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I really, really, really needed to get this off my chest.
I want my Vice President to know something about our country. I want him/her to be able to learn from the past and use the mistakes we've made in the past to avoid making the same mistakes in the future. George Santayana said "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" and we are doing just that. We're in another Vietnam. We're sending so many young men and women to fight for democracy in a country that's not ready for it, in a region that's openly hostile to the ideas of freedom and democracy. Democracy is not spread through conquering, because ideas are not limited by "who owns what land." Anti-democratic ideals will continue to spread in the region regardless of how long we stay there or how many innocent Iraqis we kill. We did the same thing in Vietnam and if you want to know how that ended just look up the picture of the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon.
and on that note--
what is past is prologue.
A Vice-Presidential candidate who can't name a single Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade?
Is that someone who's ready to lead the country?
The rulings of the Supreme Court have shaped our country's democratic ideals. Brown v Board of Ed, Plessy v Ferguson, Dartmouth College v Woodward, US vs EC Knight...these are cases that have changed our identity as a country. And if a candidate doesn't know the identity of her country, how is she ready to lead?
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haha I wrote it on facebook
and I'll probably get yelled at for it
but I don't care.
Obama '08.
hahaha I like how I haven't written in this in over a year.
rofl.
In other news, I got skinny jeans.
And I'm almost done with the application for my first choice school. Even though I'm not applying Early Decision, it's still due Nov 1. AAAHHH.