Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Election Confusion
I got this in an email from the Wells family and I think it speaks alot of truth.
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight....
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Sarah Palin
Honestly.
When John McCain was about to announce his running mate I really thought he was going to go with Romney or Liberman. Pawlenty maybe, and at a stretch Jindal or Crist.
But no, we got this woman.
Of course no one knew who she is and I was genuinely surprised.
She is the Governor of a Red State with only 3 electoral votes. She has no foreign policy experience, has never been on the national scene, and in under indictment. Now, not only has McCain lost his experience argument against Obama, now he has lost his celebrity argument. McCain had a hard time filling rooms with his appearences. Now he has people lined up around the block. Are people actually going to vote for him now just because this woman is his VP.
The campaign is now releasing full blown lies and are defending themselves with them. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere when she said she wasn't. The cook she said she fired still works for them. Her private jet was not sold on Ebay.
Now, the campaign is actually saying that Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.
This is so rediculous that if I think about it too long I pretty sure my head will explode like that guy in Scanners. What I worry about, is that this woman could actually be our next Vice President. Even though Barack Obama has not been on the national scene that long, he has written two books on his life and the kitchen sink has come out since he started his campaign. We know nothing about this woman and what will come out after she gets the job. Do people realize that she supported having rape victims pay for there medical examinations. She goes to a church where they speak in tongues and has spoken from the pulpit within the last 4 months, and yet people give Obama crap because the Minister he knows said stupid crap from the pulpit. There is just so much crap that has come out in the last three weeks that it is ridiculous.
I haven't even mentioned that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Now, I know that kids need to be left out of the picture. But, I feel children are the best reflection of a person parenting, and when this woman is trying to show that we need abstinence-only education and yet her own daughter gets knocked up in high school. I find a problem with that.
This woman is not what America needs right now.
When John McCain was about to announce his running mate I really thought he was going to go with Romney or Liberman. Pawlenty maybe, and at a stretch Jindal or Crist.
But no, we got this woman.
Of course no one knew who she is and I was genuinely surprised.
She is the Governor of a Red State with only 3 electoral votes. She has no foreign policy experience, has never been on the national scene, and in under indictment. Now, not only has McCain lost his experience argument against Obama, now he has lost his celebrity argument. McCain had a hard time filling rooms with his appearences. Now he has people lined up around the block. Are people actually going to vote for him now just because this woman is his VP.
The campaign is now releasing full blown lies and are defending themselves with them. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere when she said she wasn't. The cook she said she fired still works for them. Her private jet was not sold on Ebay.
Now, the campaign is actually saying that Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.
This is so rediculous that if I think about it too long I pretty sure my head will explode like that guy in Scanners. What I worry about, is that this woman could actually be our next Vice President. Even though Barack Obama has not been on the national scene that long, he has written two books on his life and the kitchen sink has come out since he started his campaign. We know nothing about this woman and what will come out after she gets the job. Do people realize that she supported having rape victims pay for there medical examinations. She goes to a church where they speak in tongues and has spoken from the pulpit within the last 4 months, and yet people give Obama crap because the Minister he knows said stupid crap from the pulpit. There is just so much crap that has come out in the last three weeks that it is ridiculous.
I haven't even mentioned that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Now, I know that kids need to be left out of the picture. But, I feel children are the best reflection of a person parenting, and when this woman is trying to show that we need abstinence-only education and yet her own daughter gets knocked up in high school. I find a problem with that.
This woman is not what America needs right now.
Jill Biden
So I took a break from Blogging for the summer but now I'm back with a new picture for the Potato collection. Our future Second Lady, Jill Biden. Of course her husband Joe did not take a potato picture, but I guess I'll vote for him anyway.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton pt 2
The morning after.
Okay, so you pulled threw with Indiana, but you were blown out of the water in North Carolina. And now, this morning, you say you will not back down and have put 6 million dollars of your own money into your campaign. Adding the 5 million you already put in, that makes 11 million dollars of your money that you have put into your campaign. That would be like repainting the Titanic after it already struck the Iceburg. You know what I could do with 11 million dollars? I would but the copyright to Mr. Potato Head, and produce Andy Green Mr. Potato Heads. Barack Obama is barely worth 1 million dollars, and you have the balls to call him an elitist.
You have already passed your mark to back down with grace. You have started a schism within the party that will need from now until to November to heal.
What I find funny, is that you sent your little carrot, Bill, into North Carolina to even shake hands with the voters going to the polls, and you still lost by almost twenty percent. You are now almost to the point where the Superdelegates can't even save you.
Now where is John McCain during all of this. He is giving speeches and gathering support like a Presidential Canidate. Trying to prove he is the best one for Republicans. You have Republicans voting for you so that John McCain has a better chance in November. If that is not a reason to drop out, I don't know what else is.
