Politics

I don’t think Religion has an place in politics and what I mean by that is that leaders shouldn’t be influenced by it, nor should they look at any of our foreign policy issues as based on what it says in that book. My grandfather was a methodist minister his entire life, and he was very committed to that mission. In my entire life, I can’t remember him approaching me and trying to lay the religion on me. Instead, he proved to me what Religion really is, and should be: a rule book on how to be compassionate. When he was in his 70’s, he was still delivering meals to the needy, as part of the Church program he ran. This to me, is religion and that’s why I think this political ad is true and will be effective.

I’m sitting here watching one of my favorite shows, Bill Maher’s “Real Time” on HBO and when I see Andrew Sullivan speak, my blood starts boiling. In case you don’t know who Andrew Sullivan is, I really had no knowledge of him prior to seeing him on the round table of Maher’s show either.What I do know is that he was on the show years ago and was for the Iraq War and somehow he thinks his changing his mind on it is some kind of sign of his greatness - it’s not.

You do have to wonder whether Bush and his fellow gang of crooks and thieves just figure that at this point nobody’s paying any attention, because if they were, blow backs would have occurred already. In light of that I guess it’s not surprising that Bush comes out and accuses Russia of striking back too hard on Georgia. Where he gets the nerve to accuse anyone of anything is beyond me quite frankly but I digress.

John McCain admitted himself that he needed to be “educated” on the economy. Not exactly what I would call reassuring when you consider that the economy is one of the most important issues to most voters. It’s safe to say that most people actually consider the economy and the War in Iraq as the most important issues overall. McCain already admitted that he basically is in the dark on the economy, but why is it that he repeatedly proves that he’s also rather clueless when it comes to the War? He has to have turncoat Lieberman correct him, as even Fox News reported themselves here. Aside from getting Shias and Sunis mixed up, he gets entire time lines wrong and then claims it’s “common knowledge” that the Shia uprising occurred after the beginning of the surge. Watch Jack Cafferty seriously put everything McCain stands for in question in the next video clip. What kind of a dummy is John McCain anyway? Would you campaign for a party that annihilated you politically just 8 years earlier?

As recently reported in this survey, 12% of Americans think that Obama is a muslim. Since there was never information about him available before the Presidential primary season, it’s very easy to track the origin of the misinformation.- The GOP. Most everything that was publicized negatively about Barack, was largely exaggerated and misinterpreted. I’m at the point where I’m not sure how much sense it makes to talk about this issue with a large part of this country, due to their complete lack of information on the topic and ultimately their refusal to educate themselves independently of what they already know.

Mark Sanford, a McCain supporter was on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer where he was asked to point out some key differences between McCain and Bush. I personally wouldn’t want this guy getting on TV for me, but then again I’m not a Republican Strategist so what do I know?

Yeah, it sucks to be on TV and to draw a blank on something you should be able to cite blindly.

If you have followed US foreign policy after WWII you will notice that are interventionist strategies are driven by one thing: economic interest. That’s a very nice way of saying Slavery, in the Millennium we live in. Things have become more subtle today, and where people don’t walk around in chains that anyone else could see, the same situation does exist today. The United States already tried to take over Iran as I’ve mentioned in this article and it’s common knowledge that the United States and Europe have always been keen on seizing the country’s asset as part of our global campaign of economic enslavement.

What can I say, I work a full time job and maintain way too many things outside of work, the result being that I’m falling more and more behind on my ranting. There’s certainly no shortage in items I could get myself worked up to the point of exhaustion.

Wow I think I totally missed everything by Cafferty up to now. I never really paid attention to him since I don’t really pay attention to most talking heads on TV but man he must really not care about this paycheck or have tenure, I’m not sure.