4 posts tagged “barak obama”

You have got to be kidding me.

Recent quotes from a few people who say they will not vote for Obama, even though they are registered Democrats:

"The constitution should be amended so it will not let any colored people run for the White House." This was stated by Robert Miller, a 72-year-old white man. The last president he remembers is Eisenhower. (could this man hurry up and die, please?)

"I don’t think our country is ready for a black president", said Joyce Susick, explaining why she didn’t vote for Barack Obama in the primary. She is a white woman who works in a paint store in Pennsylvania. She is a registered Democrat. She did vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary. (I’m surprised she even voted for a woman, with her attitude.)

"I don’t think we’re ready for either one yet", said a man referring to whether the country is ready for either a black president or a woman president. His name is Doug Richardson. He is from Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is 62.

Thankfully, polls show that the above arseholes do not represent the typical white Democrat.

On the other hand, apparently there is a movement among some black people who are asking if Obama is "black enough"…the favourite saying is, he is not "black like me"…these sentiments have been published in newpaper columns, magazines, and debated on news shows. If white people are criticised for saying they will not vote for a black man, can black people be criticised for saying a man who is half-black and half-white can not truly represent black people?

Also, there is a claim he can not understand the "black experience" because his black roots are from his father, who is from Kenya. Om…the native people of Kenya have not really been enjoying what Europeans and Arabians did to it for the past, oh, four hundred years, have they? (They obtained their independence again in 1963 after being colonised, first by the Portuguese, then by Oman, then Germany, then Britain.)

Will this country ever get it right? Maybe we aren’t "ready" for a black man in the White House, or a woman for that matter. Maybe old white men need to be in charge forever. Maybe golf should be made the national sport past-time. Maybe all women wearing bras under cup size C should be required to get breast implants. And also, maybe all women should have Botox on their faces (at $400 a pop every 4 or 5 months, thanks) by age 29 or be considered ugly. Maybe anyone with any sense should leave this country, and leave the racists and misogynists to themselves. They can rob each other blind with price gouging and get the NRA to police the place. Maybe I should become a racist, and cut off one of my legs, because I am 1/8 Indian. (for this past paragraph, in case you have not picked up on it, sarcastic, I am)

What I am, is disgusted.

But…..maybe this election, this man who had the guts to run for president knowing many people would object to him simply because of his race, will bring to light in this country, how backwards many people still are. And by some miracle, these people will become self-aware, and be embarrassed, and change. However, I know from psych classes, as well as experience, that the ability to be self-aware takes a buttload of maturity. And in a country where over 400,000 Botox procedures were done in the past year, well. I’m not holding my breath on this one.

(Who did I vote for?)

Obama, my hero

Nuttier than a Snickers Bar. They are all nutters. I am talking about, the people campaigning for president of the U.S. of A. this year.

Here is why:

John McCain is simple. He is so obviously insane, there is no denying it. You can see it in his eyes. They glow with an inner light fueled by misfiring synapses that flap around in the dark like bats in a bellfry. They shimmer like the gas planet Saturn, methane and CO2 from all the greenhouse gas spewed by his party's homies, churning around in a soup. And anyone who would run for this position for the Republican party after the oil company dictatorship that has reigned supreme in this country for the past seven and a half years, would have to be. Plus, he says wacky things that contradict themselves.

Hillary Clinton was driven nuts by her husband. He may have been a good president, but he was a shyte hubby. He believes receiving oral sex from other women is not cheating. And she remained married to him all these years. Also, she is not right in the head if she thinks taking away the gas tax for a season will improve the economy. I don’t know about you, but saving one dollar eight cents a week (18 cents times ten) is not going to inspire me to suddenly run out to Macy’s department store and buy a pair of $100 sandals (If you want to improve the economy, punish the oil companies, whose record profits will enable their executives’ great-great-great-etc grandchildren to inherit more cash than Anna Nicole Smith’s baby. Gas tax pays for many things, and does not punish them. In fact, people might buy MORE of their product if it is cheaper, so it could actually REWARD them). Now she is putting on her Blue Collar hat, portraying herself as the champion of the working class. Really? When was the last time she had to forgo dining out for a month in order to get both the electric bill and the water bill paid (never)? And why exactly, when she was a big-wig for Wal-mart in the ‘80s and ‘90s, did she do nothing when the retail giant fought against labor unions? (we all know what a great employer the company has been) But apparently, many Democrats are nutters too, cause they believe her when she says she represents the working people.

