As we all know, in response to Obama running a campaign based on the theme of change, the Republicans have been describing themselves as the party of "real change." I guess I'd have to agree.
Watch the middle section for clips of Karl Rove on why the mayor of Richmond and then Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, didn't have enough "experience" to be Obama's VP choice. Bill O'Reilly on reserving judgement regarding teen pregnancy and parental responsibility. And two talking heads on Clinton exploiting the "gender card" because she can't "play with the big boys," yet arguing questions about Palin's suitability to be VP are sexist.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=184082
I suppose "change" would be one word for it. I think hypocrisy is probably a more accurate one.
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Right on. I just hate how they are SO copying the Democrats and how Rove has resurfaced....I can't wait until she has to actually answer questions from the people and the press.
I watched the Daily Show last night after the RNC ... to balance my right enthusiasm with some left sarcasm.
I'm such a fence walker.
Does it matter that Bill O'Reilly and cohorts are expressing their own foot-in-mouth views, and not necessarily those of the candidates?
I ADORE it when Jon Stewart shows clips of politicians and commentators revealing their true stupidity ... it comes from not allowing their moral code (if they really have one) to be tempered with compassion. I mess that up sometimes, too.
Keep writing, I'm not convinced either way at this point.
I've become very partisan through the Bush years. For more reasons than anyone would probably want to read, but unjustified war, torture, misleading the public, and trampling on the Constitution via "signing statements" are a few.
Believe it or not, I started out in my political life identifying with conservatives. In my very first election I voted for Dole--clear back in good ol' 96. Holly and I used to have a picture of Bob Dole in our locker. We thought it was more entertaining than all those buff beefcake guys.
You're point that it's not the actual politicians making those stupid, contradictory statements is true. Although, Rove has masterminded quite a few elections. I just see the sort of thing happening here as a general trend or tendency among many of the top figures in the Republican party. I know one could find contradictory statements from Independents and Democrats too, but they just don't seem to be as prevalent or incongruous.
I started voting for Democrats basically with Gore because I thought it was unwise to elect a president who could only name 3 or 4 foreign heads of state. And over the years, I've come to identify very closely with liberal values: equality, personal freedom, education, and compassion. Those are the things that I value most, so my decision is pretty clear.
The Daily Show has been one of my sources of relief to laugh instead of feeling powerless against a machine that keeps grinding the middle class into grist.
Well, I've been a lifelong Democrat...ever since I was 8 and my elementary school had a mock election of Reagan versus Mondale and I was actually mad because Mondale didn't win. I wanted him to win because he had a woman as his running mate. I was a pretty fierce little feminist back then, even though that was right around the time I still wanted to be a nun.
I know, oxmoronic.
I really don't want another Dan Quayle as the vice president of our country...why do the Bushes always seem to align themselves with people who can't spell or pronounce things correctly?
In my mind, my adherence to being a democrat is this: I think say what you will about Bill Clinton, but I really admire a guy who basically picked himself up out of a trailer-type life in Arkansas and went on to Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale...I mean that takes so much talent, guts, and determination, that I can kind of forgive him for also being a prevert on the side.
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