Monday, May 26, 2008

Who Wants to Lose?

I was sent a link to a video about John McCain, called 'The Real McCain'. Part of their advertising includes the following script:

This is truly spectacular: within 24 hours, The Real McCain 2 has skyrocketed to over half a million views! It's the #1 most viewed video on YouTube right now, and it's getting loads of love on Digg as well. These numbers put us right up there with many cable news shows, as you can see from the ratings. The difference between us and them, however, is that we're spreading our message virally through the web. We're also spreading the truth about John McCain.

This incredible feedback clearly indicates that what the general public wants to see (and what the corporate press has failed to show) is an accurate portrayal of McCain. So continue to pass this video along to all of your family, friends, and colleagues. We need to end the mainstream media's love affair with McCain, and we need to end it now!

Frustration is one word that comes to mind. Perhaps we should step back, reassess, and appreciate the fact both sides want to win,and will say whatever it takes, to win.

The TRUTH? Well, is it truth to tell your side of an interpretation of the other side? Even if you believe it is true, is it the TRUTH. Your opinion / interpretation of the opposition candidate - is it TRUE because you believe it, because you manipulate video to make it say what you want it to say, because you will do anything to get your candidate elected. Both sides believe that way, but we the people should understand that the truth is not isolated in the speech or fumbled words, it is located in their plans, bills, actions, deeds, desires, wants ...

What is the title about: The Real McCain: Less Jobs, More War. The Real McCoy is the original from which the Real McCain was derived, a play on words and perfectly acceptable. Less jobs - and where will the jobs go? Republicans take your jobs away and Democrats make jobs is what the statement implies.

More jobs via the government can only happen with BIGGER government. Yet it is the Democrats or at least the extreme left-wing of the party who scream about government that intrudes into your personal lives.

My question - when government is so big and so encompassing, how on earth can it NOT intrude. By its very nature of being so large as to provide the jobs, it would intrude into the personal lives. Government cares, so intrusion isn't so bad, say the far left, unless it has to do with their sex practices. Yet caring is rather subjective isn't it? To save money on insurance premiums, we will force smokers to pay 2x what they currently pay, as an incentive to stop smoking, after all - smoking is bad.

Overweight people - same issue. The government wants to protect you, help you live longer, and to do that, it may need to raise premiums as an incentive to lose the weight and save the money. After all - being very heavy is bad for your health.

Laws regulating radio - to prevent hate speech and encourage civil dialogue - after all, laws are not intended to interfere with free speech, just to prevent hate speech that hurts innocent people.

Government cares - about smoking, obesity, and hate speech. Consequently, laws regulating or preventing bad behavior are ok ... but are they. It is still government intrusion into our personal lives, but for the left-wing, this degree of intrusion is good, but heaven help us if the government wanted to regulate the minimum age a girl could have an abortion. The hysteria that would erupt - the intrusion and violation of a woman's body, not to mention a violation of the 14th Amendment.

We each want to win. Your lunatic beliefs are as dangerous in my opinion as my views are to you. Yet characterizing me as a religious zealot is simplistic and false, just as characterizing you as walking vomit would be inaccurate.

Big government is bad and I do not understand how the left loons cannot understand that for their central thesis in life is free speech and free whatever whenever at whatever time and with whomever they wish ... do you really think that a government that controls weight and smoking in your own home, will not eventually control and dictate who you can and cannot have sex with? You are naive and dangerous if you do not.

So this bigger government will provide jobs by hiring people and will pay these people???? With our tax dollars = higher taxes. Versus - let private enterprise hire and pay for their employees off profits from selling or building or doing what business does. Government doesn't do anything - it contracts with someone to hire people and in the process pays fees, which, to hire millions of people, would amount to tens of millions in fees that would otherwise be used on people.

The Real McCain = less jobs and more war. So what is this more war bit? Under Ronald Reagan we did not get an invasion of El Salvador by December 1982 as Martin Sheen had predicted most assuredly (a speech he gave in Arizona at a college). We actually had less worldwide conflict under Reagan than under Carter. And it was not because Reagan wanted to negotiate for the sake of negotiation. So is that why we would have more war? Because McCain does not believe we should negotiate for the sake of negotiation without conditions? Their simplicity and foolishness is beyond understanding. Why will we have more war? Because McCain said we would be in Iraq for 100 years? Well, we may well be there for fifty years, but before you have an apoplectic fit - it doesn't mean we will fight for fifty years, nor that there will be war, rather - our military may well be in Iraq for fifty years just as we have been in Germany. That explanation is less appealing to the looney left than taking McCain's statement and ignoring reality. The looney-left live in a fantasy world where we do not have war, government gives jobs, and we all live happily-ever-after. Disney.

Don't vote for McCain because of something substantive - you think we should allow illegals in here and we shouldn't have a border. We shouldn't be in Iraq because we are more evil than al qaida. Vote for reasons that make sense, not because of such trifling ignorant and insipid statements as those made by The Real McCain 2, at least you would be honest.

Make Mine Freedom - 1948


American Form of Government

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