Healthcare is inching closer

Even though the people don't want it. 59% of those who have an opinion don't want THIS reform. Most people don't argue that we need reform it's just the costly reform we're getting that's the issue. After this we're going to need perpetual reform for the next few decades to clean up this mess. Even with the final vote nearing its ugly head there will be more debate and votes in our future. This isn't over. Ugh.

http://www.seattlepi.com/politico/413527_politico30894.html?source=mypi0

Remember, congress does makes mistakes.

But, no need to worry. I'm sure Palin will fix it all in 2012.

One problem with passing legislation the people don't want is it doesn't help you get re-elected. Especially when the taxes start NOW and the benefits don't start until way after any second term would begin. In 2012 the people who are un-insured today will still be un-insured and will be wondering where their healthcare is. A "smart" opponent running against our rookie President will use this to their advantage and get a nice giant White House to move into in January 2013.

Why I Want Obamacare to Pass

1. It’s a bad, bad plan.
2. It’ll cost trillions of dollars and fail miserably
3. The republicans would never pass any kind of universal healthcare on their own
4. Due to its failures and cost overruns the democrats will lose control of the congress and white house by 2012
5. Since it’ll already be in place when the republicans take over control again they’ll have no choice but to fix it as going back to the current fiasco of a system won’t be an option
6. By 2016 President Palin will announce that the healthcare system has been fixed just before her successful re-election campaign
7. The American Healthcare plan will be the model for the new healthcare plan announced by the newly elected President of Kenya - Barack Obama

Mainstream/Misleading Media

According to the mainstream media’s picking on the Conservatives, President Bush, and Sarah Palin I would’ve thought the majority of the country was Pro-Choice and every Pro-Lifer was some right-wing nut job. My guess would’ve been 75% Pro-Choice and only 25% Pro-Life. According to polls by the right-leaning Fox news and the left-leaning CNN/Gallup that is not true. Interestingly both polls resulted in almost the exact numbers.

The Fox poll has it 49% of Americans are Pro-Life, 43% are Pro-Choice and 8% are undecided.

CNN/Gallup has it 51% of Americans are Pro-Life, 42% or Pro-Choice and 7% are undecided.

Thus, if you weed out the brainless undecided’s it’d be 53-47 in favor of Pro-Life for the Fox poll and 55-45 in favor of Pro-Life for CNN/Gallup. Wow! The majority of people with brain enough to pick a side are Pro-Life. This is not accurately depicted by the mainstream media that leads one to believe only a few right-wing crazies are Pro-Lifer’s and if you’re not a Pro-Choicer then you’re a crazy unenlightened person too.

Fox News Poll

CNN/Gallup Poll

EXPERIENCE (Is it Important?)

There has been a lot of TV and Internet advertisements from both presidential candidates about their competency to be President based on their experience. Senator McCain has been in the Senate for over 25 years while Senator Obama has been in the Senate for about 3 years and two of those he has spent running for President.

Is Experience really that important? Well to put this question into perspective lets up look at this in a much lower level. When a working class person, such as myself, begins looking for a job, the first thing on the potential Employer’s list of requirements is how much and what kind of Experience do you bring to the table. Most of the job openings that I have looked at require at least 5 to 7 years of Experience. That Experience must also be geared toward the type of work that will be performed. A college professor with 20 years of Experience teaching Family Law does not qualify him to be a Criminal Defense Lawyer.

A college student who just graduated with an MBA does not qualify that person to be a CEO of a major corporation. Anyone who is at the top or who is on their way to the top of any company had to start at the bottom first.

So…why are many Americans so willing to put a Junior Senator from Illinois with zero experience into the White House. Senator Obama has never run a business, never governed a city, big or small, never had to work with unions and never had to work with both parties to come to a compromise on a piece of legislation. Only Mayors and Governors have to do it all. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has done all of this and much more. She is more qualified to be President than the Presidential candidates themselves.

Again, is Experience Important? Every job that I have applied for requires it. Every hiring manager that I have every talked to questioned me about my experience. Every board of directors for every corporation in America demands it before hiring a CEO and every American who holds stock for any corporation in America would be appalled if they found out that the board members had zero Experience in running a corporation.

Okay, America, here is the choice everyone who votes must make. Vote for the candidate with the Experience to run America or vote for the candidate of Change, Senator Obama with no Experience.

The way I see it, if Senator Obama becomes the next President and your job is lost, when you are talking to a hiring manager and that person asks you about your Experience in that particular field and you say that you don’t have any, tell that manager that you should be hired anyway because after all, you did vote for Senator Obama and he had no Experience either.

