Dear Politics:
Dear Healthcare Politics:
It’s all starting to make my head hurt. While I’ve been quietly pro-McCain for the last few months, all of the news and hubbub about Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin has forced me to look up from my textbooks and start to pay attention again. Due to the blast of negative information that I’ve been getting about her, I am erasing my support and changing my stance to the support of NO ONE.
That’s right. I am now officially Undecided. Since this is never a good thing to be when the future of one’s country is within one’s hands to change, I decided that I will get RE-INFORMED about the issues and pin down my placement on the ‘Issues’. I got the idea from a fellow blog-friend, “bean_bunny”bean_bunny . Her posts are F-locked so if she doesn’t add you, you’ll just have to take my word for it. She’s pro-Obama and would love for anyone who reads her blog to pay attention to where he stands.
“Well.” Thought I, as I perused her very nicely drawn out post, “What a smashing idea.” So, I have begun to collect articles of interest to start reviewing on MY blog so that I can show others WHY I believe the way I do, where I am getting my information from, and of course to give my friends a chance to debate, point out my shortcomings, and over all help me make up my mind.
Everyone reading this blog needs to keep in mind that I go to a Liberal Arts College. While I do not think that the liberal arts should be segregated to a certain political bent, I will say that EVERY professor that I have the honor of studying under this semester is a publically proclaimed liberal democrat in support of Senator Obama’s campaign for presidency and has made so many dumb, redneck republican jokes that I could roll them up into a sheet and use them as a mattress for a nap. This means that I have been flooded with a lot of Pro-Obama articles in the last two weeks.
I was a little surprised to rediscover John McCain during Dragon*Con. I first heard about the announcement of the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin through the television at the bar where I was busy getting my drink on for the first time, in celebration of my twenty-first birthday. This is what I learned about Sarah Palin in order of hearing: She is a woman. She has a teenage daughter that is currently pregnant and unmarried. She banned books. She was governor of Alaska. She made a wonderful speech at the Republican National Convention that almost got more viewers than “The Messiah”. Today I read an article that declared her to be a mean, racist, Alaskan dictator who took a perfect Alaskan economy and ran it down the drain just so she could build some parks. Her mother-in-law says demeaning things about her. She doesn’t do her homework when it comes to running her own state and vetoed pieces of financial legislation just to be a bitch…and really, just a lot of pretty nasty stuff about her character, the genetic racism of white republicans, and her ability to lead a country. Yet then I found this article written in 2006 about her rise to Alaskan governor. I found a lot of things in the article that I liked. She is a small town girl, she got involved in the politics of her home town, the name ‘Sarah Barracuda’ came from her basketball days in high school, not from eating people in her office that got in her way. She isn’t George Bush. She didn’t grow up rich. She wasn’t spooned politics from birth. In fact, I felt like the article really covered HOW she got into the political arena in the first place: tax reform.
So, here I am thinking to myself, ‘Wow… This is a lot of conflicting information.”
My method of making up my mind for this election is to review my friend’s political blogs, news blogs, and really, just anything that catches
my eye about the elections and try and explore those articles in my own journal at least once a week. The first direct article I ran into was a Vote for Business.net article. These arguments are the ones I think I’m going to go through first to because they seemed to sum up many issues that I should consider as I begin my voting checklist. To give credit to thebean_bunny “bean_bunny”’s example this is my political post for the week. I will be open to suggestions of what issues to cover over the next week and any article that my f-list think will help to make a well informed decision.
It’s all starting to make my head hurt. While I’ve been quietly pro-McCain for the last few months, all of the news and hubbub about Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin has forced me to look up from my textbooks and start to pay attention again. Due to the blast of negative information that I’ve been getting about her, I am erasing my support and changing my stance to the support of NO ONE.
That’s right. I am now officially Undecided. Since this is never a good thing to be when the future of one’s country is within one’s hands to change, I decided that I will get RE-INFORMED about the issues and pin down my placement on the ‘Issues’. I got the idea from a fellow blog-friend, “bean_bunny”bean_bunny . Her posts are F-locked so if she doesn’t add you, you’ll just have to take my word for it. She’s pro-Obama and would love for anyone who reads her blog to pay attention to where he stands.
“Well.” Thought I, as I perused her very nicely drawn out post, “What a smashing idea.” So, I have begun to collect articles of interest to start reviewing on MY blog so that I can show others WHY I believe the way I do, where I am getting my information from, and of course to give my friends a chance to debate, point out my shortcomings, and over all help me make up my mind.
Everyone reading this blog needs to keep in mind that I go to a Liberal Arts College. While I do not think that the liberal arts should be segregated to a certain political bent, I will say that EVERY professor that I have the honor of studying under this semester is a publically proclaimed liberal democrat in support of Senator Obama’s campaign for presidency and has made so many dumb, redneck republican jokes that I could roll them up into a sheet and use them as a mattress for a nap. This means that I have been flooded with a lot of Pro-Obama articles in the last two weeks.
I was a little surprised to rediscover John McCain during Dragon*Con. I first heard about the announcement of the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin through the television at the bar where I was busy getting my drink on for the first time, in celebration of my twenty-first birthday. This is what I learned about Sarah Palin in order of hearing: She is a woman. She has a teenage daughter that is currently pregnant and unmarried. She banned books. She was governor of Alaska. She made a wonderful speech at the Republican National Convention that almost got more viewers than “The Messiah”. Today I read an article that declared her to be a mean, racist, Alaskan dictator who took a perfect Alaskan economy and ran it down the drain just so she could build some parks. Her mother-in-law says demeaning things about her. She doesn’t do her homework when it comes to running her own state and vetoed pieces of financial legislation just to be a bitch…and really, just a lot of pretty nasty stuff about her character, the genetic racism of white republicans, and her ability to lead a country. Yet then I found this article written in 2006 about her rise to Alaskan governor. I found a lot of things in the article that I liked. She is a small town girl, she got involved in the politics of her home town, the name ‘Sarah Barracuda’ came from her basketball days in high school, not from eating people in her office that got in her way. She isn’t George Bush. She didn’t grow up rich. She wasn’t spooned politics from birth. In fact, I felt like the article really covered HOW she got into the political arena in the first place: tax reform.
So, here I am thinking to myself, ‘Wow… This is a lot of conflicting information.”
My method of making up my mind for this election is to review my friend’s political blogs, news blogs, and really, just anything that catches
my eye about the elections and try and explore those articles in my own journal at least once a week. The first direct article I ran into was a Vote for Business.net article. These arguments are the ones I think I’m going to go through first to because they seemed to sum up many issues that I should consider as I begin my voting checklist. To give credit to thebean_bunny “bean_bunny”’s example this is my political post for the week. I will be open to suggestions of what issues to cover over the next week and any article that my f-list think will help to make a well informed decision.