Barack Obama is going to make decisions that I do not like. Barack Obama is not the "liberal" he has been defined by the right and misunderstood by many on the left. Just because a hippy lefty, like me, believes he could be one of the Great Leaders (certainly American) of my lifetime does not mean Barack is a hippy leftie. And being against the War in Iraq does not make someone "a liberal" either. He's left of center certainly, but not all his stances match the progressive left. The politics he preaches talks of sitting down with both sides of an argument and coming to a mutual agreement and understanding. A welcome change from "you're with us or your against us", but a bit of a pill to take when the decision lands on the side of the argument opposite yours. I haven't had a real problem with any of Obama's decisions thus far . I thought he should take a hit not taking public finance moneys allotted by the 10% of Americans that check the box on their tax forms, and he did. But it was a smart move. But this FISA bill vote really pisses me off. Senator Barack Obama, along with 68 other Senators, voted in favor of giving the president the right into Our privacy without fear of reprisal or oversight, even for the then criminal acts he and the "we were only following orders" telecoms perpetrated before the law went through. Not to mention, it was something he said he would not vote for. More of the same new mccain missed the vote, like he has every other one this year.
There are a couple, not to say they're legitimate, rationales I can think of for Congress's "bowing" to the president and giving him right and reign over any detail of any of our lives he deems fit to explore. In a Rachel Maddow interview with Russ Feingold. He seems to think that it may be okay, though "it was one of the greatest assaults on Our Constitution", that Obama voted yea on the new FISA, because it is something Obama and the Democrats will fix after he becomes President. So they vote pro-spying on American Citizens, the republicans can't say they're weak on the terrorists, and after they win, they'll change it back. That coupled with the pro-spying contingent having enough votes to pass it anyway might be enough of a pathetic excuse, but there may be more. Also passed that day was a "landmark" Medicare Bill, that brought Senator Edward Kennedy out of his sick bed for a deciding vote. The bill hits the insurance companies and helps the doctors and the patients. Was this close Medicare vote negotiated by giving certain votes on FISA? I don't know, but I still don't like it. It's not enough to sway my support for Barack Obama for president of the United States of America, but I don't like it.
In other news that smells funny, have you heard about the fake Iranian missile pictures? I wonder who made those. Maybe it was Iran thumping it's chest like it's nemesis Israel, whose planes may be practicing on Our bases in Iraq. Or... Maybe... it was the same "folks" that forged those Nigerian Uranium documents they helped cheneyco. rush us into war in Iraq. Either way if we go to war with Iran, oil prices will spike even higher, and there will have to be a draft.
In other news, the befuddled one said he would balance the budget by 2012 with the help of "savings from Victory in Iraq". That's right. The money that we have been "deficit or debt" spending in Iraq can be used as income once we can stop "deficit" spending it for war. Obama defended his stance that children should learn foreign languages, his economic plan came out some months ago. And Our "Free Market is the Best" government bailed out a couple more huge private companies. But my favorite bit of the week, no it has nothing to do with a-rod, was the video of candidate "i'm not the man I used to be" mccain being asked by a reporter if it was "fair" that insurance companies pay for viagra, but not birth control pills. Squirm, johnny squirm.
And finally, onto Our two wars. In Afghanistan, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, is now saying that, unless we pull troops out of Iraq, we will not have enough troops in Afghanistan to fight the resurgent taliban and al qaeda there. Pakistan as recently said the US can no longer hunt bin Laden there. And in Iraq, the Iraqi government is pushing for a TIMETABLE for the withdrawal of US/foreign fighters. Those surrender monkeys, why do they hate Iraq? You know, here's Senator Barack Obama's Plan for Iraq. I'm sure I'll type more about both wars later, along with the economy, energy, political satire, and patriotism.
Update: Congress overided (is that a word?) presnit bush's veto of the Medicare Bill.
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