The State of the Conservative Union(s)

I'm sick of Conservatives.

I'm sick of tolerance for the lot of them and their insanity.  I've had to listen to conservatives rave about the ultra-conservative poster boy Mitt Romney and how devastating it is that John McCain is going to be the nominee.  He's not a true conservative - oh the humanity!

How does the flip-flopping, once pro-choice, pro-gun control, tax hiking Governor embody Conservatism?  Please, twenty points to anyone who can answer that.  If he embodies Conservatism because he's willing to sell his soul and integrity to suck up to the narrow minded assholes on the right then, yes, I get it.  Somehow, I just don't think that's what the Conservatives crying at CPAC this week are thinking.  Or is it?

There's a thought.  George W. Bush was a maleable candidate, one who the neo-conservatives could bend and shape as they pleased.  Sell a failed businessman as a saavy texas oil man?  Check.  Sell the dumbfuck (and I'm sorry, but there's no other word for that waste of flesh and bones ) as the wise son of a former President, benefiting from years of behind the scenes know-how.  Sell his failed legacy of education reform in Texas as a blueprint for nation-wide programs?  Check.

Now here's Mitt Romney.  A pile of clay.  "What, you say you don't like pro-choicers?  OK, my bad - abortions evil, let me tell you a story about why I've always thought so..."  "Being a xenophobic neanderthal doesn't sell?  Let me tell you about how I watched my father march with Martin Luther King Jr....figuratively, of course."  "Wait!  Being a xenophobic neanderthal DOES sell - let's build a giant fence on the south (though, curiously, not along the north) and deport all illegal mexica- I mean IMMIGRANTS."

John McCain, despite being pro-war, pro-life, anti-gun-control, who let the neo-cons concoct a ridiculous narrative of him as a wigged out crazy vietnam vet despite his service record (and lack of Bush's) in 2000 just in the hopes that if he didn't rock the boat tooooo much he'd have a shot a few years later at the Presidency and lo and behold!  Here he is!  Why don't the neo-cons like him?  Well he's admitedly stunted in the ways of the economy (hasn't stopped our current President, but hey, nobody's perfect).  But I don't think it's that.  I think it's because he actually thinks for himself.  That's not to say what he thinks is wise or remotely acceptable in civilization (100 more years in Iraq, really John?).  

But there's hope, conservatives...  Recently he's shown that, actually, he will change his mind to garner your dubious favor.  "You don't like my immigration policy  - OK just joking, please don't boo me!"  "You really like one of your people near the little red button?  OK, Huckabee'll hop on board right after he cries Uncle."

There's hope.  Hope for a better tomorrow.  Let's overturn Roe V. Wade.  Assault Rifles are perfectly legal and let's constitutionally protect teachers who feel the need for an AK-47 in their desk drawer because accidents never, ever happen.  QUICK - name one time a gun in a school prevented anything...nothing?  I thought so.

Warrantless wiretaps on innocent Americans?  Check
A justice department that will protect the scumbag lying shit of a President at all costs?  Check

John McCain for President?  On second thought.  Sure.

Penguin Stock Market endorses Barack Obama

We all feel what is happening to the world right now and America's diminishing standing in it. We have - all of us, no matter our political affiliation or religious views - that feeling that something is wrong and that we as a people deserve better. This is not a decline that has happened overnight, or even in the past seven years, or even in the past twenty years. This did not start with a Clinton or a Bush, a Kennedy or a Reagan. It began when the citizens of America ceded leadership to an elite few, with their own set of priorities and objectives. It's a story as old as time. Throughout history there are countless examples. When the masses become lazy, disinterested and complacent their will shall fall on the deaf ears of their leaders. Here we are now. 2008. The will of the people has been absent from the halls of Washington for a very long time. Republicans and Democrats alike share responsibility for where we are today. And now, days before the largest primary in American history, we have a chance to send a different message to every person in this country and throughout the world. America is better than this. We are all, regardless of nationality, citizens of a single world and we all deserve better.


Senator Barack Obama believes this. He is the candidate, I believe the only candidate, who can heal the divisions in this world. He can reach across this country and bring Republican and Democrats, young people and older people, citizens of every race together at last. His message is one of Hope and Change – much to his opponents delight. They want you to believe it's naïve to Hope, much less for Change. Think about that for a moment. The state of our union that Hope and Change are negatives. They are ideas that we must all closely guard for fear of ridicule and mockery. Hope and Change isn't a bumper sticker. It isn't rhetoric. It's real and it's been missing from our lives for much too long. He wants us to have it back in a real way. He believes that our Government is accountable to each of us, and that we each have a right and a responsibility to invest in our leaders and our future. This is not rhetoric. This is not wishful thinking. This is the way the world can be if we want it to be.

This election is bigger than 2008. It is bigger than the United States. It is an election that will affect the course of the world from this day until the end of time. That's not hyperbole. The stakes are that high. The greatest Nation on Earth has the chance to choose compassion, unity and forgiveness over the partisan nightmare we've been living for too long. If we cannot make that choice now, if we cannot choose the Candidate that epitomizes a better world and wants US to make the better choices, then when will we?

There will never be a better time for those of us who want a better world to stand up and in one voice make our choice known. Barack Obama is one of us. It is therefore true that a vote for him is a vote for us.

Please, if you have a chance to vote in theses Primaries, cast your ballot for Barack Obama.