I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop! don’t do it!”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he said.
I said: Well, there’s so much to live for!
He said: Like what?
I said: The Bush era is almost over! Are you a Democrat or a Republican?
He said: Democrat.
I said: Me too! Are you a liberal, a moderate, or a conservative?
He said: Liberal.
I said: Me too! Would you like a president like John McCain, who will talk about global warming, but offer only a weak industry friendly approach to dealing with it, or do you agree with the Democratic candidates that we need to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050?
He said: Reduce emissions by 80%!
I said: Me too! Would you like John McCain, who wouldn’t mind if the Iraq War lasted another 10,000 years, or would you prefer the approach of the Democratic candidates, who vow to start pulling us out next year??
He said: Out of Iraq!
I said: Me too! Do you agree with the Democratic candidates that even after we pull out, we should keep the boondoggle “embassy,” which is projected to cost us $1.3 billion a year; or do you think that’s not a complete pullout, and a waste of money?
He said: I think “out of Iraq” means no boondoggle embassy!
I said: Me too! Do you agree with John McCain that we have the best medical care system in the world, or do you agree with the Democratic candidates that we need to improve the system and expand access?
He said: Improve the health care system and expand access!
I said: Me too! Do you prefer the Democratic candidates’ incrementalist approach to improving the health care system and expanding access, or do you think we should have single-payer national health care?
He said: Single payer national health care!
I said: Me too! And do you agree with John McCain that our energy policy is bascially on the right track, or do you agree with the Democratic candidates that we need to aggressively develop clean renewable energy sources?
He said: Clean renewables!
I said: Me too! And do you agree with the Democratic candidates that it’s worth wasting billions of dollars to develop and store the waste from more nuclear power plants, or do you think we shouldn’t consider replacing one problem with another?
He said: No nukes!
I said: Me too! And do you agree with the Democratic candidates that we need to use the government to solve the mortgage crisis, or do you agree with John McCain, that we should wait and see what else happens?
He said: The government must step in!
I said: Me too! So, are you voting for a candidate who is ready to lead on day one, or are you fired up and ready to go for change you can believe in?
He told me who he would vote for, and…
I said: Die, DINO scum!
…and pushed him off!
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I miss John Edwards running. at least he caused them to address issuses once in a while. They even had to create or steal form him a universal health care plan.
I know, I know…it’s just a dumb poll but it scares the bejeezus out of me anyway. I remember previous years when I didn’t believe that there was a chance that people would be so stupid as to vote for the cluelessly senile Reagan, or the incompetent frat boy (not once, but twice!!), but they were, and they did.
Now, it’s obvious to those who are paying attention that McCain is McClueless, but unfortunately, too many people aren’t paying attention, still. And our Democratic candidates & their supporters have reveled in their campaign civil war, while Sen. McClueless, smiling his good ole boy smile, has gone on one TeeVee program after another telling his little jokes that the viewers so love to hear.
Today, he did get asked a few tough questions by–no, not Tim Russert, not Faux “news” anchors, not Wolf Blitzer–but– The View’s Joy Behar: (emphasis mine)
And no one willing to call BS on McCain’s BS answers: 1. Re-“educational benefits”:
Re: All those “volunteers” that McCain is counting on for his neverending war: Young Officers Leaving Army at a High Rate. Maybe John “I Don’t Know Much About the Economy” McCain’s strategy to avoid the draft and still get all those “volunteers” for his military is to make sure that unemployment is so high that the military will be the only jobs available.
Maybe I’ll join that guy on the bridge…
Out of Iraq w/no embasssy? X
Single Payer? X
Clean/Renewable (this would X clean coal or nuke)? X for one for sure and maybe the other. This relates also to your first question, since clean coal isn’t an 80% emissions cleaner, much like E85 from corn isn’t either.
Mortgage Crisis? too early to tell.
So, maybe one non-x amongst them with the mortgage crisis too early to tell.
Either one of them’s a DINO and should be tossed off the bridge. Metaphically speaking, that is.
in the fall of 1969. My last year in law school. When you could get some great discussions in university bars.
Problem is, this isn’t 1969. Young people (and their parents, for the most part) don’t have to worry about the current war.
So the war (occupation, really) will go on, no matter who’s elected. Tune out. Drop out.
It’s an instant classic.
Heh. Spot on, as the kidz would say. Or whatever it is they say that means spot on.
By 2050? They will do nothing until the actual date, and by then it will be too late. A more realistic analysis is given by Walden Bello in the recent Asia Times Online: “Psychologically and politically, however, the North at this point does not likely have what it takes to meet the problem head-on.”
Are any of the major candidates actually going to leave the embassy behind?
How about if we “expand access” by requiring people to fund the current boondoggle of a system? (That’s what Clinton is planning to do.) You’d think that if they were unemployed and going broke, those last dollars would be better spent on something other than health insurance — even if it were just an effort to get to Mexico to buy health care there…
Great! Now find me a candidate who’s promising it. (Well, there’s Ralph Nader…)
Nobody, of course, is promoting the only real solution to abrupt climate change: cap the wells, abandon the mines…
Is anyone promising this?
Or maybe they’ll just hand over major seigniorage powers to the Fed…
Meanwhile the world is convulsed by food riots. So John McCain isn’t makin’ it real. Is Clinton? Is Obama? Ecosocialism or barbarism.