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[luciazephyr]

So, I've fucking had it.

I'm gonna go buy a bunch of those cheap neon-color posterboard things. I'm gonna make signs about who McCain really is and put them up around town.

Anyone want to help me come up with short, pithy statements? This is what I've got so far:

McCain's first executive decision? Choosing an inexperienced VP with no foreign policy experience.

McCain fought against renewing the same GI Bill that put him through college. Is that supporting the troops?

The Iraq economy is now better than ours. Maybe we can leave now?

Palin opposes sex education. How'd that work out for her? (that may be too harsh, I think)

Palin's cedentials: governor for 18 months, mayor of 5K people, PTA member.

Under Palin, Wasilla, Alaska ended up $20 million in debt. $3K per person. Some reform.

Knowing how many houses you own matters when most of America can hardly afford one.

Anything else?

-Luce

Comments

[aelora.livejournal.com]

The only good thing to come out of last night?? How fired up the Democrats are today. I've seen so many people say they donated money to Obama last night (wish I could, but I have $4 to my name atm...) I did volunteer to use my place to host parties for Women for Obama, though.

I've spent so much time doing more research today, and trying to keep my temper in check that I haven't even been able to concentrate on a Dan/Anderson sex scene. How sad is that????

[aelora.livejournal.com]

PS - A statement:

Susan B Anthony, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Jesus Christ - Community Organizers.

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

Word.

[lizzy-someone.livejournal.com]

FUCK YES.

(Sorry if that was a bit of a strong response from a stranger, but just, THANK YOU. I swear her speech drove up my blood pressure, and it is wonderful to hear good rebuttals.)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Paying the government $19 less is not a tax cut.

In John McCain's World, if you make $4 Million dollars a year, you're rich. In the real world, people who make half that much are still in the .01 of the tax bracket.

Oil pumped out of the US is sold on the international market: more US oil does not make cheaper US gasoline.

Palin: Lobbied congress for earmarks before she was against it.

A better economy at home provides better security abroad, not the other way around.

The Vietnam War has been over for forty years - maybe we can concentrate on the wars we're fighting now?

Social Conservatives: has the Republican party actually fulfilled any of their promises? Your only victory in the culture wars was from judges legislating from the benches. - somewhat ick, but the more Republicans that don't vote for McCain, the better.

McCain/Palin: Exploiting the citizens today to the detriment of tomorrow.

McCain loosens banking regulation -> Banking industry fails.

The McCain of 2005 would not vote for the McCain of 2008.

God's command was to gain dominion over the Earth, not destroy it.

Adam named all the creatures of the Earth. Today the process would be significantly shorter.

Letting all the apples grow on a tree become apple trees doesn't lead to healthy orchards: Not having birth control doesn't lead to healthy societies.

It's against the law for stores price-gouge consumers after a natural disaster: it's not against the law for insurance companies to price-gouge the ill. Regulate the Insurance Companies Now!

McCain says "I don't know much about economics."

If Palin couldn't balence the budget in Wasilla, Alaska, how can she balance the budget of the United States?

Just because you were in the Navy, doesn't mean you should be in charge of the Navy.

Being Governor of the state next to Russia does not make you an expert in American-Russian affairs.

How exactly is being a PTA member a better start in politics than a community organizer?

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, you have some real zingers there. Thank you!

[snoopypez.livejournal.com]

Adam named all the creatures of the Earth. Today the process would be significantly shorter.

I LOVE this one. A lot.

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

I am unable to come up with a pithy statement, but one might want to mention something about banning books.

Some West Wing quotes to inspire you(one of them is going on my brand spanking new Obama icon that I haven't decided yet):

"We do not appeal to the lowest common denominator; we try to raise it"

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."-that was acutally Ben Franklin, but surprisingly apt for the Patriot Act yes? Which I believe McCain voted for.

"Because I am tired of working for candidates who make me think I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe, Sam. I'm tired of getting them elected. You all need some therapy, because somebody came along and said liberal means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on communism, soft on defense, and we're going to tax ya back to the stone age, because people shouldn't have to go to work, if they don't want to. And instead of saying 'Well, excuse me, you right-wing reactionary xenophobic homophobic anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, leave it to beaver trip back to the fifties,' we cowered in the corner. And said 'Please Don't Hurt Me'. No more. I really don't care who's right, who's wrong. We're both right. We're both wrong. Let's have two parties, huh, what do you say?"

"I think ambition is good. I think overreaching is good. I think giving people a vision of government that's more than Social Security checks and debt reduction is good. I think government should be optimistic."

"They say a good man can't be elected president. I don't believe that."

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I just said that long quote out loud to myself. And started crying.

Why can't government really be a big community of people? I think that idea was introduced to me by Sorkin as well. I think Toby said it? :sighs:

Can I just call myself a Bartlett Democrat and be done with it?

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

Man, if Obama/Bartlet was a ticket people would just die. From the awesomeness.

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

"I'm the president of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me, and by the way if the left has a problem with that they should vote for someone else"
is I believe, a quote you might be looking for.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

No, but that's a good one. God, Josiah, I miss you so damn much it hurts.

the quote was like... oh, maybe it was Sam or Josh, in their "how I wish it was" tone, talking about how government should not be a place for the elite and the wealthy, it should be for everyone.

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

"We have to say what we feel, that government, no matter what it's failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind. No one... gets left behind. An instrument of good."
-toby

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

YES. THANK YOU, THAT'S IT.

I'm going to take some of my posterboard, write that on it, mount it on my wall, and live by it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm tempted to join you. Okay so now I have a favor to ask! :D! I have a pic of Obama looking all serious and presidential which of these quotes do you like:

"We do no appealto the lowest common denominator, we try to raise it."

"I want to speak now."

"Decisions are made by those who show up."

"They say a good man can't be elected president. I don't believe that."

'The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen"

"There is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope."

or

"Tomorrow."

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

"We do no appeal to the lowest common denominator, we try to raise it."

:D

[peapods42.livejournal.com]

For some reason that went anonymous, weird. But awesome. I'm gonna try that one and a couple others out on it.