Tupto

McLame - literal and figurative meaning here
McShame - as in he has none
McBain - obscure reference to the Simpsons
McSame - four more years of Bush policies only will be renamed toMcCain policies
McCane - because he’s old
McPain - what Americans will have for four years if McCain is elected
McBane - as in death, destruction, harm and ruin
McReign - as in terror
McInsane - self explanatory
McBlame - Obama did it
McWane - what will happen over time just like his buddy George

CNN: “Until a week ago, only a relatively few outside Alaska knew of that state’s governor, Sarah Palin. All that is different now. To many in Palin’s hometown, the GOP vice presidential candidate’s near-iconic status is well-deserved. After all, the high school basketball star and former beauty queen rose from Wasilla City Council member to Alaska’s first female governor in less than 14 years.”

Are you serious? So being a high school basketball star and a beauty queen turns governor in 14 years is deserving of iconic status and what Barck Obama has done in near equal time isn’t? He has risen fast and furious, but he wasn’t a high school basketball star or beauty queen no, he was a community organizer for the underprivileged more than tripling its budget, the Harvard Law Review editor, then elected president of the Review, then becoming a state senator (in a state with more than 10 people - yeah, I can be a smart ass too, just like Palin) then a US senator.

As I watched the Palin acceptance speech it showed her hometown crowd via satellite. They are all cheering like she was the sister of each one of them, wait a minute, maybe she was, ha ha ha ha. Anyway, all of those people will be voting for her for the sole reason she is from their town, just like I heard that idiot in Texas say she didn’t know who to vote for because there hasn’t been a Bush, a Texan, on the ticket in years. Friggn’ morons.

The point I keep trying to make is not that one is better than the other, but these people are talking out of both sides of their mouths. Don’t sit there and gripe about something you yourself can be accused of and do it so blatantly too.

People, people, people, when will they learn?

Overall I thought he did well. There was at times where it seemed he stumbled and forced smiled. He also sometimes contradicted Palin, as in where McCain stated he would fight Union bosses, yet Palin’s husband is in a union.

I agreed with most of what he had to say, it is just a matter if he will follow through, can he follow through, or will remember to follow through. Palin may be too abrasive of a running mate for him, not sure if it is her lack of broader public service that makes her appear unprofessional in how she attacks her opponent, but it was in appropriate and could be easily argued against.

I understand the importance of a strong military, but that does not mean we always have to be in some sort of conflict with some other nation. Maybe if we focused more on the home front and got America in order maybe people around the world wouldn’t hate us so much and the need to focus so much on external enemies would decrease and could be handled in a much different manner. In the meantime we can build a super strong military with the intention of never using it. I mean you have to admit our home front is suffering and is in a state of disrepair and neglect. If we took half of what we spent on the war and gave used it for scholarships alone that would put a whole generation through college. If we used the other half to invest in alternative energy including using our own natural resources after the six years we’ve been at it over there, I would bet we’d have at least one significant breakthrough and on the verge of many more, even if that meant drilling in areas not allowed in the past, that oil and natural gas would have come to fruition by now.

It is time to shift focus. I understand we are a global economy and you can’t neglect the outside world, but if we are rotting away by mismanagement and lack of focus on what is important we will fail. It’s like making yourself beautiful on the outside, getting your hair done, being well manicured, and getting plastic surgery, meanwhile you are taking drugs to look keep slim and to deal with the life you are leading, you don’t eat right because you are too stressed, you don’t exercise because you are already slim, you take anti-depressants just to deal with what you have become. In other words, it is a façade. You look great on the outside, but inside there is nothing there, your organs are failing and the only thing keeping you going is synthetic substances.

We can do the world more good if we had our act together first. I don’t think many nations look upon America as the once strong nation it was, and we are not the same strong nation as we once were.