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Obama Mia!

August 20th, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

I realize the title is overdone. The recent resurgence of ABBA’s hit has embedded the song in the mind of anyone who has a television, or who has seen the billboards that advertise the movie. But that overdone-ness serves a point. I get that there are a plethora of urban myths about Barack Obama, I get that he’s not perfect, and I get that the person who forwarded the email to me has NO idea what my political beliefs are. They must not have talked to me for more than five minutes.

I’ll tell you right here that I’ve voted for Republicans, Democrats, Reform Party candidates, Greenies, Socialist Reformers, Independents, Socialist Workers Party, and Libertarians. I’ve been registered as both a Republican and a Democrat. I’ve also had it, completely had it, with the current party system. But I’m not here to blog about that. I’m here to blog about email smearing.

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A Note About Vice Presidential Candidates

August 29th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

As far as I’m concerned, the running mates of the major party candidates are a complete wash. Barack Obama picked an old, white man. John McCain picked a young woman. Two Vice Presidential nominees, two attempts at appealing to swing voters who might have been leaning in the direction of the other party. Both choices so horribly transparent, if you stood one in front of the other, you could still see the jungle through both of them.* Can we go back to talking about the candidates now?

* If it panders, we can kill it.

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Anti-Abortion Activist Agitates Pro-Puppy Protestors*

September 16th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

Hundreds of dogs got to go for a ride in the car on Tuesday afternoon. They (and their owners) gathered outside the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg for a rally in support of House Bill 2525. The legislation, sponsored by Representative James Casorio (D-Decent Human Being), would bring tighter regulation and improved minimum conditions to commercial kennels in the Pennsylvania, and hopefully start reforming the state’s lousy record of monitoring the dog breeding industry.

Supporters of the bill include the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Humane Society of the U.S. and Annemarie Lucas of Animal Planet’s Animal Precinct. They’re trying to get some momentum behind the bill which, in true Pennsylvania legislative fashion, has been loaded down with more than a hundred amendments, promising hours of debate before a vote can even be contemplated.

Across the street from the demonstrators was a lone whackjob holding two large signs. He wasn’t a pro-breeding industry activist. He was an anti-choice crusader, waving large pictures of aborted fetuses and loudly bemoaning the fact that “all these people come out to support the puppies, but nobody will protect the unborn babies.”

He didn’t seem to care how incongruous he looked, or that nobody was paying him any attention, but he really didn’t like it when I laughed at his odd choice of venue. Unfortunately, I was walking at a fair pace through the crowd, and his response after “laughing man” was lost in the noise.

I’m sure the crazy, sign-wielding nutbag takes some consolation from the fact that he might not have to protest for much longer. If John McCain gets elected, he will end the federal right to safe, legal abortions. States like Pennsylvania, which has fought to the Supreme Court for the right to restrict abortion access, will have a field day banning the practice.

If you’re going to vote Republican this year, please be honest with yourself. There is no moderation on that ticket.

They will END the federal right of access to safe, legal abortion for EVERY woman.

There will be NO exceptions.

John McCain will NOT suddenly change his mind once he’s elected. Whatever slight rebellious streak McCain displayed in the past has been washed away by the cleansing fire of the Christian Right.  McCain has gotten religion and social conservatism branded on his prostate in order to get elected, and he’s not going to ignore that plank of his party’s platform once he’s elected.

McCain’s Supreme Court will make Roe v. Wade disappear like so much inaugural ball champagne.

So if you think that victims of rape and incest, or women whose health will be permanently damaged by pregnancy, should be forced to have babies, go ahead and vote McCain-Palin. And pray to whatever god you believe in (because, let’s face it, you wouldn’t be voting for them if you didn’t have a deity whispering in your ear) that your wife, mother, niece, sister or girlfriend is never forced to have her rapist’s baby.

* I am the king of alliterative titles.

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Debate Liveblogging

September 26th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

EDIT: Wow, that was an experience. I’m not sure if it was successful or not, but kind of fun. Although it made it hard to actually pay attention to what the candidates were saying. I’ll have to think about whether or not I want to watch or type next time. 

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Decision Reached

October 2nd, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

I won’t be liveblogging the Vice Presidential debate tonight. It turns out I’ve got too much else to do tonight. If I come up for air long enough that I can even watch the debate, the last thing I’ll feel like doing is typing the whole time.

I hope that Biden is his usual crazy self. I really hope that he doesn’t go soft on Palin because she’s a woman. The misplaced chivalry that leads a male politicians to back off a female opponent is well-intentioned, but ultimately does her a disservice.

If Palin is qualified to be Vice President*, she has to be capable of holding her own in a debate without any special treatment. Let her succeed – or crash and burn like the Tunguska meteor – on her own terms. We can’t coddle her, and we can’t let her get away with any bullshit that we’d set on fire and ram down the throat of a male opponent.

Enjoy the spectacle, folks. I expect at least one new catchphrase to enter the cultural continuum by tomorrow morning.

* Very few sentences simultaneously make me want to laugh, puke and cry. Good show, Senator McCain.

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