It's not Just McCain That's "Out of Touch"...

...it's (apparently) his whole campaign!

In this article, the following is stated:

Holtz-Eakin also defended McCain's assertions about the fundamentals of the U.S. economy being strong and cited the Republican presidential candidate's work on the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees telecommunications, as part of his qualifications to lead the country through a financial crisis.

"You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," Holtz-Eakin told reporters while holding up a Blackberry device.

Thanks Mr. Holtz-Eakin. Now I know who to blame for the mess that is this country's telco "market". Dominated by a few ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) that are more interested in squeezing profit out of their current infrastructure than updating it for 21st. century needs. A few years ago we ranked near the top in broadband speed. Now we sit at an appalling 15th!


Why does this matter? Well, not only is the internet the future of commerce, but the future is already here and we are falling behind...far behind!

Get a clue! Stop taking credit and asking for laurels where shame would be more appropriate!

John McCain: Serial Liar

Or rather, John McCain's campaign is based on a series of lies. Negative campaigning gets McCain nowhere, with me, but apparently a long ways with a fair portion of the U.S.

It's not surprising, though it is disappointing.

GOP Tricket...a Bit Difficult to Swallow.

This is what the GOP is asking you to believe:

"I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

• Grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents: you're "exotic, different".
• Grow up in Alaska, eating mooseburgers: a quintessential American story.

• 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: you are unstable.
• Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating: you're well grounded.

• 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.
• 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: you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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 your 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.

OK, much clearer now."

If you actually believe the GOP's crap: you need to read more or, perhaps, go back to school.

This guy could be my father...

Here's a quote I found in a comment on a "The Moderate Voice" posting.

The thing that distresses me most about Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain is that they appear to be trying to deceive the public into voting for them, or more accurately, against Obama. They lie openly about Obama's policy proposals and about their own histories. They know that the facts will contradict them, indeed that video footage of their own words will contradict them, but calculate that the public will buy their talking points without heeding other sources of information. The calculation works, because most do not have the time or depth of interest to dig into every statement.

Most cynically of all, their campaign openly supports the idea of making the race for the presidency a popularity contest rather than a decision based on the issues. They seek to raise their positives while raising their opponent's negatives, with no regard for the fact that their policies are anti-democratic; that is, they are attempting to scare voters into voting against their own clear personal interests, as well as those of their children.

And so, we boomers, and those older than us, will exit the scene leaving to our children a mountain of debt and a degraded planet. To my own son, to your children and all others, I am truly sorry. I have tried my entire adult life to support those who would take us in a different direction.

Credit to GreenDreams.

Republican Convention News.

Palin a Big Government Republican.

Looks like Palin, in addition to being another spend-and-spend, big government Republican, is also intolerant to opinions that differ from her own. That sounds familiar, doesn't it?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp

If McCain/Palin get elected, it will just confirm my belief that the US is chock full of a bunch of sub-par thinkers.

Palin just another right-wing Nut Job

While Sarah Palin has achieved some great success in Alaska, and is a smart woman. She is not a good speaker, and, most definitely, not an intellectual. If there's any truth to the rumors of her "book banning" as mayor of a small town in Alaska, then she flat out scares me. Based on my direct exposure (so far), she certainly doesn't have the temperament to lead our country. The Republican negative-spin machine has (once again) hit full steam and, (once again) they've lost my vote.

Additionally, in theme with my previous post, I cannot vote for another "common man" appeasing ticket. I don't want someone like myself leading the country, I want someone decidedly _better_ than myself!