Barak Obama is a nutter. He thinks telling the truth and having really good ideas that will cause actual improvement, will get him elected president of this country. He believes he will be able to get this government to pull away from corporate lobbyists like Big Oil. The people of North Carolina are nutters. They voted him in 56%. (1% picked "no preference". Is that a choice?) They are inspired by someone who seems honest and intelligent. When was that ever a factor in electing a president? (With sarcasm, I speak, said Yoda)

Giuliani and the rest, well…

Over the past week, voters in the Triangle area of North Carolina have been receiving strange phone calls. Strange in that it is an automated voice call instructing them that their voting registration packet will be arriving in the mail soon, and this after the period for registering by mail had passed. Strange also, in that these calls seem to be targeting black voters (in other words, Democrats). Strange again, in that many of the people who were contacted had also already registered. And lastly, strange that the interest group making the calls did not identify itself in the call nor how to reach them to stop these calls, which is the law.

Someone let the State Attorney General know about it, and he issued a statement denouncing it. When his office investigated the calls, they discovered they were coming from Women’s Voices-Women Vote.

Who works for this group? Interestingly, its president is someone who recently donated a shed-load of cash to Hill-Pac, Hillary Clinton’s campaign org. And, the Executive Director is someone who used to work for Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign, and Women's Voices-Women Vote's attorney also has worked for the Clintons.

Hillary’s camp denies anything to do with it. In a statement, her Raleigh, North Carolina spokeperson stated that Hill-Pac "has no connection to the organization conducting these robo-calls… and has never accepted any funds from this organization."

Hogwash, Hillary, hogwash. You are very worried about Barak Obama in North Carolina, and are on the warpath in a nasty way. Shame on you. I hope this news gets out there into the mass media. I was straddling the atmosphere on who I would vote for, but this has certainly made up my mind. I do not vote for liars and cheaters, thanks. My son said to me months ago, in his youthful 19 year old way, he's not voting for her, she seems like a liar. Her eyes are dishonest. This coming from a registered Democrat, who wants peace and sanity from his country. (would I have raised anyone other than, a John Lennon Jr?)

Hillary doles out a dose of hogwash to the NC state

H= Hillary and B= Barak (duh...)

*Hillary’s smart grid is a city where there is peak demand has protection against blackouts; there are plug ins for hybrids (wassup wit plug-in hybrids? Why not simply, plug in vehicles, as have already been in the past?) as well as making other green technology easier to use.

**Barak’s smart grid is referring to the grid of electrical power that connects cities where renewable energy is a part of the grid and more accessible.

They are nearly the same, even the numbers and years. My problems with the plans are as follows:

Couldn't they have been more creative? As well as, SOMEBODY is copying off someone else's test paper. I feel like a high school teacher who caught someone cheating.

Biofuels produce CO2 & take up a lot of room to grow. Stop acting like they are the answer, unless they can come up with something that is super duper presto whammo biofuel. They should only be used for mass transportation if necessary.

55 mpg as well as double the current standard for car fuel efficiency, is still pathetic. With technology even as it is today, this should be much higher in the future.

If you want to use coal, tell it like it is. It produces CO2 and unless you capture its emissions, don’t act like it’s a good thing to use it when you are trying to reduce GHG.

If you are going to promote the use of electric cars, go for it and promote completely electric ones. The hybrids produced now do just fine with recharging their own batteries and switching over to fuel. You do not need to plug them in. This is just people who obviously do not know how a bloody hybrid works, apparently, writing this stuff. Dang.

The good stuff:

100% industry responsibility for producing GHG rocks.

Nuclear plants do suck for environmental reasons, as well as, they don’t really make a profit even.

Sod the "smart grid" thing. If you are going for a better system, make the power system for the whole damn country work. And quit using corny catch phrases. (no one ever really keeps those catch phrase promises anyway, do they? Shut up.)

The real answer:

Make the oil industry pay for what it has done. It’s kinda like the cigarette companies making ciggies more addictive and then our being able to sue them for getting cancer. They lobbied for the ability to have bigger cars and SUVs. They lobbied against greener technology for many years. Make them pay for ALL the research as well as all the money needed to build greener cities, power plants, etc. They can afford it: they made more money than any other industry, what the past 2 years and running?