More talking, less bombing.

Recently, McCain boasted about how it's unwise to talk to dictators like Kim Jong-Il, especially since we've received video of North Koreans visiting a nuclear site in Syria which hold technology virtually identical to plutonium technology that the North Koreans use.

I find it personally repulsive that we should be as ignorant to "Give the hand" to other sovereign nations in the world. This is actually a relatively new phenomenon in American politics...not talking to our enemies.

Didn't we once talk to Stalin? You know, we were once allies with him, and worked on treaties at the end of WWII with him. We talked to other leaders in Kremlin after Stalin. And you know what came after that? Not one hot war did we fight directly with the USSR. It was a Cold War, a war of words and ideas. Which, yes, led to other lesser hot wars (Vietnam, Korea). But we didn't go into an all out war.

It's ridiculous to claim that by simply talking to someone it inherently makes you week, and gives them credibility. Grow up. Isn't that what we're taught as children? Talk issues out, don't use fists. It's amazing that our foreign policy is based on an immature child's mentality.

"Without naming Obama, McCain said those who would meet with a leader like
Kim "should explain to the American people how talking unconditionally to
dictators like Kim Jong-il in the aftermath of recent disclosures advances
American interests."-Reuters

Let's see, how can talking to people about our will, advance our interest? Well, wouldn't talking to them express our interest? Wouldn't that explain to them our side, and hopefully persuade them to do such? What rubbish.

Oh, and Mrs.-wannabe-republican added this:

"Clinton previously attacked Obama's promise to talk to troublesome foreign
leaders without preconditions as naive, but the Illinois senator has made his
willingness to speak to both allies and enemies a centerpiece of his call for a
new approach to diplomacy and governing."-Reuters

Naive? Someone who actually wants to take part in the World's issues, and deal with it directly, instead of through associates hand picked to do your own bidding? Wow, that's naive.

Anyway, people need to grow up....and talk.

Obama and his pastor.

So, the big thing right now is about Obama's pastor at Trinity Church and his comments supposedly bashing America. Let me copy and paste what he said exactly:

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York, and we never batted an eye,”
...
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is brought right back in our own front yards.”

And then a little bit later in the sermon, he states:

“No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!”

Now, the last statement is a bit overboard, but I believe he's just making a point, but I'll hit on that in a bit.

70,000 people died when we dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 40,000 died when we dropped it on Nagasaki three days later. Instantaneously, over 100,000 human beings, civilians and military personnel alike, died.

3,500 civilians died on September 11th, 2001.

Now, I am in no means whatsoever, negating the deaths of the people on 9/11. I repeat, I'm not negating it, I'm merely using them for comparison.

America doesn't have the moral high ground when it comes to killing civilians, so I understand where Wright is coming from with this one. It was okay when we killed all those innocents in WWII, but it's practically the end of the world when we're attacked on our own soil. All this is merely stating that the U.S. has it's hands bloody from time to time, and it's an accurate accusation to say so. So I'm not sure why all this crap has been raised by him. He's saying that we should take a good look in the mirror, before criticizing others for less.

But that's just another thing for conservocraps to go crazy over.

I honestly don't care what a pastor of Obama's said, because, simply, that's not Obama. Obama is his own person. Just because he listens to someone preach, doesn't mean he agrees with every single thing he says. So, it's time to grow up people.

Hijab=Muslim?

Recently, pictures of Barack Obama have been buzzing around the Internet. In these photographs Obama is standing in front of a Somali elder, dressed in some Somali traditional clothing. Notice how he’s still dressed in his Polo and Khaki pants. (See Below)

Of course, people are going hysterical over these photos. Leave it to the right-wing spin machine to label this as proof that he’s a Muslim. I suppose that Condoleezza Rice is a Muslim in disguise as well?

Or, Laura Bush, the First Lady?

It’s honestly time to quit the racist slurs against Obama. If Obama is a Muslim for putting on the ceremonial dress that the natives of Somalia gave him, then shouldn’t Rice or Mrs. Bush be labeled as such? It’s all about respect, as Rice and Mrs. Bush has. When you’re in someone’s country, you pay respect to their customs and cultures, which is all that Obama did. So it’s time to shut the hell up, and grow up.

