out and vote, mainly because they have the time because they have no jobs.
The question remains did Iraq pose and impending threat to the safety of this country and did they have WMD's. Well therein lies the problem, it all depends on who you believe. I watched a great interview on Meet the Press with Jay Rockerfeller (D) and Grant Roberts (R)(the 2 men heading up the inquiry into the intelligence departments findings in Iraq) about how the problem with the Presidents decision to go to war was the fact that the documents he was given about WMD's were completely made up. Something like 75% of the information in them was false, now we have the source of the problem, but digging to the root is a whole different issue. Senator Kerry will tell you that Dick Cheney bullied George Tenant and other Intelligence Department officials to make sure those documents supported a war. Republicans will tell you that the President was relying on the information he was given and acting in the best interest of the people. Keep in mind folks, what I have just written is a very brief synopsis of the whole problem. Now you see why my head hurts. Then my vision is going to get more murky when I go see Farenheit 9/11 this week.
What needs to happen in this country is someone needs to step forward and address issues like education on the homefront and then these problems will begin to work themselves out. I'll make a sports analogy for everyone; If I am playing football and the other team drops back to throw a 75 yard bomb and they complete the pass way downfield and then just before the guy gets in the endzone we miss an open field tackle and some yuck from the stands yells ahh crap we can't tackle. I first address the initial problem, why did we not get pressure on the QB, what happened in our coverage breakdown, then why did we miss the tackle.
We have millions of kids going through this country with no freaking idea about anything. Stupidity lead to ignorance and ignorance leads to hate and hate has an ugly way of working itself out, with things like I dunno terrorist bombings and then wars against people in countries whom 85% of America could not identify on a map. And another things no more having fucking babies, keep your legs closed ladies and men keep your dick in your pants sometimes. We have uneducated people with no jobs having children, who are bound t be uneducated and wind up with no job and then so on. If you have a kid and you have no job, boom You the girl and the child shot dead, simple solution, I know seems a bit radical but could that make things worse?
See why my head hurts, this rant started out about the election and has morphed into a bunch of non-sense about killing people. My whole point is when I try and learn stuff about these candidates and keep a level head about things it always seems like Lucy pulls the ball away just before I kick it, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Such as terrorism, the war, the economy, and the state of education in this country (someone brought up stem cell research today, and I still have no idea what that is or why it is an "issue"). I have been trying to read and watch as much as I can about these men that are in line to run country for the next fours years, but honestly I cannot feel my brain anymore.
This years election promises to be one for the ages, an incumbent who may have ruined his shot at re-election in the same manner his father did a decade ago and a challenger who can't make up his mind most of the time, and who chose a vice presidential nominee whose political career spans a monumental 6 years. However, John Edwards lack of political experience may be a huge benefit in the minds of a lot of voters.
The big issue that this whole election is about is the War in Iraq and the war on Terror. Let's be honest with each other, some people will tell you the economic situation and unemployment rate are important, but take it from a guy who lives in the South most of the uneducated people in this country care more about which set of brown people we are going to bomb next. And these people love to get out and vote, mainly because they have the time because they have no jobs.
The question remains did Iraq pose and impending threat to the safety of this country and did they have WMD's. Well therein lies the problem, it all depends on who you believe. I watched a great interview on Meet the Press with Jay Rockerfeller (D) and Grant Roberts (R)(the 2 men heading up the inquiry into the intelligence departments findings in Iraq) about how the problem with the Presidents decision to go to war was the fact that the documents he was given about WMD's were completely made up. Something like 75% of the information in them was false, now we have the source of the problem, but digging to the root is a whole different issue. Senator Kerry will tell you that Dick Cheney bullied George Tenant and other Intelligence Department officials to make sure those documents supported a war. Republicans will tell you that the President was relying on the information he was given and acting in the best interest of the people. Keep in mind folks, what I have just written is a very brief synopsis of the whole problem. Now you see why my head hurts. Then my vision is going to get more murky when I go see Farenheit 9/11 this week.
What needs to happen in this country is someone needs to step forward and address issues like education on the homefront and then these problems will begin to work themselves out. I'll make a sports analogy for everyone; If I am playing football and the other team drops back to throw a 75 yard bomb and they complete the pass way downfield and then just before the guy gets in the endzone we miss an open field tackle and some yuck from the stands yells ahh crap we can't tackle. I first address the initial problem, why did we not get pressure on the QB, what happened in our coverage breakdown, then why did we miss the tackle.
We have millions of kids going through this country with no freaking idea about anything. Stupidity lead to ignorance and ignorance leads to hate and hate has an ugly way of working itself out, with things like I dunno terrorist bombings and then wars against people in countries whom 85% of America could not identify on a map. And another things no more having fucking babies, keep your legs closed ladies and men keep your dick in your pants sometimes. We have uneducated people with no jobs having children, who are bound t be uneducated and wind up with no job and then so on. If you have a kid and you have no job, boom You the girl and the child shot dead, simple solution, I know seems a bit radical but could that make things worse?
See why my head hurts, this rant started out about the election and has morphed into a bunch of non-sense about killing people. My whole point is when I try and learn stuff about these candidates and keep a level head about things it always seems like Lucy pulls the ball away just before I kick it, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
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