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Why I'm Voting Republican

June 12, 2008 - - -

Ha! You thought I was serious? Come on. I've had an Obama sticker on my car for the past month.

What I'm referring to is a YouTube video that was just forwarded to me by a co-worker who's probably the only other person in this city not planning on voting Republican. Now that I've learned how to embed YouTube videos as valid XHTML, I can insert it right here.


Comments on Why I'm Voting Republican
 
Comment Thu, June 12 - 5:04 PM by Frank
Hey we're not voting Republican either! Krissy and I had a good laugh with this, I especially like the mother who wanted her kid to be challenged at school by fighting for attention. Classic.
 
Comment Thu, June 12 - 5:32 PM by Ed Gooberman
People talking in movie shows,
People smoking in bed,
People voting Republican,
Give them a boot to the head!

Boot to the head! Na na
Boot to the head! Na na
Boot to the head! Na na
Boot to the head! Na na...
 
Comment Fri, June 13 - 12:00 PM by tagger
As you probably heard from your mother or some other less reliable source, everybody in my house during the 1950s and 1960s was what I call an "Eisenhower Republican." This was no doubt courtesy of WW II.

Eisenhower Republicans had some truly bizarre beliefs. They called themselves "conservatives," and as such practiced (gasp) conservation. They also believed in fiscal responsibility and taking responsibility for ones own actions. Imagine that.

Eisenhower himself used to like going around saying stuff like, "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." and "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." One of my own favorites has always been, "Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

Needless to say, things have changed. I gave up on partisan politics during the Johnson years--probably had something to do with my all-expenses paid tour of Southeast Asia. IMO, Republicans and Democrats are two heads of the same snake. I will most likely vote for Obama, not so much because "I am a Democrat" (I'm not), but because as things stand today he angers and scares me the least.