Taking Folksy to a Fault?

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,  

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
 
Am I the only one, after listening to Sarah Palin, if I didn't know that she was from Alaska, I would have thought she was from somewhere along the Mason/Dixon line, not quite the South, but sorta, kinda not from Alaska . . . I've had a whole family from the Northwest, including Alaska, and none of them had fake southern accents. Trying to identify with "Joe Six-pack and hockey moms" is one thing, but it is insulting to think that most of us Americans are ignorant enough or stupid enough to want more of what we've had for the last eight years from the Bush GOP. How many people would vote for Jed Clampett for President or VP, even though he was a millionaire that struck oil, and you could sit down and have a beer with him?
 
The point is, that most Americans are aware that they are not qualified to work in the U.S. government for the people and they would also say so, if asked. It's knowing what we Americans don't know, that's one reason we have debates. Bush was turned down for college in Texas, and his father's university couldn't turn him down. He was still unqualified to be in the Oval Office. We are where we are today, owned by China with a defunct Wall Street, the highest debt ever in our history, millions dead or injured, and the destruction of a country, Iraq, and we are where we are, because we had the Nixon/Reagan/Bush Republican Party in government for the last 30 years, and not the true Republican Party of yesterday, not since Eisenhower.
 
McCain voted with the Bush Administration 90% of the time, and that should tell every American, even those so-called Joe Six-packs and hockey moms that they (McCain and Palin) are liars when they say they are not part of this criminal faction of the Republican Party. Criminals that have yet to face accountability. Loyalty to Bush was the qualifying factor to get along with the Bush GOP, or to be nominated by Bush and his administration to head about 3,000 agencies. No wonder we are in trouble. 
 
Yes, we need the debates, but what we need as a nation with such a vast population and diversity is not another team of Bush GOP Republicans. Palin was arrogant, and was constantly evading the questions, smiling, acting cutely, running the debates herself, telling us what she was and was not going to talk about. Giving orders without qualifications and without accountability is what the Bush GOP has been all about for the last eight years. And, they never take responsibility for their deadly deeds. They always try to blame the Democrats. The Democrats did not have a majority rule. Not enough to stop Republican filibusters that held back legislation. Not even enough to bring about accountability for the crimes committed in Iraq. An illegal and treasonous invasion/occupation that Palin said Congress had a war declaration . . . another lie or was it just ignorance. Does it matter? Yes, it does matter.
 
It was obvious that Palin was coached, but there is just so much people can do, isn't there? It took Joe Biden to explain the real facts. Take McCain's idea of healthcare for Americans. The majority of Americans do not make anywhere close to 250,000 a year, and Palin said that what we Americans don't need is for government to run such a program.  She was right on half of that statement . . . nothing is wrong with the U.S. government, it has worked for many years up until Nixon, and if there had been accountability for those Bush Republicans, who would break the law in U.S. government, we wouldn't have the criminal activity today that has been found and ignored in U.S. government, and is the reason for the downfall of our country. They hate government and love dictatorships. Deregulation, privatization are two of the most deadly poisons to a democracy, and we have had double doses of each all spooned out with miles of smiles by the Bush Republican Party and their supporters, that is, until elections.
 
How do we know Palin was coached by the Bush GOP? Palin did what every Bush Republican does, including McCain, they love to talk about tax breaks. The only problem with that is that it's the wealthy 5 percent of this country who really get the big breaks and that is another reason that we don't have a treasury today. They also used the criminal no-bid contracts. And so much fraud; How did they get away with that? They take from the poor or cause middle class to become the poor, and give to the rich. McCain, judge him by his own words and his own votes in Congress, he is one of those Bush loyal Republicans, and when he had the opportunity to show real leadership, just once, he chooses someone, Palin, whose record is not qualified to step into the Oval Office if needed, due to McCain's noted poor health, and who also couldn't name one paper in the U.S. that she reads. What was he thinking? How pretty she was? She has done nothing for women. To make a raped woman pay over a thousand dollars for her own rape kit examination . . . what should that tell the soccer moms of this country? Eh? And, there's much more.
 
