O.K. I am so frikin fired up lately about the news! I have been struggling to wrap my head around it and learn about it enough to the point where I can understand it. Let's delve into it shall we.
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a $700 bailout for troubled assets. (How a country in trillions of dollars of debt can consider the idea of spending $700 billion of money that they don't have is beyond me... but that's another issue!) The House of Reps voted this bill down 228 to 205. They said it was a blank check, too much money and lacked oversight.
The House decided to send this bill to the Senate for further debate, revision and vote . They added about $150 billion in spending to the bill and voted for it 74 to 25.
The House of Reps then went ahead and... voted in support of this new bill totaling $850 billion dollars ( 263 yes/171 no).
WTF!? Do not think about the logic behind that for more than 5 minutes or else you will start to experience the symptoms of an anyerism and blood will shoot out of your ears. The human brain is not cabable of such things.
Secondly there is this story that is FINALY getting some attention:
The relationship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
Now that's a bit of a lengthy article. Basically it presents a professional and political connection (not just a coincidental one as presented by the media) between Obama and Bill Ayers. Ayers being a domestic terrorist, founding member of the Weather Underground (Wikipedia that), having bombed the Pentagon, police stations and robed banks. He has never expressed regret for this. Actually... (as mentioned in the story) on the morning of September 11, 2001, New York Times published a profile about this man where he says he only wishes he blew up more buildings and planted more bombs!
If you don't want to read the article, watch this Anderson Cooper video clip. Keep in mind... this is coming from the rather liberal biased CNN and not the typically conservative FOX news network. (Trust me... you will be suprized.)
Now I am not advocating any one political party here... I'm advocating common sense.
I learned early on in life that you can judge a lot about a person by the friends that they keep. I learned that from my parents.
Cathartic... I feel better now. (Slightly.)
Wouldn't common sense dictate that if a political candidate chose to work with someone who is a self admitted domestic terrorist, they are demonstrating a lack of good judgment? A lack of judgment that may not befit them for the position of the highest public office in the land?
I learned early on in life that you can judge a lot about a person by the friends that they keep. I learned that from my parents.
Cathartic... I feel better now. (Slightly.)
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