ok, i’ll stop writing about politics for a while, but let’s just clear up some
things.
for a start, mccain and obama’s ‘missed votes’ in the current term:
according to the washington post:
mccain missed 407 votes in the current term
obama missed 290 votes in the current term.
let’s move on, ok? obama’s not a muslim. there’s nothing wrong with being
a muslim, but obama’s not a muslim. he was brought up christian and was
married in a christian church and his kids were baptised in a christian church
and he talks often about his christianity.
again, if he were a muslim it’d be no big deal to me, personally, but he’s a christian.
john mccain is on wife #2. he divorced his current wife after she had an accident.
he admits that he was cheating on wife #1 with wife #2 when wife #1 was in the hospital.
obama is on wife #1.
this disturbs me: john mccain called his wife a cunt. oops, to quote senator mccain, ‘a cunt’. he lost his temper
in public and was recorded saying to his wife, ‘at least i don’t plaster on the makeup
like a trollop, you cunt.’ this is the same wife who has bought him his homes and lets
him use her private planes.
(note, ‘trollop’ is ye olde english for ‘whore’).
people talk about obama’s experience being similar to sarah palin.
well, obama was the head of the harvard law review, then he was a civil rights
lawyer and a community organizer in chicago, then he spent 7 years in the illinois
state senate. now he is currently serving his first term in d.c as a senator from illinois.
sarah pallin was a runner up in the miss alaska beauty contest, a member of the pta, a member of the wallis chamber of commerce(pop. 5,000),
the mayor of wallis(pop. 5,000), and is currently in her first term as governor of alaska.
political discourse doesn’t need to be rancorous(unless it’s funny).
it does sort of drive me crazy when republicans spout un-truths in order to criticize
obama(‘he’s a muslim and a socialist!’…again, he’s neither).
if you disagree with someone’s political philosophy, fine, then don’t vote for them.
but spreading lies and mistruths doesn’t end up serving anyone very well, especially
when the mistruths are so egregiously wrong.
mccain is more conservative, obama’s more liberal. mccain is anti-choice, obama
is pro-choice. mccain has said that he could see u.s troops being in iraq for 100 years,
obama wants to bring them home sooner. mccain wants to make bush’s tax cuts(which
primarily benefit the wealthy)permanent, and obama wants to cut taxes for the middle
class and the poor and raise taxes for the wealthy. mccain voted against legislation
that would help women earn equal pay, obama voted for legislation that would help
women earn equal pay. and so on.
you find the candidate you agree with and you vote for them. if you feel strongly you give
money to their campaign and maybe try to talk other people into voting for him/her.
spreading mis-truths about the candidate you disagree with just makes you look silly and ends up cheapening the debate.
ok, time for a break from politics.
i just ask that you at least be civil with each other(or be funny. if you’re going to be an asshole
at least be a funny asshole. same thing goes with being wrong. if you’re going
to be wrong, at least entertain us in your wrong-ness. something like: ‘obama wears
an upside down nazi flag pin made from the sweat of the devil! and his full name is actually ‘barack hussein
baby-eater mussolini witchcraft burn-the-flag socialist black helicopter herpes obama’. see, that would be funny.
if you’re going to be wrong or an asshole, be a wrong, funny asshole).
oh, and thanks for coming to wembley tonight if you came to wembley.
and then after wembley i dj’ed at re-tox(which is an awesome name for a night)in east
london. that was fun.
moby