Ok so now I am officially scared now that we have have turned our kids into political pawns. This is the kind of crap that communist whack jobs do in Red China or Russia, but in America we don’t brain wash our kids to get them to sing about something they know nothing about.
Link to You Tube Communist Obama Song by unknowing brainwashed kids.
As for the lyrics, I have problems with Obamas message. How can he say he is about change when Biden has been in Congress for longer than I have been alive, and I am 36? How can that be any kind of change? How come the song say they are going to spread freedom when that is the same thing Bush said right before he invaded Iraq? What does Obama plan to re-arrange? Maybe he plans to make Washington as corrupt as Chicago is now politically.
I think we all need a wake up call and need to relize that this is one scarry elecetion cycle and neither canidate has any idea what it means to work for a living and to be in our shoes and if you think they do then you have drunk way to much Kool-aid.
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September 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
A couple of thoughts for you:
1. Kids overwhelmingly, when asked, support the candidate their parents do. Not their teachers, etc. (Up until about 9th grade, at which point they begin to formulate distinct opinions).
2. To be effective in elected government, as in any job, requires a mix of intelligence, education, passion, leadership, eloquence, and experience.
Obama took Biden to round him out with a global policy expert and for his connections within the political world. Nobody doubts him in these regards, no matter if you agree or disagree with how he uses them.
McCain took Palen to round him out on the “freshness” that he lacks with younger voters, to entice dissapointed hillary supporters, and frankly to shake things up. She’s been very effective at this, but is rapidly proving to simply be no ready to step into the role they’ve put her in. She doesn’t have the polish yet to pull it off and as we get to know her more, that becomes obvious.
Nobody disputes McCain’s patriotism, or passion. What is in question is his hotheaded temper, and inability to get anything accomplished in terms of the changes that he wants — and has wanted for 20 years. He doesn’t get along with his own party because he won’t just toe the line like a good company man (which is respectable), but he doesn’t get along with anyone else’s party either. He’s well meaning, but ultimately he’s failed to be effective.
We don’t elect a president based on an issue. The issues will change. The President will have new issues we won’t know about until the decisions are made. We elect someone who we trust to make those decisions carefully and in a way we can respect. McCain is a hothead who has alienated his party enough to get poor advice there, and chosen a running mate without the experience to offer any. Obama is inexperienced but by nature a careful, contemplative person who has chosen a running mate with experience that fits the gaps in his own.
If you look honestly and ignore the bullshit from AM radio on both sides (and MSNBC, and FOX –each with their own biases) you’ll find that neither choices is that bad, but that there’s a clear winner.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
“If you look honestly and ignore the bullsh!t from AM radio on both sides (and MSNBC, and FOX –each with their own biases) you’ll find that neither choices is that bad, but that there’s a clear winner.”
I don’t see a “CLEAR WINNER” unless you have a “CRYSTAL BALL” that is working better than mine?
I don’t see AM radio as BULL like you do, rather it’s a certain segment of the political spectrum that if you are free thinking needs to be listened to. I know where you stand on issues Andrew so I know why you call AM radio what you do. I do think that your generalization of a radio spectrum into a certain side of an issue is bold in that there are AM stations that go the other way and have tried but always seem to fail, and they fail because no one wants to hear left-democratic blah blah because it’s not human. It’s not in our nature to give out more than we take in. It’s not in our nature to lay down and be told what to do and it’s not in our nature to say I’m sorry when your right.
People don’t normally think LEFT. They don’t always think RIGHT, but most hard working Americans will tell you that democracy and hard work with compensation are both essential for a republic to survive.
I don’t see any clear winner this political season. The losers are the American public, who don’t have anyone representing them at all.
You all can think you are helping a political party and doing good for a nation, but your doing no one but that person good, and your only giving the grave digger the shovel to dig your own grave.
If you think either party is out to do what is right for America you just as dumb as the computer you work on.
Sadly I am just looking for some place I can go where no one will bother me and I can keep what I make and not give it away to the poor and lazy SOBs who Obama and Biden want to prop up in socialist programs.
As for McCain, he needs to stop switch hitting for the DEMS and start playing ball for Americans or he is going to end up at home with nothing to do but lobby and do interviews….sadly we are again faced with a hard decisions. Turd Sandwich or Douche Bag?
September 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
This is extremely creepy … something you’d expect to see and hear in North Korea, where the children (and adults) march and chant in unison. These children aren’t old enough to even begin to realize what they are endorsing, and what they are opposing. This is another example of how Obama uses showmanship and crowds to substitute for a total lack of track record and experience.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
@ HOWARD - Thanks and glad to see someone show up here, stay on topic and make a point either for or against the post.
I agree, It does remind me of something out of an old China, Cuba, Russia film.
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OBAMA Scares the hell out of me, more so than any candidate I have seen since I started voting in 1988. I am even a history buff and there have been questionable presidential candidates, but most like Obama haven been on the fring, barley getting noticed. Somehow Americans, at least half, think that a socialist no experience, stole and conned his way into politics, empty suit turd like Obama should run the country.
It’s sad….anyone want to know how I really feel?
I spent some time in Utah last weekend with Family and was talking to them and others who knew my brother in law, Kevin, and none of them understood what Obama was about or trusted him. I found this odd, because you always run into someone out of the 5 or 6 people who you are talking to that go the other way and like Obama, but it didn’t happen. Most people didn’t like McCain much either but it was again the choice they were having to make, turd or douche?
Most people picked the one that didn’t hurt so bad.
Only my observation.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
>but in America we don’t brain wash our kids to get them to sing about something they know nothing about…
That’s about in line with how schools teach evolution as fact/truth vs. theory. It’s just something that the masses get so comfortable with that it isn’t challenged anymore. Thinking outside the norm is frowned upon when it crosses into certain socially political arenas.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Dem’s win no matter what. If Obama wins, the Dem wins. If McCain wins, the Dem in Rep clothing wins. So at this point, I’m just in it for the judges.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:29 am
@Timothy - I look at it the other way. We all lose. In the end we are not being represented, Senators and Congressmen are spending too long in Washington, and no one is doing anything to better the country because they are all doing fine and don’t need too.
We all lose, it’s does not even matter who wins.