Fear or hope: a story of Obama living the American dream and a story of McCain living an American nightmare. This is where we are at as a country. We need to choose.
For the last two weeks at 10 pm EST I turn on the TV and watch. The Olympics of speechwriters, this is how I see the conventions. The artist in me gets pumped up for all the writers out there being inspired to spin a new phrase. Politicians, preachers, prophets, pundits, pirates all make their way to the podium to spew their rhetoric to the masses. I love it, the super bowl with spellchecker, grammar pro and limited commercials.
I have to vote democratic, it’s mandatory if I wish to keep my acoustics guitars. I do. It’s true when you purchase an acoustic guitar they actually make you sign a form stating you will be a life-long democrat and mock all republicans with songs entitled “three chords and the truth”. On the flip side I am told when you purchase a gun you have to also sign a life-long republican voter form stating you will oppose all big government interference as long as the big government still enforces pro-gun, anti-choice, and anti-global thinking.
The debates next month should be pay-per-view events: In this corner HOPE weighing in at 175 lbs with 10 knock-outs and two best sellers to his name. In the other corner FEAR weighing in at 155 lbs being knocked down 15 times but getting up from all of them with the patented thumbs up to the crowd.
Enjoy the show…
9.04.2008
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2 comments:
They're all Republicrats anyway.
You pays ur money an takes ur chances.
John,
I think the national election is a bit more complicated than Hope vs Fear.
Take, for example, the Farm Bill, which many, many people call the single piece of federal legislation that most exemplifies everything that is wrong with, not just the federal government, but the attitudes held by the population about all levels of government, the relationships.
What did Obama do on this issue? He talked a big game, but ultimately voted the party line, for it.
What did McCain do? He talked a big game, and followed through to vote against it.
It is tough gauging what Senators actually believe, given how often they are herded together on party lines. But, I think, the Farm Bill is one issue where the actual differences between Obama and McCain are clear. In their words, their behavior, their risk-taking.
It is just one issue of many, of course. But it is, perhaps, the most indicative.
take care,
MD
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