I never get political on my blog. Mostly, because I don't care.I was watching something on TV the other day where Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's) was visiting Congress with a bill proposal to take 15% of the military budget and rechannel it to education. Right here in our own country! Because wouldn't it be nice to use that 85% to bend the rest of the planet to our will, but be (as my friend Carrie likes to say) smarterer? I think the figure they used as 15% of the military budget was 60 million dollars. I don't know much 
about nuffin', but from my crumbly little single-mom doorstep, I have great difficulty understanding why we continue to throw trillions of dollars towards the middle east while the neighborhoods around me are becoming poorer, (and dumberer!) and crime rates edge upwards. Perhaps our own poverty is tough to see over the walls of gated communities. Maybe we should put the foreclosure signs on taller sticks. But it seems to be the same logic where they put "Please put on your own oxygen mask before assisting children or the elderly" in the plane crash instructions. I mean, if you're not breathing, how are you going to help anyone else?
Then, when I saw McCain chose Palin as his running mate, I got all excited. He's a lumberjack and he's ok - he sleeps all night and he works all day... he wears high heels, suspendies and a bra... Oh, Sarah Palin? No, I have no idea who that is. I read a little. She seems like a good ol' girl. Governor. No national or international experience, but she's got charisma, which seems to be the same complaint about Obama. Seemed a little stunned when they called her name... Anti-abortion. NRA member. (Hey, have we medically confirmed that she has a vagina? I'm just askin'.) Just had her last baby 4 months ago. Special needs. As a mom, I just have to wonder, and again, please bear with me, I'm just an ignorant and uneducated single mother, but what kind of life are you saving your fetus for if you take off and run for VP when the kid is 4 months old? I mean, when Malena was 4 months old, I sort of felt like she... needed me.
And it's not like Americans can't be swayed by charisma. I have a total girl crush on Michelle Obama. I don't know how many other people shrug at the whole electoral process knowing that the entire thing is manipulated, strategized, positioned, and just trying to get into your pants, but I'm just sick of the whole damned thing. You wouldn't hit a man in glasses, would you? Or a 72 year old man shielding himself with a mother of a child with Down Syndrome? At least Pappy and the womenfolk are stepping up to the plate now that they've sent all the able-bodied men to battle.
But stop teasing her for being pretty. Like we're only interested in candidates who look like George Washington. She can't help it, she's just drawn that way. I can't help it either.
PTA, here I come. Next stop, total world domination.
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I vote for Mary....
Trig Palin is not a fetus and he has a father living with him. Nobody would be asking this question if Obama had a special needs child. They would just be using it as another reason he is the next messiah.
I don't care what Sarah Palin *looks* like. I agree with her, as much as that might horrify you. And if you think that makes me an idiot, then please, be like all of the other Obama supporter that I know and scream it far and wide. That'll be sure to win you the election.
I'm aware he's not a fetus, Adrianne, the words were "what kind of life are you saving your fetus for". I was referring to her anti-abortion position. You’re right, I wouldn’t be asking that question of any male candidate with a 4-month old child. When men can breastfeed, I probably will. Check back with me.
You're perfectly entitled to agree with Sarah Palin, and I know enough about your brain to know the word "idiot" would never apply.
I'm not really sure where in my blog it states that I'm an Obama supporter. Most importantly, however, I agree with his positions on making education in our country a bigger priority, because I don't feel like we are ever fully empowered until our children are better educated and parents aren't afraid to send their children to public schools. Me, for example. I don't believe our military personnel are properly funded, or that returning vets receive the care and support that they deserve, and I believe in an overhaul of the current system, like Obama does. I believe in his support for low-income senior citizens, since I have two of them, and an overhaul of NAFTA. Rewarding companies that employ American workers instead of sending jobs overseas is also important to me, as someone who spends 12 hours a day telecommuting. I believe in not turning away people without health insurance. It’s happened to me. And I believe in reproductive choice. Because it’s my body. Mc Cain, who supports the 2nd Amendment and a reversal of Roe v. Wade, would never have my vote. I don’t support the 2nd Amendment, as someone who’s mother was shot and killed when I was two years old. Perhaps that’s more of a sentimental reason than a scientific exploration of our need for personal weaponry, but that’s just what’s in my heart. I’ll be voting Democrat, as I always do, and I can’t criticize how you vote – you have to go with what’s in your heart. And that’s just how it goes.
I don’t think he’s the next Messiah. He’s not even Jewish.
However, if I make jokes about Sarah Palin’s appearance, it’s because this is a blog. And in my tiny little piece of the universe, all I really care about are the things that make me giggle.
You couldn't be more "righter."
Stephanie agrees with Mary, Carrie And Moy!!!!
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