Oh, dear God.
So I was on Usmagazine.com. Yesterday, Heidi Montag (who is on the Hills, I guess?) said that she was voting for John McCain and today he said (on the site) that he was honored she was voting for him and that he never misses an episode of the Hills.
I hope to God he was joking. I really don't want a president who watches the Hills.
I've never seen it, so maybe it's far more brilliant than I presume. But based on what I've read in Us, I doubt it.
I'm guessing that he was kidding or maybe trying to be all, "See? I know I'm older than the others, but I'm cool. I'm hip. Vote for me!"
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WTF?
What. The. Fuck???
When I'm not bone tired I will quote from a real journalist who quickly found that they and some other publications just hire "beautiful people" to write stories for them-- folks that don't necessarily have journalism experience, schooling, or training.
It's not that far up from the tabloids, so really... consider the source.
I totally agree. But at the same time, anyone with any sort of training knows that you're not allowed to say, "John McCain said, `I never miss an episode of The Hills.'"
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/04/swampland_exclusive_mccain_rea.html
Oh, sweet God, it apparently is true. I despair for our country if he wins.
I don't like Hillary. I know she is being held up as "the woman's vote", but to be honest, I liked Elizabeth Dole better, the last woman who sought a presidental nomination. Hillary's gender does not matter-- I honestly do not like her politics.
Obama is looking good, but I've done my homework, and he's definitely not bulletproof. Most are downsides I can overlook, but I am concerned he might not clinch the nomination.
As far as the Republican nominee:
McCain is known as a "maverick" Republican. His voting record is most conservative, but I think he's willing to vote against the party if he feels the need-- no matter what platitudes he spoke to the GOP.
There are two sides to the perspective on the Iraqi war, and I am slow to really discredit either. I think most agree now that this was a can of worms that should not have been opened. There is sharp disagreement over what caused the war, but I do believe that it is very likely that the neocons, no matter how much they tout "spreading democracy", are doing it to stabilize oil interests abroad. Saddam Hussein was a known U.S. ally until he seized control of the Kuwaiti pipeline... the rest is pretty much history.
McCain is an old war dog. I have more confidence that he may actually do things right; there is blistering proof that Rumsfeld and others marched to the beat of their own drum and did not really listen to the concerns and information of the actual troops out there. I genuinely doubt that a man who was tortured in another controversial war will do the wrong things; I think he may yet patch up the job.
My vote is nevertheless for Obama presently as I believe domestic concerns are a higher priority at this time. It is a shame that there is not one party that has equal strength in foreign and domestic affairs. For a multiplicity of reasons, including this one, do I believe the main political parties are broken. The Democrats were shattered long ago, and the GOP is a lumbering Frankenstein that bears little resemblance to its incarnation of old.
There is a reason I am an Independent, and I grow very, very weary of partisan whining, with fairly little talk about proactive solutions. I realize that federal politics is a subject much easier discussed far and wide with people that can more broadly relate to it, but I am very disappointed that if such broad appeal is the point, we are not discussing such similar issues with friends abroad. The immigration debate alone is one topic that has resonance and relevance outside of the U.S.
I am really, really perplexed that there is so much flap over a presidential candidate basically admitting he acknowledged an endorsement. Busy on the campaign trail, I very much doubt he honestly has time to follow any TV show on a regular basis... I also sincerely doubt if he had one, The Hills would be it. He speaks as a politician, and moaning over dumb fluff stories like this seems silly: TIME ain't above fluff, either.
With that, I'm out of here.
You'd think Hillary is getting the women's vote, right? But she's not--it's actually going to Barack Obama. I really like him and I voted for him in the primary. If Hillary gets the nomination (and I don't think she will), I'll vote for her over McCain although I don't like her politics any more than you do. I don't like the way she's running her campaign and the fact that she's saying about anything she can think of to get elected (including out and out lying) and then when she gets called on it, calls it a "misstatement."
Well, I've heard that George Bush was looking for basically any reason possible to invade Iraq (which I can believe, given the fact that he gave us at least three different reasons, pretending each was the reason the whole time). So yeah, I don't think McCain will be determined to keep us there, long after any sort of common sense will say, "This was a mistake. Bring the troops home."