I just have to know if anyone knows how many soldiers died last week. I was watching ABC Sunday morning with Christiane Amanpour a week ago and she posted the deaths at the end. There were 14 soldiers in Afghanistan. I find this so troubling because it simply will make no difference if we stay there two years or two weeks longer. We got Bin Laden so I say, “Bring the troops home!”
A couple of weeks ago one of my ten brothers called me. He is a big Obama supporter. He knows how I feel about the 2008 election and the corruption I see in both parties, but ever hopeful, he asked me if I was going to vote for Obama. I thought for a minute and I told him two things. I said the problems with the 2008 primary in Michigan have never been addressed by Obama or the Democratic Party in a way that is believable or satisfactory to me. Here in Michigan my primary vote was stolen and given to Obama! However, I told him that if Obama wants my vote, he could do one key thing and probably get it. He could bring the troops home and end these wars! I don’t mean a little slight of the hand trick of putting troops in another country and saying we have left the other country, like troops from Iraq placed in Afghanistan. I mean bring them HOME!
And please tell me what is up with the media? I get it. Arnold is a bum. John is a low life, swindling attorney that you couldn’t trust with your ugliest girlfriend. Anthony is a fourteen year old boy with a hard on for the secret, or not so secret, life of the internet. So, why does the media care so much? It never ceases to amaze me how sex becomes more important than being lied to by an American President who took us to WAR!
In our country, either the media thinks we are more interested in politicians’ sex lives or we are that interested. I for one am not more interested in the secret lives of politicians than the back deals that they make with corporations to pick pocket the American people. I’m going to tell you right now I don’t care who you are sleeping with. I don’t care if you take naked pictures of yourself and send them to other people that probably send some of their own back to you. However, I do care if you pass legislation that takes us into war, strips money from education and gives it to the defense department, or takes money from the WIC program and gives it to other defense contractors. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/166653-republicans-looking-to-gut-wic-food-programs-in-amendment-debate
After all Republicans never met a defense bill that they couldn’t resist passing and Democrats never can truly stand up to the Republicans, not even for the American people. Talk is cheap in Washington D.C. but heaven forbid if you have a sex scandal. You can secretly be a bum, but if the world finds out that you are a bum, well, that’s a problem. My mother used to call that the “Spartan rule” but being a Michigan State Spartan, I now take offense to that reference. Arnold, John and Anthony perhaps thought that “When in Rome do as the Romans do.” I don’t know if all three were just doing what other politicians get away with on a daily basis, but I have to wonder why some politicians can be forgiven their bad behaviors and others cannot.
So, back to my original thought, will I vote for President Obama or not in 2012? I have to wonder what things will look like in the fall of 2012. Will we still be involved in three different wars in the Middle East? Will I see my hard earned tax dollars go to more war funding? Edwin Starr sings it best for me!