cackling upon my fence post. FYI: I'm neither Republican not Democrat though, apparently I'm leaning quite a bit.
So, anyway, another sharp-shootin' rootin' tootin' last evening. So it seems. Pardon any grammatical errors or long-winded sentences.
I listened again to speeches made by both parties this morning before I began working and got to thinking about the nasty comments and snide remarks made about Obama at the RNC.
I went back and forth between speeches and discovered that Obama states a lot of facts in his speech. But he doesn’t do it in a nasty, stabbing, arrogant fashion. A man with a not-so-impressive past humbly states general fact as a reality. Why is that something to snicker about?
But on the flip-side when you’re comfortable, you’re actually scared, and experience settles itself into your backbone because you don’t have the will to really stand apart and continue to make action part of your experience. You’d think McCain would understand that.
McCain once didn’t have time for experience; he had to act. Experience helps, but rarely does it have anything to do with how you’re going to deal with reality. Sometimes experience gives you too much confidence, too much arrogance and self-assurance, too much time to sit around and think highly of yourself and all you’ve achieved while your ambition takes the easy chair.
People like Palin, (who left her gun behind and resorted instead to her index finger and blowing kisses at the crowd during her acceptance speech) and the lisping, rather personally experienced, womanizing Giuliani of New York, had nothing better to give us, after all we’ve put up with and been through, but the opportunity to remind everyone, scare everyone, with the fact that Obama has less experience.
Bravo!!! Here! Here! And a toast to the experienced! Well said. Well thought out.
Yes, Obama has less experience. Tell us something we don’t know. Oh while you’re at it, remind us of another thing or two like, the kind of experience George Bush has, and what that “experience” has done for us lately? There are indeed a lot of facts to be considered in this country and in this campaign, don’t you think?
Obama’s “lack” of experience is indeed a fact. But what kind of “experience” should we be impressed by?
Should I be impressed by P.O.W’s, who’ve been to hell and lived it, but spent the rest of their lives rewarding themselves and secretly, bitterly coveting the chance to be president as though he’s earned it and deserves it? Or should I weep for the man who actually died in Afghanistan and left his wife and children behind?
Should I be impressed by someone who, with nearly one foot in the grave, defines the American people as cry-babies because he’s had it so bad, he understands and is humbled by that fact?
Facts! Facts! Facts! What shall we do with them all? Facts are everywhere these days!
Should we be impressed now with what one man endured 50 years ago when thousands of our young men and women are dying right now, today and continue to lose their lives in uncivilized countries that have been uncivilized since the beginning of time and will never, EVER change?
We’re knee deep in sh** now, and experience means nothing to me. And quite frankly, with what we’ve seen lately—experience should be irrelevant to everybody.
Should I be impressed with thousands of lost jobs? Ridiculously fluctuating gas prices? Filthy air? Melting ice-caps? Dead, bloated, extinct animals? Just last night I heard GMAC let go 5,000 more workers who will now by vying for positions with our recent college graduates!
Were all those jobs lost for environmental change? What’s the real reason people are losing their jobs? (Yeah, like I’m believe that the average American is fore-going their vehicles for the environment and putting other Americans out of jobs when they’re too lazy to put an empty bottle in the recycling bin!)
Hello! Could it be we don’t have any money around here? Indeed, some of us are poor, poor scared little cry-babies who don’t know what to do with ourselves and all the plastic we consume and then some of us really look at the facts, reduce, reuse and make do at the hands of the experienced.
Furthermore, should I be impressed by pregnant teens with flashy engagement rings who keep their babies and their “good” mothers who showboat that fact in front of everyone as if to dare any heathen to challenge their good Christians values? And besides, what’s a pregnant teen when there are more important things to do? It’s irrelevant.
I’m disappointed.
I’m disappointed with some of the facts and a lot of the experience here. I disappointed that small-scale experience has somehow being equated with real significant change when experience, as we currently know it, more clearly defines large-scale stagnation and even failure.
Palin was a no-name doing good things for the people in a not-so-well known neck of the U.S. woodland but hey, that’s experience. I guess when I listened to Palin, I was expecting, even hoping, for a humble person— this no-name, experienced, suffering mother, who has done so much in such a short time and is being given yet another challenge, if you will.
