The Lee Word Side

Here we are, still two months away from the national election and I’ve already reached my Political Bullshit Quota. Never have I seen so much shit being served-up than what we’re being feed this election; from both parties. Democrats would have us believe that Barack is another Jack Kennedy, a political wiz kid, the reincarnated Martin Luther King. He isn’t. He’s just a junior Congressman from Illinois that has very little international political experience. He’s handsome, personable, and a good orator, but he’s unproven as a leader. Not to be outdone, the Republicans operate as we Americans are stupid, that we can’t see that McCain is just a Bush-lite, that he isn’t a “maverick,” and that he isn’t “his own man.” McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for his Vice Presidential running mate is stupefying. Is she suppose to be the bait that will entice Hillary Clinton’s female base over to the dark side? Does McCain think so little of women that he thinks that they won’t notice, or care about the differences between Palin and Clinton? Or that we won’t see that their political and social beliefs are in direct opposition? After all, it’s just replacing one woman for another, right?
And what’s with this “unwed-pregnant seventeen year old daughter mess?” If this situation were reversed and it was Barack’s daughter who was pregnant the Republicans would be all over this. But because it has happened to them it’s now considered as something that’s wholesome, something that exemplifies Christian and family values, and it’s pro-life. You can call it whatever you want, but she’s still seventeen, still unwed, and she’s pregnant. And as much as we would like to believe that this shouldn’t matter, that a candidate’s family is “off limits,” it just isn’t so. Try asking someone from Kansas or Missouri what they think about this. You know what answer you’ll get. What ever happened to the belief in abstinence that the Republicans were peddling? More importantly, what happened to all the money, my money, that the federal government spent on abstinence programs? Didn’t work too well, did they? Abstinence doesn’t work. But you know what does work? CONDOMS, that’s what works.
Somehow between now and election day I’ve got to find a way to weave my way through all this bullshit or I’ll go crazy. Oh hell, who am I trying to kid, I passed going crazy miles ago. Bring it on, I’ve got my waders on.

Ciao