A night with Barack Obama and Friends
My Dad has been in politics for sometime, he is always poking me here or there to attempt to get me involved, and until now, I just didn’t care!
I have followed Barack Obama since his speech at the DNC in 2004. I have never found myself as excited about a political candidate until now.
While McCain is releasing political ads that are flat out LIES, Obama is talking about ‘working together in Washington’. I still have problems understanding how ANYONE can even THINK about voting for McCain. (sorry Speelmans, I just don’t get it!)
But do we HONESTLY think that the republican agenda has made our lives better in the last 8 years???
No Child Left behind was the worst thing that could have happened to education… a republican policy… The Patriot Act does EXACTLY what most republicans are worried about, giving government TOO much power… And it complete tossed the rights given to us in the constitution out the window! Yet, it was a republican led bill… I just don’t understand what American’s are thinking when they vote republican!!!!
Seems to me that republicans are uninformed, uneducated about politics, and one issue voters.
Money - Fact is if Obama wins, 95% of Americans will get a tax break! That is a fact!!! McCains commercial about raising taxes is ONLY true if you make LOADS of $$$, or if you own a Fortune 500 company.
Abortion - NO ONE, is going to do touch Roe V. Wade, People have voted republican because they’re pro-life for 8 years now… and what has Bush done with abortion… NOTHING! McCain will also do nothing, and Obama will do nothing. Messing with Roe V. Wade is political suicide. This is why no one has touched it. So why waste your vote on a republican who will make the lives of everyone else horrible, when you KNOW they’re not going to do anything with Abortion or Roe V. Wade anyways!
Hand Outs or Wasted Tax Dollars - The idea that Democrats are giving hand outs to people, and wasting our tax dollars to take care of people who won’t take care of themselves. This, in my opinion, is the biggest difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats believe we should lend people a helping hand when people are unable to help themselves. That the gov’t is there to work FOR the people. And republicans believe that people should do this all on their own, if they can’t… TOO BAD!
Obama’s plan for higher education is that… if a student, serves in the military or green peace, or volunteers in a public service program, the gov’t will pay for that students education.
One of the biggest complaints I hear from republicans is that they don’t want to continue to float the bill for those who aren’t willing to work to make a living. I haven’t seen a policy to correct this come out of the republican camp in 8 years? And we can’t just ignore that lower/middle class of people who might need a bit of a helping hand. (Although I’m sure most republican’s would be happy to completely ignore them!) Think Chaos Theory. If you don’t know or understand Chaos Theory, it’s the idea that everything in the world is linked together. So bettering the lives of those in Lower/Middle class, will only serve to better our lives as well.
Liberal Media - Then there’s this farce that Rush Limbaugh talks about “Liberal Media”…
Listen, I’m a liberal, and I hate the media, I can’t find a TV channel that is NOT conservative. NPR is the closest thing to liberal media there is… CNN is now the Conservative News Network with A-holes like Glenn Beck on all the time… Fox News is ridiculously Conservative… I can’t find a TV channel that even comes close to being Liberal… PBS, is the closest thing.
So, this whole thing about the “Liberal Media” has just been an excuse for republican’s to Deny all the wrong doings and F’ups the news reports on… If Fox News came out with a story about how Bush’s approval rating was lower than any president in history… Rush would come out the next day accusing Fox News of being Liberal.
Foreign Policy - I’m still not sure that our highest officials didn’t KNOW about 9/11, and allowed it to happen (if you want to see some scary stuff, watch “Loose Change”) More people across the world HATE us now than ever. I don’t really care if people don’t like us if we’re doing the right things. But we’re NOT doing ANY of the right things. Bush LIED to the American people to go into Iraq. Why was everyone all bent out of shape w/ Clinton lied about a BJ, but Bush sends American’s off to DIE based on a Lie, and no one seems to care.
In the first time in American history we invaded a sovereign country, to look for ‘weapons of mass destruction’ which didn’t exist!
This country is in DESPERATE need of a change! Maybe it’s just because I’m older and have a lot more to lose these days, but I’ve never been SCARED before as an American… and McCain SCARES THE CRAP out of me!
Yesterday we went to an Obama Rally in Dublin Ohio. They originally had planned to fill one set of the stands at the football stadium and half the field. However, enough people showed up to pack the ENTIRE field, and ALL of the stands.
My Dad told me he hasn’t seen this type of enthusiasm and positivity in a campaign since John F. Kennedy came to Mansfield, Ohio.
It was the most exciting thing I’ve been to in years! Several Democratic Candidates from the Dublin and Columbus area showed up to briefly address the crowd.
John Glenn
Sherrod Brown
Ted Strickland were all there and gave great speeches.
Joe Biden talked about his long time friend John McCain, and his poor choice in running mate (considering her entire state of Alaska has half as many people as Franklin County.)
Finally, Barack Obama gave a wonderful speech telling us how he, with our help, plans to shape the American of tomorrow.
I beg you… I am pleading with all of you who might read this… (that’s right, I’m not above begging!) PLEASE vote for Barack Obama, for the sake of my daughter, your kids, or your grandchildren, for our soldiers who are dying in Iraq, for the sake of this GREAT NATIONS’ future.
Keep American Strong VOTE OBAMA
Nice site. There’s some good information on here. I’ll be checking back regularly.
Just went to Cafe Press and bought Finn a Peace, Love, Obama t-shirt. I commend your efforts to Barack the Vote!
You know Joe as much as I love you and you have the right to your opinion, I don’t think it was FAIR of you to down our family, your extended family (or anyone who votes republican or democrat). I personally vote for the candidate (republican or democrat—-makes no difference to me) whom I feel will do the best for our country, state, and city. I guess I am just a little bit hurt by the Speelman comment. This is a country where we have freedom of speech and you are certainly entitled to it. One last thing, we all have the choice to make a difference in this country and it most certainly doesn’t matter if you are a democrat or a republican and long as you do it!
I am passionate about what I believe in and keep my mouth shut 90% of the time… sometimes I just need to overflow. I appologize if anyone felt my rant was a personal attack, as it was not intended to be. My comment about the ‘Speelmans’ was simply to say “I know the Speelman side of the family will disagree with me, so I’m sorry if you are offended.”
No offense taken and apology accepted. However, just an FYI for you. Not ALL Speelmans vote Republican so that was the error that upset me and may or maynot upset other members of this family. But I did do a little research last night on some of the points you made since I personallly am undecided as to who will get my vote. So, your post did me a little good anyways. :o)
Wow! What passion! I’m a Speelman and am also not Republican or Democrat. I base my vote on who I think will do the best for the country with where it’s at at the time. You may not want to make blanket statements about an entire family in the future…
But I enjoyed the passionate post!
Hum….Actually, no one has ever accused me of being a Republican before, which with my sense of humor, I found quite amusing. Probably just a twisted sense of humor on my part.