Obama the Socialist?

Sen. John McCain’s new dig at Obama is that he wants to “spread the wealth” and that that makes him a socialist.

When I heard this, and learned that people could actually be buying into this, I laughed. 

Firstly. If anyone, and I mean anyone, supports an NFL team that isn’t successful and calls Obama a socialist or “redistributing the wealth” they might as well give up on the “socialist” NFL.

The NFL has revenue sharing you see. What that does is it takes all the money it makes from TV and distributes it amongst the teams. Major League Baseball, AMERICA’S pastime, does the same thing. 

Look. Obama may be very liberal, and I understand that doesn’t sit well with a lot of people. But to believe that he wants to redistribute wealth and make America a communist state? Really? Does anyone pay attention? Do people realize that a BAIL OUT would be the same thing? Doesn’t McCain support the bail out? 

I believe John McCain, like Republicans in the past eight years, has been put in a tough place. George W. inherited an America that had some problems, but those problems were probably overshadowed by the good economy. But, the dot com boom finally busted and 9/11 happened. I don’t know how unlucky you could get to start a presidency. 

Something similar happened to McCain. See, the conservative way of doing things isn’t doing so well right now. After eight years of George W., people are sick of Republicans. This will be mirrored by the way the Senate races go. McCain is the leader of an unpopular party and happens to be a very liberal conservative, if that makes any sense at all. 

McCain had to solidify the base, which is what the Palin pick did, and he’s done that pretty effectively with his new “socialist” message. I suppose it worked, but you don’t have to go that far.

It especially hurts when Obama is not going to raise taxes for the middle class. 

Basically:

Obama is not a socialist.

McCain has no choice but to say these things.

Don’t fall for campaign spin from EITHER CAMPAIGN. 

To further the above point, McCain isn’t Bush.

Don’t stick to one news source.

I think my last point is the best one. Don’t only watch MSNBC because the ultra liberal view can blow your mind. Don’t watch too much CNN cause they are slanted to the left a little as well, though it’s not as obvious. Don’t watch too much Fox News cause there is far too much yelling, and I don’t think it’s good to watch people yell a lot. 

Ultimately, I got off track here… but everyone needs to look things up for themselves and ratify their sources before listening to one thing and running with it! Gah.

Sexism vs Palin

I’ve been hearing a lot of noise this election. And I mean a lot. For instance, the McCain campaign is sending out noise that the media and even Obama are being sexist when they’re being tough on Palin. Well, guess what: they’re not.

Obama, Biden, and McCain have all been involved of this process for nominating our presidential nominees for months. Palin is a fresh face who is a NO NAME. No one knows who the hell she is. So, what’s the reaction? Well, we want to know who the hell she is. So what does the media do? They explode and try to find out as much as they can about the Governor from Alaska. 

Another thing, the whole issue of her daughter being pregnant. No one went and pried into her personal life to find that out. The McCain campaign let that information out into the public to avoid it being a problem later on. There it is. Now stop complaining.

Let the media do it’s job. Let them find out all they can about Palin. If she is going to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency we deserve, and should, know everything we can about her.

There’s also a little issue about Obama and his “you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig” remark. Well, it was a joke. It was a bad joke, but it’s a joke. This joke was talking about policy. Although Obama should still watch what he says as the McCain campaign seems to have a ten man team waiting in the wings to chug out another TV ad whenever needed.

Can’t we please forget the sexism and racism from the media and focus on issues and the candidates character? I mean really, the only sexism and racism in this election season will come from voters.

Obama captures 9 more superdelegates

And he brings the Democratic primaries an inch closer to ending.

One of the ’supers’ was a former Clinton supporter as well. If the majority of the ’supers’ support Obama this primary season could end as soon as two weeks from now.

In the meantime, Obama and McCain have essentially begun the general election swapping blows on whether Obama is endorsed by Hamas and if Obama is age-ist or if McCain is losing his bearings.

Oh, boy… there will be some fun come November.

Even more fun considering McCain’s pastor supporters may be more controversial than Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. John Hagee, a McCain endorser, has claimed Hurricane Katrina was created by God to punish New Orleans for its homosexual sins.

On the other side, Rev, Rod Parsley has called Islam a “false religion” and has essentially called on Christians to wage war on the religion.

Right, now it’s time to sit back and wait for the backlash… I mean, there has to be backlash. Right? …right? Media? Hello?

