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veronica_rich ([personal profile] veronica_rich) wrote2008-07-14 06:59 am
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Goodbye economy

Airlines can fail, Wal-Mart can wobble, and gas can keep climbing. But when one of the most major, cheapeast forms of a little sin and stress relief sell out to an overseas beverage company - something it never needed to do even during the Depression - you know even worse times are sliding toward your country FAST.

I don't have particularly strong feelings of love and flowers toward Barack Obama; I'll be honest. His lack of experience bothers me, I'm not sure he'll be able to get the votes to do the things he wants to promise. And his eagerness to please the nutjob evangelicals for a few votes by infringing on basic medical rights for the female half of the population scares the hell out of me. But I'm sure as fuck not going to vote for McCain a sixth term for Reagan. He didn't have enough of a brain - literally - to run the country well the first time around, and his proteges and hangers-on have done absolutely nothing to improve it beyond padding their own bank accounts. In fact, with Clinton's help (on NAFTA), they've pretty much driven the whole country into the ground.
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[identity profile] yoiebear.livejournal.com 2008-07-14 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You have put into this post my exact thoughts!

[identity profile] justawench.livejournal.com 2008-07-14 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
his eagerness to please the nutjob evangelicals for a few votes by infringing on basic medical rights for the female half of the population

Seriously? I hadn't heard that. I thought the right was hating on his quote that he wouldn't be against abortion if one of his daughters made "a mistake." (Calling a child "a mistake" had them frothing at the mouth)

I'm disappointed by his pandering about the faith-based initiatives, but I still think he's the only hope we've got. Every last shred of McCain's being is owned by lobbyists of the Enron sort (Phil Gramm anyone?).

[identity profile] compassrose7577.livejournal.com 2008-07-14 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oddly, if you go by the polls, if you line up five people, your still going to find one that thinks Bush is doing a good job. Scarier yet, if you line up two, one of them is going to think Grandpa McCan't-Find-His-Ass-With-Both-Hands would be a wise choice for president.

If you wonder about the wisdom of JohnQ voter, consider this: given all that they knew (or should have known), they elected Bush AGAIN!!

We can only hope this country has enough fingernails left to be able to hang on for another 6 months. It's not looking good for the home team!

[identity profile] finding-neo.livejournal.com 2008-07-15 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone see the cartoon from some East coast newspaper with Obama dressed in Muslim clothes and Michelle Obama with an afro? I heard about it on NPR, but couldn't listen long enough to understand what it referenced (if anything, sounded like plain nastiness to me) or which paper it was in.

I'm not getting in to the abortion debate. I know it's important, but frankly no longer affects me (it'd be the second coming if I got pregnant at my age and um, lack of relationship status) and I've seen so many steps backward for our civilization anyway regarding so many things that if it were outlawed again I'd probably just laugh. We have more female lawmakers in America than any time in previous history and they can't protect abortion rights? We're already so far up a shit creek at this point, one more shovelful won't matter.

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