So, I have been trying to stay away from talking about politics on my blog but I have noticed many of my fellow bloggers have been posting their thoughts and feelings. I've decided to join them. I figure this is my blog and if you don't want to read it you don't have to.
First, my brother, Bart sent me this GREAT LINK that is full of quotes and information on how other candidates have voted on issues. I have spent the past while reading through it. The link goes straight to Sarah Palin but as you look at the issues you can read about where the other candidates stand on these same issues. I think it's very "fair and balanced".
As I read about what Sarah Palin has accomplished and her views on issues I then compared Barak Obama's accomplishments and views. This is what I found:
1. When Sarah Palin was quoted her answers were short and too the point. When Barak was quoted it was a long drawn out paragraph to explain why he does what he does and says what he says.
My conclusion: I truly believe the saying about there are talkers and there are doers. I think Sarah is a doer and Barak's a talker. I think I want a doer in the White House not a talker.
2. Barak's history was a lot of increasing and expanding more programs. He thinks that they should have "age appropriate" sex ed in kindergartens. (Who decides what is age appropriate.) Sarah Palin's history showed that decisions she made had to do with keeping the government out. She supports home schooling and home child care where she feels children will thrive and grow in such an environment.
My conclusion: With Barak's plan for more programs all I see are $$$$. Where will that come from? Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. That's right, you and me. Sarah set a goal in Jan. 2007 to reduce spending of the general fund by $150 million. By March of 2007 they had reduced spending to $124 million.
3. Barak says that he doesn't think that TV or the internet should be sensored and that the parents should take responsibility to keep that out of there homes.
My question: How come he thinks parents are responsible enough to control what their kids watch on TV or look at on the internet but aren't responsible enough to feed them and provide health care for them.
4. Last point: I noticed that as I read about Sarah Palin's accomplishments and decisions she has made as governor I couldn't help but notice that most of the comments by Barak were answers to questions about what he would do for this or that situation.
My Conclusion: Barak Obama does not have the experience that Sarah Palin has.
I'll spare you any more political thoughts. I also plan on going back and reading McCain's information. Look at the sight and let me know what conclusions you have drawn. I'm always interested to know how others view things.
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4 comments:
Great Post, Casey! I was just talking to Bart on the phone (before I saw your blog) and he was talking about that link. We were also discussing the interview with McCain and Obama last night. I didn't like the fact that they both came off sounding alike--not a big choice. So much talk about Americans being more involved in serving, as if (as Bart pointed out) the farmer in Iowa who gets up every morning and works all day to feed his family and the rest of America isn't serving his country. And will someone tell me what makes Kennedy the lion of the senate? Who are we kidding here? Don't get me started.
I haven't read your great link yet but I'm sure it's a winner coming from you!! I have been so addicted to this election. I'm so glad we have Sarah Palin a new fresh face full of new energy.It's so exciting. She is awesome! I didn't think I would be excited about this election at all after Romney didn't get the nomination but things have changed now yipee!! Maybe Mccain is smarter than we think?? I have a feeling we are going to find out because he is going to win!
I can always count on you, can't I?
Thanks for the post.
McCain/Palin 08!
I've decided that I'm disgusted with them both, but I'm more disgusted by McCain now.
1. i would rather have somebody leading the country who takes the time to think before acting. i would rather have somebody who acknowledges that solutions are rarely simple.
2. We will all be paying taxes, taxes, taxes, all of our lives. Our kids will be paying taxes, taxes, taxes. our grandkids will be paying taxes, taxes, taxes. They will all be paying off the debts we built up during the current Republican administration. Debts we built up by killing an awful lot of people for no real purpose. Maybe someday we'll have our own puppet regime in the Middle East, but most of our past attempts at interventionism and nation-building (Russia in 1918, Woodrow Wilson's Caribbean campaigns, Albania, Iran and Guatemala in 1953, Cambodia in 1955, Vietnam, Congo in 1956, there are more but I'll stop now) have failed. So our track record is not so good. McCain supports continued interventionism.
And the sex-ed in kindergarten lie was spun off of Obama's saying that kids, even kindergarteners, need to know that sexual molestation is wrong.
3. What do you propose should be the standard for censoring television or internet? Censoring a private market (like TV or internet services) seems very anti-free-market to me. And any parents i know who do not have enough money for three healthy meals a day or proper health care would love to be able to afford it. The day my sister's husband finally got a job with health insurance (he had to get into a union first), she cried.
4. They have different kinds of experience. Governor is not an easy job. But she has only been in that office for just under two years. I believe that two years in, we Californians still loved Schwarzenegger, too. I'm not going to argue that Obama is the most experienced candidate. He isn't. But experience is only a part of qualification.
I'm not getting my hopes up. Whoever gets elected, they will disappoint us. Our government is crippled by debt, inflation is coming, our world leverage is diminished, our trade deficit is embarrassing. feh.
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