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Much ado has been made of Mitt Romney’s remarks concerning the President’s “gifts” to the poor, minorities, old and young being the reason he was re-elected. Continue reading
Anger at Nothing
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Occupy This: Keeping Our Piece
Sesame Street (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Just to be perfectly clear: Mitt Romney has no plans on killing Big Bird. Our gigantic yellow friend is safe from the trophy mount, roasting pan, or where ever else a seven-foot tall fictional avian might go when he shuffles off his mortal coil. Continue reading
Cashing Checks: The Grand Daddy Of All Privilege Bankers
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I try to be open-minded. I try to think that, even when someone holds views different from mine or behaves in a way I see as harmful to myself or others, deep down they are OK people. Mitt Romney sure makes it hard to keep believing it. Continue reading
Cashing Checks: Head of the Class
An upper-level dressage competitor performing an extended trot. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Okay, gonna go on about a little old news here: 70,000 dollar tax break for a dressage horse. That’s seventy thousand dollars. Seven, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero pennies. That, my friends, is a whole lot of Cheetos. Continue reading
Reserving My Right To Change My Mind
Holy Smokes!!! It has been far too long since last I posted. Sorry guys, like the John Lennon song says “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” Life has been happening all around me, mostly very good things, but it has kept me busy. As things get into a nice groove I shall get back to my minimum one post a day. Frankly I would not have posted tonight, but I’ve read too much to stay silent.
A few months ago I posted that I was going to vote for our incumbent President and the reasons why. The reasons are still there, the presumptive GOP nominee is only marginally better than the madmen he bested, I really do not want him to be the President. That said, I no longer want our current Chief Executive in office. He is nowhere near our worst President, even in, especially in, my life time, but he is at best another place holder that allows the economic elites to manipulate events to the detriment of the rest of us.
He has beat the drum of deregulation, that insane policy that brought us to our current economic woes, as loudly as any Republican. His window dressing economic progressiveness is limited to the “Buffett Rule” a rule that would merely maintain a status quo of the more or less flat tax we already have. He has assigned the very people who have broken our trust to guard that trust. All of that pales in comparison to his worst crime.
Yes, it is a crime what has been done to Bradley Manning. This young man has suffered being held in solitary confinement for ten months, without trial. He has had President Obama state that he has broken the law, declaring his guilt before he has been given a chance to defend himself in court. The administration has allowed for a provision in the NDAA codifying indefinite detention. They bombed a foreign nation without provocation. This President has behaved, on the national security front, in exactly the same ways his predecessor had, with nary a sound from those that condemned GW Bush for his policies.
Has this President done good things? Certainly, and I am grateful for them. As a queer I am grateful for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. I am grateful for his refusing to defend DOMA. That said, I cannot in good conscience support a man who is so willingly a tool of the military industrial complex and who is willing to shred those rights that we have, in the past, rightfully held up as the reason that despite our flaws we are a shining example to the rest of the world. It is for this reason I will be voting for Jill Stein in November.
Maybe the President is the lesser of two evils, but I refuse to vote like that anymore. I will vote my conscience and sleep well. I won’t condemn anyone so afraid of a Romney Presidency that they decide to vote for President Obama, but as you do so, as you contemplate your voting habits and political life over the next several months, ask yourself if this man shares your values, and please, even if you give him your electoral support, at least ask yourself if he deserves your moral support.
These Are Our Choices?
Warning! I will be writing about Rick Santorum here. Foul language may ensue!
We don’t have much of a Presidential field this year. Actually, we haven’t had one for some time. I really can’t think of any candidate, except maybe Jimmy Carter, in my lifetime that actually pursued the Presidency because they believed they had a plan to keep America great or make it greater. Oh we’ve had at least two who ran because other people had plans for them, but that is an entirely different matter.
Most of our Presidents in my life, and the people they bested in the election, merely ran because it was the ultimate feather in their electoral camp. It is the prize for any career politician. Achieve that and you are guaranteed a place in history. Not that I bear President Obama any ill will, but really how can you not see that from someone who ran such a centrist campaign?
The big exception this year is Rick Santorum, who provides sharp relief to the ultimate in careerist, cookie-cutter politicians: Mitt Romney. Say what you will about Rick, the crazy fucker has a plan. A messed up, misanthropic, misogynist plan to return us to the dark ages, but a plan nonetheless. He has a vision of this country that he wants to see become a reality. A vision that we have to make certain to avoid at all fucking costs!
It really isn’t too much to ask us all to pay more attention. That and get out there and vote. Oh, and maybe, just maybe give up that “I won’t vote for third-party candidates because they can’t win” self-fulfilling prophecy (and really? Is that so hard to figure out?) Because there are some bright people with good plans, or at least plans that aren’t scary as hell. People who do want to do more than just get that final feather in their political cap and we ignore them, because the two main parties are familiar and therefore safe.
Maybe that’s okay, but I want more choices. I want more flavor, even if it is not from alternate parties. I want the Dennis Kucinich’s of the Democratic party to get more attention, I want more than just a guy, or even a gal, checking off that last box on their to-do list. It really isn’t too much to ask, and we could get it, if we all ask for it.