Talk to you soon
Andy Green
Okay, so you pulled threw with Indiana, but you were blown out of the water in North Carolina. And now, this morning, you say you will not back down and have put 6 million dollars of your own money into your campaign. Adding the 5 million you already put in, that makes 11 million dollars of your money that you have put into your campaign. That would be like repainting the Titanic after it already struck the Iceburg. You know what I could do with 11 million dollars? I would but the copyright to Mr. Potato Head, and produce Andy Green Mr. Potato Heads. Barack Obama is barely worth 1 million dollars, and you have the balls to call him an elitist.
You have already passed your mark to back down with grace. You have started a schism within the party that will need from now until to November to heal.
What I find funny, is that you sent your little carrot, Bill, into North Carolina to even shake hands with the voters going to the polls, and you still lost by almost twenty percent. You are now almost to the point where the Superdelegates can't even save you.
Now where is John McCain during all of this. He is giving speeches and gathering support like a Presidential Canidate. Trying to prove he is the best one for Republicans. You have Republicans voting for you so that John McCain has a better chance in November. If that is not a reason to drop out, I don't know what else is.
Talk to you soon
Andy Green
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
Hi. I don't know if you remember me, but we met at an event in Clinton, Iowa. You took a photo with my Mr. Potato Head. Anyway...
Today is a big day for you. Indiana and North Carolina are both going to the polls to try and deciede between you and Sen. Obama. So far, Sen. Obama is ahead in the polls and you have been trying to close the gap. The problem is, is that Indiana and North Carolina are not on the list of the states that you have labeled the "Big States" that you want to be President of. Hillary Clinton, President of the Big States. Growing up in Iowa, I have not been priveledged to grow up in a big state, and according to you, don't know what I'm doing when it comes to politics. Yet, you and your competitors spent a year here campaigning. We mattered to you until you came in third.
I just have a couple things I would like to address with you. First, and I think everyone wants to know, after the Texas/Ohio primaries you were told that it was not possible for you to get the nomination even if you were to win the rest of the states and have Michigan and Florida reinstated. Now, John Edwards knew when it was he time to back out and help the party. Even Mitt Romney knew when to back out to help his party. They both still had a little bit of a chance when they backed out. You have been told there is no way, and yet you have stayed in, with noticeible divide in the party. You have made viscious attacks agaist Sen. Obama and have played McCain's game for him. In an election the Republicans have handed you, you have turned that around. Now you make up some BS excuse about how you want the people to vote and state their opinion. Yet, you know that in the long run, it will still come out that more people want Sen. Obama to be President.
One of my biggest problems with your campaign is the insistance that the delegates from Michigan and Florida need to be reinstated. First of all, you didn't follow the rules and put your name on the ballot when none of the other canidates would. Now you have put up a big fuss about how they need to count, and you know that if the tables were turned you would be against it. And now every time you release a delegate count or vote count you include those votes, and you are the only people that do. You need to lay off of it and actually follow the rules. I'm sorry, but the rules do apply to the Clinton family.
This is only the first letter Mrs. Clinton. More are going to follow.
Andy Green
Today is a big day for you. Indiana and North Carolina are both going to the polls to try and deciede between you and Sen. Obama. So far, Sen. Obama is ahead in the polls and you have been trying to close the gap. The problem is, is that Indiana and North Carolina are not on the list of the states that you have labeled the "Big States" that you want to be President of. Hillary Clinton, President of the Big States. Growing up in Iowa, I have not been priveledged to grow up in a big state, and according to you, don't know what I'm doing when it comes to politics. Yet, you and your competitors spent a year here campaigning. We mattered to you until you came in third.
I just have a couple things I would like to address with you. First, and I think everyone wants to know, after the Texas/Ohio primaries you were told that it was not possible for you to get the nomination even if you were to win the rest of the states and have Michigan and Florida reinstated. Now, John Edwards knew when it was he time to back out and help the party. Even Mitt Romney knew when to back out to help his party. They both still had a little bit of a chance when they backed out. You have been told there is no way, and yet you have stayed in, with noticeible divide in the party. You have made viscious attacks agaist Sen. Obama and have played McCain's game for him. In an election the Republicans have handed you, you have turned that around. Now you make up some BS excuse about how you want the people to vote and state their opinion. Yet, you know that in the long run, it will still come out that more people want Sen. Obama to be President.
One of my biggest problems with your campaign is the insistance that the delegates from Michigan and Florida need to be reinstated. First of all, you didn't follow the rules and put your name on the ballot when none of the other canidates would. Now you have put up a big fuss about how they need to count, and you know that if the tables were turned you would be against it. And now every time you release a delegate count or vote count you include those votes, and you are the only people that do. You need to lay off of it and actually follow the rules. I'm sorry, but the rules do apply to the Clinton family.
This is only the first letter Mrs. Clinton. More are going to follow.
Andy Green
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