- Paul (Obsolete Units)

Bookie obviously missed the point that McCain chose Palin precisely because she was NOT the typical GOP politician.

1.) Pay Attention
2.) Do the research
3.) Belittling religious beliefs different from your own is patently anti-American. I believe freedom of religion is granted in the First Amendment. This folds back into my points, 1.) and 2.)

On Obama’s reneging his commitment to accept public funding to run his campaign, Joan Claybrook, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said: “Obama has been a champion of ethics reforms and campaign finance reform… . Now that he has decided to opt out of public funding, it will be more difficult for him to show that he has not abandoned the concept and will champion clean elections and ensure that Congress passes much-needed reforms immediately.”

I’m still not sure exactly why all you agents of “Change We Need” barely batted an eye as Barack voted yes to H.R. 6304 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008), giving the green light to further government encroachment upon rights to privacy that prior to George W. Bush had been pretty much intact. He promised he’d vote “no” on that, but when roll call came, he fell in line with the rest of the Business As Usual politicians.

If he takes the election, I wonder how many years it’ll take America to realize he won on the same speech he’s been delivering for over ten years. I mean, if he wants to prove he’s all about change, just delivering a new speech would help.

But more than anything else, his betrayal of Wright and Palmer speak volumes about the kind of “change” Barack will bring.

Make no mistake, Richard Nixon definitely brought change to the White House and the political scene when he won the election in 1968. It wasn’t the change he promised, but it was change. Barack is on course to deliver this same Tricky Dick(TM) brand of change.

That may be the kind of change you crave, but I’d like to see things honest, transparent, reliable, and trustworthy. Every opportunity Barack has to demonstrate those qualities, he fails.

A vote for Barack is a vote for the Same Old Shit.

Your use of catchphrases is as tired and used up as Barack’s old speech, and this sentence:

“The fact that “competent government” would qualify as
“change” is simply a testament to the historical incompetence
of the current administration.”

could easily be taken from any editorial page in 1968 in a letter, column, or article supporting Richard M. Nixon. For those of us who lived through the Nixon Administration, I think we’d all agree that was Change We Most Certainly Did NOT Need.

That said, what people want is competent government that finds efficient solutions to the problems we face without undermining the many things the system already does well (such as providing the aforementioned inhabitants of Chapel Hill/Carrboro hipsterdom with the idle time to equip themselves with skinny jeans and fragments of ideas obtained from skimming Gramsci and Marcuse to bewilder their parents with rather than toiling in the fields or repairing their single pair of socks). The fact that “competent government” would qualify as “change” is simply a testament to the historical incompetence of the current administration. So as long as “business as usual” politics actually results in taking care of business (climate change, Iraq, terrorism, health care), that’s change I’ll take.

I just saw Melvins and Big Biz on August 9th and they put on an awesome show!