Thoughts on a Rainy Sunday

“When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition it breeds violence.” Krishnamurti

 

“Human violence is extremely dangerous if human intelligence and technological development are not put to good use.” Dalai Lama

 

I hadn’t planned on turning this into a political blog but I am so sick of what is going on in politics right now that if you get your “news” from Fox go elsewhere because I plan to deal in truth.

 

"I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." –Sarah Palin, interview with Alaska Business Monthly, March 2007

 

American Deaths since the war began: 4,155

Official total wounded: 30,568

 

That help you any lady?

 

"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008

 

A very interesting observation from a person who had previously voted straight Republican ticket all her life who works in my office. “McCain made such a big deal about how Obama had no experience and then he goes and picks her!” What unabashed hypocrisy the Republican show. Her experience is that her state is close to Russia, a place she wants to start a war with by the way. By that logic I need to call the Indianapolis Colts and offer to play quarterback while Payton Manning recovers because I have a signed picture of Joe Montana next to me so obviously I’m qualified to play quarterback.

 

Thanks but no thanks to the bridge from nowhere?

 

In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.

The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.

When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.

"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.

The state, however, never gave back any of the money that was originally earmarked for the Gravina Island bridge, said Weinstein and Elerding.

In fact, the Palin administration has spent "tens of millions of dollars" in federal funds to start building a road on Gravina Island that is supposed to link up to the yet-to-be-built bridge, Weinstein said. (Thanks to Reuter's news for the above info.)

Barack Obama is an “elitist.”

This from John McCain who has 7 homes, he thinks. He isn’t really sure. I mean how dare an African-American man believe in the American dream and rise to become a candidate for President of the United States. How bigoted and condescending can they get? Comments on elitism just prove how racist McCain and Palin really are. But then again they supported Bush and the Iraq war which was based on the lie of “weapons of mass destruction.” A lie that destroyed the career of another African-American, Colin Powell. A man that they fed lies to but kept the proof that they were lies from him. After all he was only Secretary of State what right did he need to know that their were reports that proved there were no WMD.

 

Remember the whole Republican controversy on Obama’s former minister? Try looking up Joel’s Army that Palin and company believe in. You want scary? Right up their with Scientologists.

 

John McCain is a maverick.

 

And voted Bush’s way 95% of the time. What an independent thinker right?

 

I believe it was Franklin Roosevelt who had commented that repeating a lie doesn’t make it the truth. Right now McCain/Palin keep repeating the same lies over and over hoping that no one will discover the truth. Like the X-Files always stated the truth is out there and the truth will be known.

 

Vote for Obama/Bidden. Stop the lies.