November 4th Election Day

Election day is on its way and the race to the White House is neck and neck. Both candidates from each party are struggling to gain more votes and they are visiting and revisiting all the undecided states.

Each candidate has also come across some negative energy upon their campaign. Some Republicans are worried that nominated VP Sarah Palin is bringing down their campaign due to her wacky personality. Although Tina Fey's impressions of Palin have given this country much needed laughter during our economic downfall, nobody can really take Palin seriously and many believe she isn't qualified for the position. Many are also worried about John McCain and his future actions. If he was serious about wanting Sarah Palin as his VP, think about who he would appoint to other political office if he is elected President. Democratic nominee Barack Obama has been resting at a comfortable position with a led of 50 to 44%. Senator Obama has been in the news also about how he isn't qualified to be president because he was only in office for 173 something days. The media and the Republican party have been reporting on Obama's ethnicity and saying he is Muslim and not American so he shouldn't be allowed to run for office. It was reported that two white supremacists had planned to assassinate Mr. Obama and many more are angry that he is allowed to run.

Along with that, both party's have come up with political slogans. The Democrat's are running with "it's time for a change" and the Republicans have came up with "Joe the Plumber", they even have a mascot.

With this election around every corner, I personally cant wait until all this is over. We are so focused on who is going to win and what new information can the other party bring up about the other, we are forgetting about how our economy is in a recession and we are still in a war.

I guess on the good side, gas is going down for now...

Disrupting the Youth

California is in a big battle with gay marriage.
Prop. 8 supporters say that voting yes would not allow gay marriage to be legal.
Being against Prop. 8 means you want the rule on gay marriage to stay valid as it is currently in California.
Besides gay marriage hurting heterosexual marriages, now the supporters say it will disrupt the youth. They are discussing how gay marriage will have to be taught in school and how it will confuse the children and bring up a lot of tough questions.
The opposing side says that the supporters just came up with stuff to scare the public and it might actually be working. But what the public needs to understand is, this Prop. has nothing to do with children. This is solely focused on whether or not gay marriage should be legal.
There was a legal case in Massachusetts when a lesbian teacher read a story to her class about to princesses getting married. The parents of a child sued the school and lost the case. This is so ridiculous. The Supreme Court even refused to hear the case and the ruling was kept by the lower court. Now the supporters are going to use this Christian family in an advertisement for voting Yes on Prop. 8
There is nothing in the state eduction code that requires school's to teach anything to do with marriage, so why bring up gay marriage? Because it's different. Are they going to do experiments in there science class too about gay marriage.
I myself, a homosexual is against Prop. 8 and I wished I lived in California so I could vote No on this Proposition. To bad I live in Texas, the reddest, religious, conservative state there is.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-gayschools19-2008oct19,0,7459783.story

Won't Someone Bail Me Out?

This Houston Chronicle journalist, conservative, named Kathleen McKinley compares the bailout plan to Hurricane Ike in her blog titled, Hurricane Bailout. Her target audience is the public, conservatives, and congressional members.

She starts by describing the events that were happening before Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Coast in September. She went to the grocery store and loaded on up on supplies and gasoline. No other Galveston residents were following her procedures because the skies were clear blue with white wispy white clouds. Over 40% of residents stay in Galveston even after the mandatory evacuation. McKinley says the residents stayed in town because there weren’t any visible signs of a terrible storm coming to shore except for the media’s warnings.

McKinley states that she is a very cautious person, generally. And when she was told to leave town, she did without hesitation. Now she feels that if this bailout plan doesn’t pass, the markets will crash and America will suffer a big loss.

Even though she states that she thinks the bill “stinks” and it’s not American’s fault. McKinley has been going back and forth on this issue, but like most Republican Conservative’s this always follow along with all the others.

I, a liberal, of course disagree with McKinley. We do not want to put the government in charge of businesses. Then we would be compared to the Chinese, North Korean, and Cuban governments. These banks have gone bankrupt, why should we get this out of the hole? Why should we reward them? There are many solutions, and by bailing them out, will either mean the government will have a bigger debt or the citizens will have higher taxes.

I agree with Lou Dobbs, who McKinley states in her blog. He doesn’t support the bailout and he thinks there will be no major disaster in the markets.