Republicans...Talk About Ethnic Cleansing...Still 99.2% Lily White

Did anyone else notice that in the hours and hours of tv shots from all the media at the Republican convention, that the overwhelming majority of delegates were white folk, often older men and women?

After some digging for facts, turns out less than 1% of the delegates were people of color. Republicans...not really representative of the broad melting pot of today's American ethnic and cultural face.

Talk about ethnic cleansing!

Dear Santa, Please Help, A Lipsticked, Bitch, Pit Bull Has Attacked America

A week has passed since right-wing America's favorite poster dog was let loose to bite and attack at will. Here is my greatest wish:

Dear Santa,

Can you please issue an immediate recall on the two top dog, intellectually defective McCain/Palin robots your wonderful elves built and delivered recently? The recall should also include their millions of believers across America.

Independent testing has documented that excessive lead has poisoned their brains and paralyzed their critical thinking and truth telling skills. Their Republican brains have lost the last of the little common sense they had. Santa, it seems like the elves accidentally inserted air-filled, puffy white marshmallows into their little craniums. to match their lily white bodies.

Santa, I've always believed in you. I still remember when you gave me the first gift of Christmas so many years ago. I know, I lost the bell on the train, but you gave me a second chance when you returned it to me on Christmas morning.

The big robots and all their little robot clones can't hear the tinkle of the bell anymore. That's why I'm hoping you can fix them in your recall. It's too late for John McCain and seems to be too late for the bitch pitbull with lipstick, but the little robots need to try real hard to understand that America needs a VP who has been thoroughly vetted over a period of time greater than that measured in hours?

Santa, if the recall doesn't happen soon, then you will likely be forced to retire and believers especially children all over the world will lose all hope in a better world.

I know the recall might take a while, Santa, so in the mean time, could you do a few more favors for all the true believers before America becomes even more of an embarrassment around the world especially if McCain/Palin continue to be so mean and deceitful?

Could you please start by vaporizing the tight choke collar and leash McCain and his Republican handlers have around Sarah Palin's neck? After all, what kind of highly qualified VP nominee like Sarah Palin allows herself to be muzzled? If she is as fantastic as all the robots say, she would be highly capable of speaking for herself without scripted speeches written by Republican/Bush loyalists.

And maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin would be able to answer questions from all over America and the world so we can get to know each other better before we're forced into a shotgun wedding.

Santa, Santa, are you there?

"Duck, Duck, Palin" - McCain/Palin Update #2

While the McCain (now McCain/Palin) campaign continues to reel after the numerous and previously undisclosed revelations about McCain's choice for VP, Sarah Palin, here are a few ramblings.

McCain's new "country first" theme was rolled out at the convention. Putting country first is a concept the Republicans have seemingly declared exclusive to them.

If McCain truly wanted to put country first before personal political convenience, he would stand together with Palin on stage at the RNC tonight and deliver a speech withdrawing Palin as a candidate for the VP job.

For me, it's not really about Palin and her unsettling history and do as I say not as I do ways. Nor is it about the continuing revelations of family turmoil, her past abuses of power or hiring lobbyists to generate earmarks she took, or the pending investigation (s?) against her, and all the other matters that have thusfar been so widely written about and those yet to be uncovered.

(5) It has to do with qualifications and trust. Who is most trustworthy in decision-making? Who has the most thorough experience, knowledge, intelligence and reasoning ability, education, maturity, stable under fire, and the mental and emotional stability to assume the Presidency? Who is secure enough to surround himself or herself with smart, wise, experienced people who are encouraged to be forthright even blunt in advising the President?

The Presidency and VP positions are not positions to be learned on the fly or from campaign aides on the McCain's private jet or in Palin's hotel room or campaign bus.

Look at what we got with George. With the most recent exception of Bill Clinton, Americans, generally, demonstrate uninformed judgments about candidates' qualifications for elected office. A frightening and growing majority of voters are increasingly issue (and just plain) illiterate usually putting convenient sound bites above substance. The MTV generation of empty non-thinkers.

Bush has destroyed so much that once made me proud. I am still proud of America and can cry at the playing of our national anthem and be as patriotic as anyone. I still support our presidency and system of governance and all Americans working hard to better our country here and abroad.

Bush is leaving office with our country saddled with deficits in the trillions. His lies, power players, and self-deceit have cost America dearly. Thousands of our soldier's killed and maimed, thousands of their family members devastated by their deaths and mutilation in wars we have not and will not win.

Despite the mightiest and most technologically superior military in the world and fighting against third world enemies, The United States people have not been relieved of our suffering caused by the stupidity of an intellectually/judgment compromised President, his "yes" men and other guilty players in his administration.

Bush leaves record unemployment with millions of jobs sent oversees. He leaves record profits for his oil friends while the American public suffocates under record high gas prices. He leaves a record high number of Americans without decent health coverage. He leaves a record number of ERs shuttered and our health care costs soaring while insurers reap record profits.

He leaves a destroyed New Orleans because he convinced himself FEMA and our American government were doing a great job in response to Katrina while he celebrated with his friend John McCain at his birthday party in Arizona.

He leaves America's worldwide reputation for trustworthiness, compassion, morality, and economic strength won with our blood, sweat and tears, in a shambles.

Bill Clinton, despite inheriting record deficits from the previous Republican administration, concluded his term with record surpluses. He strengthened America's standing with our ally nations around the world. He revitalized the hopes of our citizens. Blowjobs in the Oval Office? Doggy-style over the bidet? I'm ok with that if it strengthens our domestic economy and enhances America's standing in the world.

Palin...no substantial, relevant knowledge/experience on nationwide domestic issues nor dealing with them on a national level, nor any relevant knowledge/experience in international relations and global issues.

McCain...a maverick, loose cannon who usally fires from his emotional hip. A consumate politician and manipulator. Why else would an Arizona senator go to the gulf coast during a storm other than to showboat? He has some of the qualifications but he always seems to arrive at the wrong answer on so many issues. And, when is he ever going to stop playing the
40+ year old Vietnam War POW card? Some, think it was his "maverick" actions on that mission that got him shot down. He suffered tremendously. Sure, but it has little to do with being President in a 21st century America and world.

Biden...he has all the qualifications in abundance.

Obama...see paragraph (5).