I couldn’t believe the audacity and arrogance Palin openly expressed. I really was shocked. Just another showdown hoe-down sprinkled with the occasional glimpse of a ZZ-Top wannabe and his “Drill Now” poster swaying in the pig-shit breeze.
I now understand why McCain chose Palin--- she’s a female version of him. And she’s going to out-live him (probably because she’ll have him shot) and he wants to make sure his heroism lives on even after he’s dead and rotting in the ground with all that he earned and deserved. What better choice than that of a power-hungry bitter woman with little time for anything but power and personal pretense?
But you know…I also got to thinking about all of these facts and how important experience is for inflating one’s ego, fattening up resumes and making ignorant, less experienced people feel safe.
While I was turning that reality around in my mind I thought, who are any of us, really, in the “grand scheme of things” and who will we be after we’ve done great things and we’re gone? It’s rather ironic I think. And it’s rather historical of good Christians who sit back comfortably and smugly in their pristine suits, and typical of rednecks sweatin’ under stiff cowboy hats.
I think the real fact here is that you don’t need a fat resume to make a difference in the lives of people. And, fact is, you don’t need an SUV to travel more than 100 miles or a half dozen homes in which to rest your weary head. You don’t need experience to care. And, in fact, you just might be a real frustrated, nobody carpenter sweating your bloody tears and wondering just when everyone is going to get the facts straight.
Is this one of the daughter's holding the recent baby of Ms. Palin while Dad's in rehab and she waves at the crowd? Who is playing mom here? That girl looks nervous to me.
I think Reuters captured these moments quite well. I don't agree with Obama about family being off limits. When you decide to become a public figure, you also decide to bring your family to they table even if rarely, or ever, it's for dinner. It's idealistic, and it's ridiculous to think otherwise.
Shouldn't we have a peek behind the scenes to better know the man/woman? It seems only fair to the American people that we see how he/she runs things at home while we think about how he/she will run things on a much grander scale. Otherwise, it looks like someone is hiding the truth. At least that's how it looks to me-- I obviously won't speak for anyone else. God forbid if we are to learn some truth and then make sound judgments based on that truth.
People you have to look at the whole picture. If you're a Christian or pro-life, don't vote conservative because of that fact alone. If you're pro-gay marriage or pro-abortion, don't vote liberal on those premises alone. If you're anti-war or pro-air and being able to breathe, those are indeed serious issues. However, don't you think you're limiting yourself by voting for some reason, some thing that places identity on your own character when we’re talking about an entire country at stake here? There are so many issues to be considered. You have to vote for the person. You have to look at the person's character, the overall situation and his viewpoints in the grand scheme of things. You use that thing God gave you called a brain and you learn to discern. Otherwise, you’re being lazy and actively uninvolved.
And so, some truth has been told, and that's a good thing on the part of Ms. Palin. But, one's forthcoming about those things that are obvious isn't necessarily noble or noteworthy, and it doesn't create sound judgment for the American people. You can't hide those obvious things, and you owe it to the public to make explanations because the real, scary stuff we'll never hear about or see.
In a number of ways this woman's home-life has been neglected and it isn't good. However, I realize that nobody's home-life is perfect and everyone has problems. Some things happen, even to good people, that is beyond their control. But, McCain isn't a good person, and he isn't going to choose someone who is inherently good. I think I heard that even Palin's husband's is a drunk? When there are those many things bubbling on the surface, there is so much more lurking beneath still waters.
It looks to me like Ms. Palin preserves herself, the only one who stays intact because she's the only one that matters. If you can't manage your personal life, how in the hell will you manage a country? Or, is it that you manage everything else nicely, it's that your personal life is a wasteland? So, where does that leave us, the American people when it comes to you?
Great! So you smooth things over with the birth of your recent unplanned handicapped child at the age of 44, that you obviously don't have time to care for, or your pregnant teenage daughter because you're a pro-life conservative with God on your side? Certainly Americans aren't so stupid. Or, are they? Personally, I think Americans are fed-up and angry, and they're sick of the neglect at the expense of a cushy, Bush-y world they've been forced into.
You aren't pro anything but pro-you and pro-politics. You're pro-everything that isn't long-lasting or of substance. That much is obvious. And if this country votes out of fear as opposed to change for you and the good 'ol boy whose years and years of flashbacks, bitter calluses and corns you'll be trimmin', then you'll be representative of what this country has become and that's a good 'ol oxymoron that George Bush has put in place-- POWER and NEGLECT.
