Just some random links about this week's Republican National Convention -- which tend to prove that what was said at the convention bears no resemblance to what is scientifically known as "reality" or morally known as "the truth."
First up, John Stewart of the Daily Show on Palin playing the Gender Card. (Click on the link to see the video.)
As a follow-up, Steven Colbert points out that Alaska has Mt. McKinley, which is the highest point in America and the part of our country closest to outer space. Therefore (following GOP logic) Sarah Palin has outer-space policy experience.
Next, an AP analysis of the Palin Speech on Huffington Post. (Click link to read.)
A few days back, Fresh Air was talking rationally and calmly about Sarah Palin's positions on things from Abstinence Education to Global Warming, here's a link for that. Today, they did a similar analysis of John McCain. To know these people is to be able to better counter her spin.
Here's the definitive article about the candidates' plans on health care -- something we should all care about. You can read the NE Journal of Medicine assessment here, or listen to the recent talk about it on Fresh Air, but the gist is that McCain wants to tax the health benefits you get from your employer, deregulate the health care industry, give people a tax rebate (less than the cost of the coverage), have people buy their own coverage individually, and let the market take care of things.
And in case you've forgotten what kind of antidote Obama offers for all this greed, hypocrisy, bullying, and irrationality, here's a link to Obama's Acceptance Speech.
Now that the Obama office in Burlington is open, there's plenty of opportunities to help fight the good fight. See you there! (Check the top of the page for the address.)
3 comments:
You couldn't get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after 143 days of experience.
You couldn't become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience of being a surgeon.
You couldn't get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience.
You couldn't join the military and become a colonel after a 143 days of experience.
You couldn't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.
BUT....
'From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate.
That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days?
We all have to start somewhere. The senate is a good start, but after 143 days, that's all it is - a start.
AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public seems to feel comfortable with this and campaigning for him.
We wouldn't accept this in our own line of work, yet some are OK with this for the President of the United States of America?
Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol.
Counted Sarah Palin's days of experience lately?
Funny how when Democrats want a race to be about issues -- and where the candidates stand on the issues -- Republicans always want it to be about something else.
Keep up the smears, "brave" anonymous poster; Obama's side will stick to the issues.
Sarah Pallin isn't running for President, Barack Obama is. Try and keep that straight.
Barack Obama is not the answer. McCain may not be the answer either.
It's hard to believe that what is posted here isn't extremely biased when you have references to the current President as "Bushieboy" and "Torturor-in-Chief". Not exactly information you can depend on to be objective. These type of comments make you appear to be unreasonably radical and your opinions, as a group, are discredited for it. Too bad, because some points are interesting for those of us interested in learning more about the candidates and not some fringe group agenda. Maybe you should re-read your mission statement.
I'm annonymous because I have no username or id, but I am not the author of the above comments.
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