Idiot Watch 9/16
About that ad..... you have to understand that McCain and the Republicans don't think they're stretching the truth. Obama has repeatedly said he is for "age-appropriate sex education" for kindergartners. (Replete with a poor Alan Keyes impersonation, but I guess I couldn't have done much better myself.) So McCain is not lying. I do say, however, he isn't telling the whole story about Obama's position.
But isn't that politics? Obama himself said the same thing about McCain just lately with this golden nugget: "It would have been nice if over the last 26 years that he's been in Washington that he (McCain) actually stood up for them (the American worker) once in a while."
In a word, balderdash! And Obama and his supporters calling McCain sleazy, dishonorable, sleaziest campaign ever, etc. Boy, do Obamaphiles have a short, short memory for national politics. Enough with the hyperbole, already. That also is lying.
As a father of a 5 year old who just entered kindergarten - I don't want him to know a thing about sex education from schools. Biology? Sure, I tell him where he's from. There is a portrait I took of him at 1-second old hanging on his bedroom wall. It's titled "Infinite Possibility." Should the schools tell him to stay away from potential predators? Absolutely! But that is not sex education, that's common sense survival skills. And if the predator happens to be white, Hindu, or Latino, are we then speaking of cultural education? Come on!
Barack's latest attack ad quoting the media as dismissing John McCain with rough pejoratives, is actually quoting the stories within the media that in turn quotes the Obama campaign. Barack is quoting himself and passing it off as media confirmation.
Uh....?
Now on to the economy. We're in big trouble. You know that. While I respect McCain for trying to boost our national confidence, public statements of denial are counter-productive. Man up, McCain!
By the way, does Obama dissing Keyes count as racism?
And finally, McCain is still an ABBA fan!!!!! Oh, the horror.
I suppose I could waste my breath here and exhort everyone out there to stop acting as if you're above the fray, and trash your holier-than-attitudes. But.... hey... wait a minute! I just did waste my breath.
'Till next time......
But isn't that politics? Obama himself said the same thing about McCain just lately with this golden nugget: "It would have been nice if over the last 26 years that he's been in Washington that he (McCain) actually stood up for them (the American worker) once in a while."
In a word, balderdash! And Obama and his supporters calling McCain sleazy, dishonorable, sleaziest campaign ever, etc. Boy, do Obamaphiles have a short, short memory for national politics. Enough with the hyperbole, already. That also is lying.
As a father of a 5 year old who just entered kindergarten - I don't want him to know a thing about sex education from schools. Biology? Sure, I tell him where he's from. There is a portrait I took of him at 1-second old hanging on his bedroom wall. It's titled "Infinite Possibility." Should the schools tell him to stay away from potential predators? Absolutely! But that is not sex education, that's common sense survival skills. And if the predator happens to be white, Hindu, or Latino, are we then speaking of cultural education? Come on!
Barack's latest attack ad quoting the media as dismissing John McCain with rough pejoratives, is actually quoting the stories within the media that in turn quotes the Obama campaign. Barack is quoting himself and passing it off as media confirmation.
Uh....?
Now on to the economy. We're in big trouble. You know that. While I respect McCain for trying to boost our national confidence, public statements of denial are counter-productive. Man up, McCain!
By the way, does Obama dissing Keyes count as racism?
And finally, McCain is still an ABBA fan!!!!! Oh, the horror.
I suppose I could waste my breath here and exhort everyone out there to stop acting as if you're above the fray, and trash your holier-than-attitudes. But.... hey... wait a minute! I just did waste my breath.
'Till next time......
Comments
Ads are part of the game and as pointed out all of the ads stretch the truth - the best example of this is the ad that claims that McCain cannot use email - while this is true it is not because he doesn't understand the concept it is because of his injuries from being a POW. Funny how the Obama ad fails to mention this as well.
As for the economy - the president has very little that he or she can do to help to improve the economy - but they can do alot to screw it up. If Obama gets elected he is going to tax us into a recession - if McCain is elected then we could continue to have problems because of a lack of regulation. Either way they can both screw up the economy.
Politics is the art of lying to the people without looking or sounding like your lying. No politician can be successful without that ability.
As far as the "politics of change" if either one gets in the White House it will be a change because the person in there is not going to be George Bush. Speaking of George - I am sick and tired of hearing that he was the worst president this country ever had - does anyone remember Jimmy Carter or how about Herbert Hoover or James Buchanon. One question should completely blow this fiction out of the water - have we been attacked, in our homeland, since 9/11? No - then he is not the worst president in history - actually not even close.
Posted by: Ed Costello | September 16, 2008 02:39 PM