I have finally broken down and decided to create a blog. There are a number of thoughts that I have had which I want to write down -- things that I do not want to forget. I also believe that other people might like to know these things and maybe some of them would be better for knowing them. In any case, the first domino to fall is a domino of outrage. Don't believe that this blog is a record of bitching, because it is not; I want to do more than just rant. But the outrage is not mitigated at the moment.
It has come to this; I cannot be silent anymore. Our presidential and vice presidential candidates are a bunch of dolts, and it is embarrassing. These three events are necessary information for all intelligent Americans:
Palin Interview with Katie Couric
Obama Speech without Teleprompter
McCain Responds to Ron Paul's Question
What is happening here? Presidential candidates are undoubtedly supposed to be specialists in their field. They do not need to know as much as a lawyer does about law, and they do not need to know as much as a political scientist or philosopher knows about political theories. They do, however, need to know something about both, and they need to know a lot about current events. That is not too much to ask, folks! As a graduate student, I happen to be surrounded by specialists. If I ask a professor about anything even remotely close to her specialization, she will be able to answer cogently, precisely and honestly. How old are these politicians? Are they not in their thirties? How much time have they had to learn their professions? This is just inexcusable. We are voting for a bunch of yes-men.
Shouldn't Palin at least be able to state her positions when asked? I find it hard to believe that a real-live thinking politician would not be able to think of more than one court ruling that he disagreed with. Palin could only think of Roe v. Wade. How standard.
Why can't Obama fill in five minutes of a speech that he undoubtedly did not write, but at least had some familiarity with beforehand? Doesn't he know what he supports? Doesn't his reasons for supporting it?
The reader can guess why McCain can't answer Ron Paul's question. He, just like Obama and Palin, was only taught to yammer about the platitudes that his party had created for him.
This is a travesty! What has our once proud country come to? Our pride has been whittled down until all that is left is bigotry. Is this even a democracy anymore? Our candidates are exactly the same, but they wear different masks. None of them can think for themselves; they just represent the same old positions that their party tells them to represent. A democratic state ought to be able to select from the entire pool of qualified candidates, but we are only allowed to select from a pool of two underqualified candidates.
This looks all too familiar. We all thought that President Bush was a fluke, that we didn't know he was an idiot before he was elected. But this is evidence that we were wrong. We should not blame President Bush for being an idiot; rather, we should blame the parties for pushing idiots on us. The fact that these two parties are using the same set of tactics for fooling us into electing their respective mouthpieces seems more than a little suggestive to me. These two parties were supposed to be enemies, remember? The only reason enemies plot together is if there is a third party, a common enemy. I will tell you who this common enemy is. It is we! These parties are trying to stop us from thinking for ourselves, because they are perfectly content to feed us our beliefs. There are more than two worldviews; the "liberal" and the "conservative" do not form the poles of an axis on which all of our beliefs lie. I always thought that the benefit of a democracy was supposed to be that every person is able to vote for a candidate based on her own beliefs. If we all believe the same things, though, the democracy becomes a de facto tyranny. The only question to ask now is this: Who is the tyrant?
In closing, I would like to impart one last video, which will show how absolutely insane Bill O'Reilly is. Of course, this is nothing that most people don't already know, but let him be an example of how these puppets react when they meet intelligent people who know what they are talking about.
Bill O'Reilly is a compulsive liar.
Bill O'Reilly is intolerant of anyone not Bill O'Reilly.
-Priam's Pride
It has come to this; I cannot be silent anymore. Our presidential and vice presidential candidates are a bunch of dolts, and it is embarrassing. These three events are necessary information for all intelligent Americans:
Palin Interview with Katie Couric
Obama Speech without Teleprompter
McCain Responds to Ron Paul's Question
What is happening here? Presidential candidates are undoubtedly supposed to be specialists in their field. They do not need to know as much as a lawyer does about law, and they do not need to know as much as a political scientist or philosopher knows about political theories. They do, however, need to know something about both, and they need to know a lot about current events. That is not too much to ask, folks! As a graduate student, I happen to be surrounded by specialists. If I ask a professor about anything even remotely close to her specialization, she will be able to answer cogently, precisely and honestly. How old are these politicians? Are they not in their thirties? How much time have they had to learn their professions? This is just inexcusable. We are voting for a bunch of yes-men.
Shouldn't Palin at least be able to state her positions when asked? I find it hard to believe that a real-live thinking politician would not be able to think of more than one court ruling that he disagreed with. Palin could only think of Roe v. Wade. How standard.
Why can't Obama fill in five minutes of a speech that he undoubtedly did not write, but at least had some familiarity with beforehand? Doesn't he know what he supports? Doesn't his reasons for supporting it?
The reader can guess why McCain can't answer Ron Paul's question. He, just like Obama and Palin, was only taught to yammer about the platitudes that his party had created for him.
This is a travesty! What has our once proud country come to? Our pride has been whittled down until all that is left is bigotry. Is this even a democracy anymore? Our candidates are exactly the same, but they wear different masks. None of them can think for themselves; they just represent the same old positions that their party tells them to represent. A democratic state ought to be able to select from the entire pool of qualified candidates, but we are only allowed to select from a pool of two underqualified candidates.
This looks all too familiar. We all thought that President Bush was a fluke, that we didn't know he was an idiot before he was elected. But this is evidence that we were wrong. We should not blame President Bush for being an idiot; rather, we should blame the parties for pushing idiots on us. The fact that these two parties are using the same set of tactics for fooling us into electing their respective mouthpieces seems more than a little suggestive to me. These two parties were supposed to be enemies, remember? The only reason enemies plot together is if there is a third party, a common enemy. I will tell you who this common enemy is. It is we! These parties are trying to stop us from thinking for ourselves, because they are perfectly content to feed us our beliefs. There are more than two worldviews; the "liberal" and the "conservative" do not form the poles of an axis on which all of our beliefs lie. I always thought that the benefit of a democracy was supposed to be that every person is able to vote for a candidate based on her own beliefs. If we all believe the same things, though, the democracy becomes a de facto tyranny. The only question to ask now is this: Who is the tyrant?
In closing, I would like to impart one last video, which will show how absolutely insane Bill O'Reilly is. Of course, this is nothing that most people don't already know, but let him be an example of how these puppets react when they meet intelligent people who know what they are talking about.
Bill O'Reilly is a compulsive liar.
Bill O'Reilly is intolerant of anyone not Bill O'Reilly.
-Priam's Pride
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