Limbaugh should be ashamed.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” was aimed to cause some mischief during the Democratic Primaries last night. The goal of this “operation” was to disrupt the primaries and help Clinton, who he used to think was the weaker opponent for Senator John McCain to face in the general election, win the two states.

Well, it doesn’t look like that worked out today.

So now, he changes his tune a bit.

According to Politico.com, which happens to be a great political website, Limbaugh now believes Obama is the weaker opponent. He also took a shot at former Senator George McGovern, who today switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama and called for Clinton to drop out, saying that “McGovern in his lifetime wants to see someone lose worse than he did,” referring to when McGovern was the Presidential nominee for the Democrats.

Absurd.

This guy is absolutely absurd.

He probably has an audience because he is absurd. Now, why is he absurd? It’s very simple.

He called to cause disruption in the Democratic Primaries. He wanted to cause some unrest. He wanted to play with people’s right to vote. That is what is absurd.

Our troops die to protect our democratic rights, which includes the right to vote. World wars have been fought to protect the right to vote. The right to vote is a fundamental part of this country and democratic philosphy and he wants to play with it like some play thing. He wants to see how far his influence goes for ego reasons and decides to play a very shameful game with the democratic system.

It goes against the very core of America. I understand not voting for either candidate to get your message out. I understand voting for the other party because you’re not happy with yours. But, for the life of me, I will never understand voting to cause “chaos.”

It’s absolutely absurd.

Uh oh Hillary?

Hillary Clinton will say that she’s winning and leading for the nomination and all that. She’s happy and touting her victories in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. On the surface, you might say Clinton is the front runner.

But… wait. Clinton was ahead by about 20 points nationally just a couple months ago. But now? Obama and her are in a basic dead heat, especially since Obama won a whopping 13 states last night. In the delegates both candidates are also in a dead heat.

Ok, maybe you still give Clinton the edge and possibly the momentum for blunting Obama’s comeback. I mean, she did win California and New York. She also won by double digits in both.

Thing is… she just donated $5 million to her own campaign. Obama just got $32 million in the month of January alone. There’s still a long way to go and one candidate clearly has more money than the other at this point.

Not only is she potentially running out of money, but now MSNBC reported that Hillary’s staff is working for FREE. Yes, free. That’s not good, as you might imagine. Politico.com reports that sources close to Obama say he’s on pace for $30 million in February.

Uh oh Hillary?

But you gotta wonder. Hillary was favored by so much just a couple weeks ago, and now they’re even. She could’ve went for the jugular, but now she’ll have to slowly grind it out. This reminds me of a sporting event or a game or a match or whatever you term it. The underdog is hanging around and hanging around and is being allowed to hang around by the favorites.

Obama is taking advantage of his opportunities and Clinton isn’t.

And now we’re entering the fourth quarter of the conference finals with a tie.

Who’s gonna make it to the championship?

Democratic Debates and Pakistan

Debating Democrats

On Tuesday the Democrats were at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA  with another debate in which many people were expecting fireworks. Prior to the debate Senator Barack Obama said he’d be getting more aggressive with Senator Hillary Clinton and did he deliver.

Not only did he deliver, but Senator John Edwards seemed to be the most aggressive one on stage on Tuesday night. Although he seemed to be going too far at times, sometimes going after her character itself. It was important for Clinton to get attacked a bit that night, and especially important for Obama and Edwards, but as Governor Bill Richardson put it, it seemed like they were just attacking her character and she may have won some sympathy votes.

As for who won the debate, I believe Obama had the best performance. He attacked Clinton but didn’t attack her too much, which he needed to do to show that he can stand up when he needs to. Clinton stumbled when confronted with the issue about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, which is a horrible idea by the way.

I really do wish that Joe Biden  had a better chance of being the Democratic nominee, but it doesn’t look good. Though he should be considered by everyone in about sixty four days, I heard at least three times someone say “I agree with Joe,” or “Joe is right.” He really hit the head with one specific thing though…

Pakistan is the biggest threat to the United States… not Iran.

Joe Biden hit the head when he said that. Iran does not have nuclear weapons yet, while Pakistan does. Pakistan really is out of control. There have been multiple bombings there that have been linked to the Taliban and even Al Qaeda. Now, please tell me. What’s a bigger threat? Iran wanting nuclear weapons or Pakistan having nuclear weapons while unstable. On MSNBC.com they reported that there might be a state of emergency in Pakistan. It really doesn’t come close. Hopefully the media catches on to what Biden said and digs into that story a bit deeper.

Keep your eye out on the news. Pakistan seems to be falling apart.