I don't like election years. I don't like junk mail in general and it increases ten-fold this time of year. I hate phone calls that say "Out of Area" or "Private Caller" and don't answer them except to hang up again. They are a waste of my time. For these reasons, I am pleased the primary is over. I will also be glad when it is Thanksgiving. I believe our current President will still be our President. Of course, it is possible he won't, but I don't believe he will be defeated. I live in Alabama the Red (Republican) state. I love Alabama; always have. "Alabama the Beautiful" is not just a slogan, it is beautiful here. Despite our politics we have a really great state. Is it perfect? No. I would challenge anyone to prove theirs is. We all have room to grow and improve.
Today I am embarrassed to be from Alabama. Rick Santorum? Really? Nauseated does not begin to describe how I feel about him. He is a very sick man with some very sick ideas and ideals. He wants to be King and someone forgot to tell him we don't have "Divinely Ordained Rulers" in the good old U.S. of A.
He actually said that you know. He said he was ordained by God to win the nomination. I can't help but wonder why he believes this. Hmm...nah. He is one sick and scary little man. If he is the best the Republicans have, that is just very sad. It is sad because I KNOW Republican "supporters" (i.e. friends) who have more sense and sensibility than that man. Any one of them could and would do a better job in the White House than him. You know, Rick, you can't believe your own press. That's when you start losing touch.
I will be the first to admit that Barack Obama was not my candidate of choice 4 years ago today. I supported Clinton and I still believe that while she is probably glad she is not the POTUS, she would have done a knock out job. She is a smart, capable woman. Yet, while Obama was not my choice, and I was sad that Hillary dropped out and endorsed him, I did as she asked and supported him. I have never been regretful. I knew that ANY Democrat (Hell - anyone from any other party) would be better than a Republican back in the building.
I think, as it turns out, Barack Obama has done a good job for the people of this country - even those that hate him. He could have done a better job with the support of the United States Congress. They have worked against him with a fervor that this country has never seen. We have never seen men and women that hate one man so much that they would work to destroy this country, just so it would look like it was done on his watch. They are the most childish and worthless leaders this country has ever had, these Republican Congress-people. And make no mistake: this is about hating Obama, not hating the Democrats. The Republicans say they don't want a class war, but fund it with every word they utter and every work they do. They do it to make him look bad. I wonder why that is. Assuredly not because he is a....Democrat.
Then there is this War on Women. I guess if Hillary had won the election, she would have been hated because she is a woman. The Republicans (especially the TP's) wouldn't be able to stand it if she looked good in the highest office in the land. After all, the Republicans believe women don't even need to vote, much less be in politics. I find it almost laughable (on an insane sort of level) that even the Republican Congresswomen and women Senators feel this way!! Excuse me, but why aren't they at home in their own damn kitchens? Why do they think it is okay to work in politics if women don't need to vote or voice a political opinion? It is things like this that make me think someone in Washington is pouring some lethal fruit punch for people and they are slurping it right up.
The Republican politicians are saying the most bizarre and most insane things we have ever heard from them. They're coming up with the absolutely most illogical baloney to write in Bills I have seen in my lifetime of watching political shenanigans.
We are not idiots you bunch of morons!
We know the new ultrasound-abortion garbage (and it is garbage) is only a loud distraction during an election year. We also know it is unconstitutional and you will allow the waste of millions of dollars and tie up our court systems in this country with this banal argument only to have it all reversed in say, 10 years. This was settled when the Supreme Court decided on Roe v. Wade. This was already decided. You don't have to have an abortion, but it is legal if you want one. You, Mr. and Mrs. Republican Party, are the biggest bunch of asses I can think of. You are the waste in this country. You are the "domestic terror" in this country; you and your "War on Women."
We should be working together to fix our national problems and you sit around happily causing more. Why? To keep people from seeing what you are really doing. You do it to make people angry and get them worked up about things other than the election. You cannot find true Presidential fault with Obama so you are going to scream "fire" in a theater so no one will stay and watch the film. Oh yes, we see you. We also know you are wrong. You are inept as a party and you try to hide that incompetence to lead with distractions, innuendo, and lies. That does not make you a superior person or party. That just makes you pathetic.
Yesterday, I registered as a Democrat because I would not want any Republican to believe I agreed with them. I don't want your Republican mail or calls. I have always tried to vote the candidate, not the party and have a particular distrust of people voting only a party. I feel no one who is unqualified should ride the coat tails of those who are. There may come a day when I see a Republican who has changed, who has higher ideals, who wants to put our country first. Right now, I don't see that. Right now, I don't think I ever again will see that. Any American, any political party, that would not choose to put Americans first is truly sad and un-American.
As a side note:
Look at the history of "Red" politics around the world. Look at the meaning of being "red." Why would any "American" political party want to be red? Isn't that what they used to call Communists back in the 50's and 60's? Really? We do not have to be "Red." We do not have to be a stalled Republican State. Move forward to the future Alabama.
Good luck Mr. Obama. You have 1 vote.
