I was wondering what he was going to do as reaction to the "more of the same" rhetoric
going about from the Dems. Here it is. Sort of.
I think the R's might have gotten a little jealous of the Dem's out-legacy-ing
them w/ a woman AND a man of color in their run.Picking someone who was elected in 2006...yeah, there's NO evidence of a scramble there ("hey, quickly, get a minority or a woman on our ticket. We need a "first," too!") or trying to force undecideds to pick between racial fear or gender fear.
EDIT: But hey, she's a FEMINIST as in, let's appropriate that word:
(from wikipedia entry on Feminist For Life)
The president of the "non-sectarian, non-partisan" Feminists For Life, Serrin Foster, describes the organization as opposed to all forms of abortion, including cases of rape, incest, birth defects, or to preserve the mother's health or life as broadly defined in the Supreme Court's Doe v. Bolton decision.[5] FFL believes that basic human rights, including the right to life, start at conception (FFL defined as the first formation of a human zygote).[6]
On its website and in its in-house publication American Feminist, FFL describes its broader vision as opposition to all forms of violence, considered as "inconsistent with the core feminist principles of justice, nonviolence and nondiscrimination"[7] including the death penalty,[8] assisted suicide,[8] euthanasia,[9] infanticide,[10] and child abuse.[11] FFL does not take an official stance on contraception[12] but they do seek a traditional feminist goal of equality in the workplace.[13]
I only hope this
Part of what I loved about last night was the texture of it.Voices of actual people mixed with politicians.
Obama encouraging us to put down our cynicism (which MCsame just made harder to do).
He is so obviously the people's candidate.Not talking down to them.The thing about the R party is their transparent distrust of the people.They're so patronizing and arrogant to the opinions and voices of the people and they play the card game of fears (racial, gendered, xeno).
So I feel like the vote is binarized between the truth and more lies, illusions, and mirrors.
Fact versus fiction.
And I'm hoping it doesn't come down to "the truth? you can't handle the truth!")
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Love, John McCain.
I also love the speculation about "oh, they can't attack her too hard on her lack of experience (three years, all in state politics) because they don't want to be seen as being too mean (because she's a pretty girl, we wouldn't want to make her cry). Not that those considerations ever stopped Republicans for ripping into Hillary Clinton all those years.
A young, female maverick does a lot to strengthen McCain's ticket and indicates where he intends to take this country if he wins.
Let's not forget that, before McCain had to court the Bush family in order to run this year, he was actually quite progressive. He was Bush's biggest critic (way more than, say, Biden). The selection of another "maverick" shows us that, as president, McCain may come back to his old style of politics.
That's a scary idea to me.
I even met the man and shook his hand, heard him speak and he gave a great spiel.
I used to think he was a fine alternative.That, given the Dem candidate, I may even have voted for him.
But the R's lost me with GW2.And then McCain's voting record became more of the MCsame and he really lost my respect then.Even after becoming the chump and the guy the Bush Admin made jokes about, he still followed in line with them.
8 years ago, different story.
Talk about flip flop.
An interesting fact: In the past 2 years, Obama has voted in support of Bush's positions between 40 and 50 percent of the time. That's not "change," either.
Analysts also note that every candidate shifts toward elections, which goes back, in part, to campaign finance reform.
McCain has been one of the biggest supporters of campaign finance reform for decades. Palin has already established herself as an ethics reformer. That administration could potentially get a lot of corporate money out of politics and clean up our democracy, which is probably the most pressing issue facing our nation.
& whether not it's manipulative to pick a woman because she's a woman--it means that no matter who wins this election, there will be a woman or minority in the White House. That's a positive, period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminists_
Now, I'm a Feminist for life, but with a different meaning in the linguistic sense.the one that thinks same sex couples should be allowed to marry.That if you need an abortion, you should be able to have one safely instead of with comet and hangers....
:) :)
Isn't Patricia Heaton (the Mom from that show Everyone Loves Raymond,) a feminist for life? I seem to remember her talking about it like she wanted people to think it made sense.
I would also argue that ending the costly, disastrous and illegal war in Iraq is the most pressing issue facing our nation. If not that then finding sustainable energy resources, improving our reputation on the global stage, health care reform, education reform - they're all at least as important as campaign finance reform - and McCain can't really compete on any of those issues - not even with a pretty lady by his side.
And the reason has to do with all the special interests money flowing into both candidates' campaigns. Until we have meaningful campaign finance reform, we will not elect a progressive presidential candidate who is able to work for peace & justice. Thus, in the long run, I maintain that campaign finance reform is the most pressing issue.
He totally overlooked the entire field of great to good republican women including Snow, Collins, Hutchison and even Dole, so he has possibly isulted republican women as well.