Donation for Change

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - Georg C. Lichtenberg

All that is on my mind as of late is politics. It is part of being a political junkie or at the least caring about the future of this country. I feel like we are getting tricked again the way we were tricked in 2000 and 2004 by Karl Rove and the Republicans. How can one party have control over Washington for 7 of the last 10 administrations including the last 8 years and tell us that Washington is broken and they are the ones to fix it. Republicans had control over the white house and congress when Bush came into office and got to do as they pleased and now we are paying for those decisions. Nothing trickled down and deregulation led to Enron and the mortgage crisis. Then you hear Republicans attack the Democratic do nothing congress and I want to go insane. Without 60 votes they can't do anything in the Senate and for whatever reason Democrats still bend to the will of Republicans out of what must be fear (ie wiretapping and drilling.) We need new leadership.

I watched Wednesday night with much anticipation for the Palin speech. Wow, what a hit job that was. Aside from the fact that disagree with everything Palin stands for, and the fact that 80% of what she was saying were falsehoods, distortions and lies, she was one shrill, sarcastic mean Tracy Flick (movie Election) type person. My stomach literally hurt while watching the speech, I wasn't inspired, I was scared that we might have a president who believes in creationism, thinks global warming is natural and whose experience doesn't match up to anyone who ran in the primaries on both sides. One who is willing to say anything just to divide America and win the election. It was sharp I admit, but really McCain...what happened to you?

Today for the first time in my life, I donated money to a campaign . I went online and sent $25 to Obama to help fight for a better country. Last night was the last straw. Update: Obama Raises $8 Million After Palin Speech

Barack Obama's camp issued a statement in response to Sarah Paln's speech:
"The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years."

Jim Manley, Reid's press secretary, told CNN. "Shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base, but they don't change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed bush-Cheney policies."

Jon Stewart Hits Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris On Sarah Palin Hypocrisy:

While Rove recently praised Palin's experience as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Stewart showed video of Rove trashing Virginia Governor — and former Richmond Mayor — Tim Kaine's executive experience, listing all the cities that are bigger than Richmond and calling such a pick "political."
Then, after recent video of O'Reilly describing Bristol Palin's pregnancy as a family issue, Stewart showed a clip of the Fox News host blaming Jamie Lynn Spears' parents for her teenage pregnancy.
Finally, after showing video of Dick Morris complaining about the rampant sexism in the media coverage of Sarah Palin, Stewart unveiled a clip of Morris saying that Hillary hides behind the sexism defense, and that anytime "the big boys" pick on Hillary, "she retreats behind the apron strings."

As far as the Media goes: the Politico Apologizes To Sarah Palin On Behalf Of Elite Media: my favorite part of the article below. If only the media would fight back and actually do their job.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry. We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice? Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

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Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”

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Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to. Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq. Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried. Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign.

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