Bonnie Fuller: Doesn't Make Any Sense

Read this blog, and then read my response:

Bonnie Fuller: Don't Count Saint Sarah Palin Out for President in 2012!

Ok, for one thing, stop calling her Saint Palin. She is far from a saint. Saints show compassion, show restraint, and ultimately following the teachings of Christ. She will NEVER be a saint, and thank Christ for that.

Now to Bonnie's argument that she so mavericky that she could upset a Republican primary in other states other than the south (much like Mike Huckabee did, right?), and if she wins the primary she could upset Obama on his reelection bid. Because she doesn't like politics as usual? Poppycock! Because she'll beat Obama's grassroots organization efforts? Bullpucky! Because she so super-fantastic and relatable to the average hockey (?) mom that everyone will vote for her in 2012? No dice!

Let's be frank: she has served as mayor of Wasilla, AK, which has a population less than the area around my house here in Valley Village, CA, and one half of a first-term governorship in one of least populated and least impactful states in the Union. Other then these two government jobs, she's sought out completely different jobs that don't aid her quest for the presidency. Who cares of it is executive experience, it's shit experience. And the whole time she's been governor, she's been hassled by people who think she's breaking the rules. That's not effective.

This is what I see by her resignation for a "higher calling". She was so mad that the press can get away with saying what they want about her because she is a public figure and she has to keep refuting it, even when she makes an ass out of herself (standing in front of turkey-murdering machine). She has to realize that she has become more irrelevant in actual policy making that she cannot be an effective executive. She's more of a gaffe machine than Joe Biden, and that's saying a lot.

She WILL NOT beat Obama in a face off in 2012. It will shocking if she wins enough primaries to win the nomination, but she cannot defeat the juggernaut that is Obama. It would be funny to see her choose McCain as her VP though! I personally think getting out of politics is better for the Republican party, because if she stays in as a consultant or tries to run for national office in some form or another, she is condemning the Republican Party to become as the Whigs had become in the 1850s--unnecessary. She will polarize the base from the rest of the party, the evangelical Christians and uber-conservatives opposite the fiscal conservatives and social centrists who identify Republican. She cannot win with that crowd. She cannot bring religion to government. She cannot even put a phrase together without putting 'also' and 'too' next to each other (in Spanish, it's like saying 'tambien tambien', dumb, I know).

I guess we'll see where this ride takes us, but please for the love all that is good and decent in the world, don't say she's going to overtake the presidency in 2012. It's more than wishful thinking, it's shit you say when you're fucking high on drugs.

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Michelle Bachmann... Part Deux

I found this video while surfing HuffPost:



So what is it with this woman? Is she Joe McCarthy reincarnated? Is it some weird ritual that put his soul into her body, like in The Mummy 2? What is it with her? She spews hate like she's a hate-breathing dragon. I get she has her views on the world, but do they have to be so utterly extreme? Does she have to tell the poor confused moderate part of the country that "re-education camps" are what Obama wants to do? Does she realize that she uses words that are intentionally loaded? Does she not understand that people will take her words literally? Does she not understand that people are dying taking words literally (e.g. the Koran)?

I thought when Barack Obama was elected by a large margin over Old Man and Crazy Hypocrite, the country had agreed that right-wing policies were failing the country as a whole. I guess not, seeing as how left-wing policies need to be stopped at all costs! We cannot elect a liberal-centrist and allow him to change the country the way he sees it! Don't be silly, we elect a liberal, but they must follow conservative agendas. That's how the US works.

Wrong. That's how Michelle Bachmann thinks the country works. Lucky for the rest of us, she doesn't get much of a say int eh House of Reps, seeing she is the in the minority of the minority.

She needs to go away. She needs to get out of national politics. Resign, or something. The Radio hosts says at the beginning of the movie that she hopes MB runs against Amy Klobuchar in 2012 for the Senate seat. I hope she does, because Amy Klobuchar has a bigger chance to win the entire state than Michelle Bachmann can squeeze out in her own district. Then she'll be out of the House and Senate! One can only hope.

However, there is one upside to her spouting off her mouth: She and people like Sarah Palin keep putting their feet further down their mouths, digging the hole of the über-conservative part of the Republican party deeper and deeper.

I guess I'll keep up my crusade against stupid speech. I'll be keeping my eye on her. Don't think Part Deux the last...

Warren Invoked for Obama Inauguration Invocation (Alliteration!)

I'm not sure if I understand what the entire hullabaloo is on Obama choosing Rick Warren for his inauguration invocation.

So, the way I see it, a religious ceremony begins the state ceremony. Not so much separate, but that's another story for another day. It doesn't mean Warren is now apart of Obama's administration, offering any advice, or involved in any decision making or policy debate. I'm not even sure Obama even owes anyone an explanation for the choices he makes.

I get that many minority groups helped get him elected, and he was the way better choice than old man McCain and crazy lady Palin, but I am certain that not every group is going to be happy about every choice he makes. Bottom line is that he can't please everyone at once. He's going to make a certain group happy while he annoys another. He'll then make the one he annoyed happy while making the other annoyed. It's a political cycle that is inherent from human behavior and human nature.

Perhaps then blog posts like Chris Durang's post on The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/gay-and-feeling-hurt-by-o_b_152348.html, feel a little misplaced. He speaks to the fact that Obama has his own reason for choosing Rick Warren, but he feels left out since he is gay. I understand his argument about the non-afflicted not feeling the affliction, but I'm not sure he understands that he too is one that is non-afflicted, such as what faces a young Latina in certain places of the world.

I don't know, maybe I'm so jaded by things, and don't take offense to much, but unless something is really egregious, like Obama saying "All gay people should die," I don't think the gay community should be angered by such a small action of choosing Rick Warren for the invocation, as I believe it will disappear very quickly from the collective consciousness of the nation and the world. It is an historic event, but to focus on such a small bit of it seems, like I said, misplaced, and nitpicky. I don't think an invocation is necessary for an inauguration, but seems religion is a powerful force in culture, I let it alone. I know that Rick Warren has horrible views on homosexuality, and that he supported Prop 8, but I can't fault Obama from doing what he wants at his own inauguration.

And on the new meanderings about Warren becoming Obama's new Reverend Wright controversy crap, I say shut it because it's just stupid. There's no reason for this comparison, and people need to stop getting butt-hurt about it. Not to be insensitive to the gay community, as I strongly feel Prop 8 is horrible, but there are other things to direct your energy, like overturning Prop 8, instead of vilifying Warren for 5 minutes in the spotlight. You get Obama for 4 years, possibly 8 years, and we can work toward a more perfect union, inclusive of homosexuals and other minorities alike.