Palin wasn't clear about the problems with climate change and most all Americans understand what has been the problems with climate change. We started getting reports years ago about the change in the ozone layers, the smog that has become much worse around the country, even to the point of causing illnesses . . . to ignore the cause of a problem, especially our energy problems, would be impossible to solve them. It doesn't take a real smart person to know that. But, elections are not about truths, when it comes to the Bush GOP . . . they don't believe in facing realities, which is what a good government and a flourishing democracy needs. Reality.
 
Fossil fuel, the very word, fossil, should tell the average person that it cannot last forever and after so many years, the pollution around the world could change this planet so drastically that it would endanger all life as we know it. It's a responsibility to take care of our planet, and to respect all life on this planet . . . then there was the mention of people (paraphrasing) and how they feel about our freedoms, where have we heard that before (hint - Bush) . . . under the Bush GOP rule, our Constitution has been put at risk as well as our Bill of Rights.
 
When Katrina happened and we saw people dying from neglect through a Bush GOP government unprepared, many of us said, look at Iraq, and we will see New Orleans. And that came true. The Bush GOP, which is McCain and Palin, do not respect life. How they can talk so glibly about Iraq and Afghanistan and give the impression that they feel nothing for the million deaths that this country has caused in Iraq under Bush, and almost 5,000 American deaths and thousands of U.S. military and National Guard badly injured, and still, they talk about winning a war. We must have leaders that understand the difference between "war" and "invasions." We must have leaders who feel that those lives were important enough to recognize them. Hundreds of thousands of children lost their lives, their childhood, and thousands have birth defects all due to the Republican U.S. government.
 
We Americans lost 3,000 fellow Americans during 9/11, when Bush and his administration failed to give us Americans the same warnings that they gave just a few government employees, such as Ashcroft. Bush should have been impeached for that. How can we not feel something for what has been done to the people in Iraq and Afghanistan? They had nothing to do with bin Laden and 9/11. Bush allowed bin Laden to go on his way. Bush is a friend of the bin Laden family. If that had been a Democrat, he would have been impeached today. McCain says he doesn't know much about computers, and I have to assume neither does Palin, because if they did, they would have access to hundreds of papers and information that we don't get in this country from our TV and MSM. Here's just one link to 651 front pages in 60 countries. We are a modern society and this calls for leaders who know much more than the average American citizen today, doesn't it?
 
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I'm putting my trust in the American people that they want people in the U.S. government who will do the work for the American people, clean up the Bush GOP mess, if possible, it will take generations . . . and understand that they just want to live out their lives in peace, goodwill, and good health to all . . . and not have to keep a constant watch on those in government.
 
Anyone who hates where we are as a country today, surely won't vote Republican. That is not how to get rid of those who have kidnapped the Republican Party and are currently holding this country hostage. We don't want fake folksy Clampetts . . . we Americans want accountability, responsibility, justice for the dead, the dying, and the injured . . . and, we want the Executive Office of this country to be knowledgeable, accountable, read papers, negotiate instead of killing innocent people, respect other cultures . . . lead with the knowledge that the U.S. government is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
 
Shouldn't we Americans want them to understand that these positions in the Oval Office are very responsible positions, not just here, but around the world, and the arrogance of at least, not knowing what one doesn't know without the curiosity to want to know . . . will never join the lists of the great leaders of our times . . . the only way we Americans can lift ourselves up out of this pit of greedy hell today, is to use the only power we have and that is our vote . . . Democratic Party for a renewed democracy without the Bush GOP, and their supporters.
 
"The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. Harry S. Truman, Message to Congress, April 16, 1945."
 
Today, the U.S. has over 800 military bases around the world, an invasion/occupation gone awry in Iraq, and a questionable residence in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is not, and what are we doing with Pakistan that's not being reported, then we find out that Bush just threw out Posse Comitatus. We Americans need a lift, a look to the future, change. Have a great day November 4 or vote early. Know, inside your hearts, that you did your best and did not vote for more Bush GOP debt, death, and destruction.

Thanks BuzzFlash,  

Shirley Smith

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON