Dumb Question

Well this evening CNN asked the public (in it's poll question) "Which party will be more successful in attracting evangelicals?". Well I think that kind of question is the type of question that dumb downs the rhetoric in the political discussions going on out there. For a cable news station to try to categorize people into one political camp based on their religious affiliation alone is awfully simpleminded. The Republicans are stronger on their abortion issue, but the Democrats are much stronger on taking care of their fellow man, taking care of this earth, (both issues are actually in the Bible), and they are better at taking care of pocket book issues of the regular Joe. But Republicans seem to have a more credible record on killing, profits for corporations, and keeping regulations away from corporations in order to save them as much as possible and past the costs to consumers. I would hate to be raising children right now. What can you hope to leave your children? I admire people who are having kids, I really do. But please don't hate me, but I don't think people with kids deserve taxes breaks for having so many kids. Get a tax break for one, maybe two kids, but that's it, after 2 kids, no more tax breaks, no deductions, not at my expense! If you have kids you must be able to afford them, if not don't expect the rest of the country to pay for them! It's all on you.

The Evangelical voter, in fact ALL voters, should vote with their own brain, not their religious leader's brain. We live in America where we vote for ourselves and each of us should vote our own mind. We need to make our own decisions, and be willing to defend those decisions with violence if necessary, but with our minds first.

"Bobby" Made Me Sad

I promise I'll be brief. I watched the movie "Bobby" Saturday night and I came away angry. And you may wonder why, let me tell you. Bobby Kennedy was shown talking to children who looked to be about nine or ten years old. He was discussing the ENVIRONMENT, forty years ago! He was using words like "refuse" instead of "garbage" with basically fourth graders! Do you think a candidate for national office would do that now? Do you think a candidate COULD do that? Our politics have made the conversation between politicians and the voting public so dumb it makes me crazy. Just go and listen to the speeches of John or Robert Kennedy, Martin L. King Jr. or even their polar opposites at the time, Richard Nixon or any other Republican, and at least they discussed the issues of the times. You might have disagreed with these people, but they spoke to us like we were adults, they didn't dumb down the conversation and they spoke about whatever the issue was. Nowadays, it's always about the politics not the issues, it's all about the negative crap that someone has done in their past or in private. Hey, John F. Kennedy was prolific at sleeping out on his wife and the press managed to keep that out of the press and where it belonged, between a husband and wife (and who ever else was involved). It is not my business who he slept with and it's not yours, just like it's not my business who the ex-governor of NY slept with either. That doesn't mean I don't think he was as stupid as they come for targeting whores and whore houses and then sleeping in one, with one. Anyway, I said I'd be quick.

If Barak Obama or John McCain are going to occupy the White House for the next four years, shouldn't we at least ask them to be able to speak eloquently, or at least well? Shouldn't they at least expect us to understand the basics of the English language and not have to dumb down their speeches so "all" can understand? Maybe "all" shouldn't be voting unless they get tutoring. Just a thought.