The Audacity of Bad Judgment

At the Republican Convention Sarah Palin ad libbed a joke in response to audience cheers from Alaska women: "You know what the difference is between a hockey mom and a pit bull?" she asked, pausing perfectly. "Lipstick!" Since then there have been signs at the McCain/Palin rally's along the same lines stating "Read My Lipstick" and so forth with the "lipstick" theme. Sarah Palin, as far as we know, is the only one of the four candidates that wears lipstick on a regular basis (although I have my suspicions about Biden). Thus, the word "lipstick" is hers in this Presidential Campaign.

Yesterday, after commenting on the Republicans policies (or lack thereof), Senator Barack Obama punctuated his comments with the line "You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig". Granted this is a very old line used to imply that no matter how much you pretty up something it doesn't change what it is. An ugly pig is still a pig and a bad policy is still a bad policy.

John McCain has used a similar line in the past about wrestling with pigs. When asked about Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean's criticism of him as "a blatant opportunist'' McCain replied that he doesn't want to "go down" to that level and "I think it was Bob Dole, you know, that said you don’t want to get into a wrestling match with a pig, You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” This was an analogy about sinking to a low level rather than actually calling anyone a name.

Even IF Obama didn't intend to call Sarah Palin a pig was it a good idea to exercise bad judgment and use a line that can be construed as if he was calling Sarah Palin a pig? Even IF McCain was calling Howard Dean a "pig" is it a good idea to sink to the same low level and call the most popular Governor in the United States a "pig"? Is sinking to lower levels going to get us the change we need in Washington?

Awhile back Barack Obama convinced many people that while he lacked experience he would make up for it with good judgment. I try to pick out the rare things he says that I agree with in an attempt to accept him as our President should he win in November but then he goes and does silly childish things like this. When is this "good judgment" going to kick in? It seems he also has a lack of experience with GOOD judgment as well.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080910.htm

Dem Ticket Upside Down

The Presidential tickets seem to be upside down. Joe Biden is missing and Barack Obama is playing the Vice Presidential attack dog role by calling Sarah Palin a liar. Why is the Presidential candidate of one party calling the others Vice Presidential choice a liar? Where's Joey Biden? Attacking the other candidates is the Vice Presidential candidates role. John McCain is a little quieter recently too. It seems this election is suddenly Barack Obama versus Sarah Palin and both are acting like Vice Presidential candidates. Except only one of them truly is a Vice Presidential candidate.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/09/obama-accuses-maverick/

Palin Power

Wow, a lot is being made of a speech writer helping write Sarah Palin’s speech last night. Is it because she’s a woman that they’re picking on her? The men don’t write 100% of their own speeches either. Could ANY speech writer do all the research necessary to include all her personal items and accomplishments WITHOUT her being involved? No way.

Does anybody think that any of these politicians write their own speeches? It’s extremely rare. I think it was Chris Mathews (the news guy) who was a speech writer for both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Even Jerry Lewis helped JFK with his speeches during JFK’s presidential run. JFK would send him speeches and ask Jerry Lewis to make them more entertaining.

Sarah Palin's speech was obviously exceptionally written, genuinely honest and superbly delivered or they’d have more to pick on than just WHO wrote it.

Ironic Democrat Contradictions

Isn’t it ironic that the Democratic Party is the one upset most about Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter being pregnant (she’ll be 18 in October)? Isn’t this the party that promotes Women and Women’s rights the most? Over 55% of the Democratic Party is Women. This is the party that supports a Woman’s right to choose. This is the party that says Women CAN juggle work and family successfully. This is the party that says Women don’t have to be married to raise a family. This is the party that demands equal pay for Women. Would these pro-choice Democrats prefer that she had an abortion a few months ago or wait a couple of more months to jam a tube in its head during birth and suck its brains out? Militant Pro-choicers do tend to forget that LIFE is one of the choices.

Are they saying that Sarah Palin is a bad parent because she couldn’t manage to control a teenage girl 100% of the time? Even parents who are home all the time become pre-mature grandparents. Are they aware there’s are over 750,000 pregnant teenagers in America right now? Are they ALL the product of bad parenting? Are these teenagers not responsible at all for their own actions? With parents, schools, and even TV shows promoting safe sex is it really safe to assume there’s even one pregnant teenage girl who had absolutely no idea pregnancy was possible?

To insinuate she’s a bad parent because of her daughter’s personal actions is irresponsible. I’m sure when Ted Bundy got into the University of Washington his friends and family congratulated his parents for doing such a good job of raising this intelligent well-behaved young man. At what point did THEY become bad parents? Teenagers are going to be teenagers. All a parent can do is teach them what they can. If a teenager chooses to ignore the warnings then that’s not the parents fault. That’s where personal responsibility comes into play.