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Politics, briefly
Sep. 10th, 2008 02:47 pmI really don't intend to start talking politics, because that's a big sucking black hole that'll destroy me faster than the Hadron collider could.
But I have to get this off my mind: the McCain campaign is already sickening me. An ad that claims Obama's one accomplishment [was] legislation to teach "comprehensive sex education" to kindergarteners? Horrid manipulation of the truth. (He voted in favor of age-appropriate sex-ed in K-12, which for kindergarteners wouldn't be "comprehensive", it would include things like warning them about sexual predators and inappropriate touching.)
And calling Obama sexist and claiming that he's attacking Palin when he says of McCain's policies "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig"? Stupid, insulting, distracting. Oh, no, wait, sorry; Obama phrased it as "You can put lipstick on a pig—it's still a pig"; the other quote was what McCain said about Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
Seeing the 30-second ads on TV are bad enough; anything you say in 30 seconds is going to be an attack of some sort, though Obama's at least have been about McCain's policies, not his character. I'm not sure I can take two more months of this kind of horrible swift-boating reality-twisting context-ignoring crap.
But I have to get this off my mind: the McCain campaign is already sickening me. An ad that claims Obama's one accomplishment [was] legislation to teach "comprehensive sex education" to kindergarteners? Horrid manipulation of the truth. (He voted in favor of age-appropriate sex-ed in K-12, which for kindergarteners wouldn't be "comprehensive", it would include things like warning them about sexual predators and inappropriate touching.)
And calling Obama sexist and claiming that he's attacking Palin when he says of McCain's policies "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig"? Stupid, insulting, distracting. Oh, no, wait, sorry; Obama phrased it as "You can put lipstick on a pig—it's still a pig"; the other quote was what McCain said about Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
Seeing the 30-second ads on TV are bad enough; anything you say in 30 seconds is going to be an attack of some sort, though Obama's at least have been about McCain's policies, not his character. I'm not sure I can take two more months of this kind of horrible swift-boating reality-twisting context-ignoring crap.