Also, enough with the “Obama” rhymes with “Osama”, which means that he cannot be President. Again, grow up. If you’re judging him because his name SOUNDS like (His name isn’t even Osama, it just rhymes) Osama, then you need to go back to Middle School where shit like that used to matter. As well as the OMG HIS NAME IS HUSSEIN! I. Don’t. Care. His name could be Osama Bin Laden, and I would still vote for him. He is his own person. It’s just his name. Grow up, and judge people on who they are, not because they sound like other people.

Ralph Nader, Bah.

While, I do agree with many things that Ralph Nader says and stands for, I cannot believe that he is running for President yet again. I'm not sure what exactly he runs for, because I'm sure he knows he won't become President, as well as the rest of us.

I'm so paranoid that it's going to come down like it did in 2000, that had Nader not ran, and all or at least a majority of his votes went to Gore, then the world would be a totally different place.

My Endorsement: Obama.

So, I've officially switched my support to Barack Obama. I voted for him the Virginia primary recently. Here are the main reasons I now support him.

1) He's Black
2) He's a Muslim
3) He belongs to a church that preaches against da white man.
4) He's a man


But seriously, seeing as I'm not a racist and intolerable prick, I support him for substance. I support Obama because he's the next generation of politics. He's clean and sharp, to quote Joe Biden. He can actually do a speech on the spot, and not screw it all up. Yes, he speaks of ideals. But they are new ideals. People like to point out that. "He's only ideals, and doesn't have anything to actually implement those ideals". Ideals are the first part of the solution. You actually have to have these ideas in order to create change. Quite honestly, I'd rather flock to a candidate that preaches ideals, and not about promises that will never happen.

I still wish that Edwards wouldn't have dropped, but maybe we'll see an Obama/Edwards ticket. I can only hope.

Unfortunately, no more Edwards.

Unfortunately, yesterday John Edwards dropped out of the race to be the Democratic nomination to become the President this year. I supported John Edwards ever since the Democrats lost in 2004.

To me he was the most populist candidate running, his platform was for the poor and lower classes. He was the one who not only realized, but refused to ignore that this country is not perfect, and that all of it's citizens don't wipe their asses with silk. There are some people who cannot afford medical insurance, and the people who can afford it, are being choked to death by it. My family is one of those families. My parents are having to fork out about $250 every two weeks to cover our HMO. But, we have to have it. God forbid something happen to any of us while off on insurance. Edwards' campaign spoke to people like me and my family. Like everyday citizens of this country. Who live paycheck to paycheck. If we can go half-way around the world to "help uncivilized people", then why the hell can't Americans get help? I think we should fix our own problems before going elsewhere. I'd rather spend $1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) to have every American have health insurance, than to spend $1 trillion to get rid of a murderous dictator that we helped get into power in the first place.

Now, I honestly do not know who I want to be the Presidential candidate for the Democrats. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to vote for Obama or Clinton over a republican any day of the week. I don't care about something half way around the world when shit right in my own neighborhood is affecting me more. That's not to say that I don't believe in foreign policy, actually, I'm an advocate of it. Foreign Policy: Let's talk about the world, and come to agreements since it affects all of us. There's nothing in there about not talking to someone because we don't agree with them.

At least it looks like McCain is going to me the Presidential candidate for the Republicans. Well, that's not necessarily a good thing for Democrats, because he's probably more electable than Obama or Clinton. It's good in the sense that it's not another Bush running for President. This is someone who has actually fought in a war honorably. He was a POW for years, and he knows what it's like to be tortured, and he will do away with it. I think he's the most moderate and sensible republican in the race. He may not seem like it right now, but he's having to play to the right in order to get the radicals since it's only the primaries. Once he has to start pulling nationally against Democrats, he'll have to be more moderate to try and pull from them, and that's where his true views tend to lie. But that's about as far as I go with him. I'd still rather have Clinton or Obama.

Now, I'd love to see Edwards as a Vice President role again, but I don't know if that'll happen. Since Edwards didn't swing Kerry like he wanted to, they might be less inclined to do so. However, if it's Clinton, I'd love to see a Clinton/Clark ticket. That'd give her an extreme edge for security. Let's have a VP who graduated top of his class at West Point, and actually led a decently successful multi-national military campaign in Kosovo. Plus, he's an excellent debater, I've seen him several times on Real Time with Bill Maher. Before people started declaring their campaigns, I actually wanted to see a Edwards/Clark or Clark/Edwards ticket. That would've been excellent.

Anyways, that's my little rant for right now, and it sucks to not have a computer right now.