Intermission - Drill Baby Drill
No. Not really.
Because the vote is a week away and because anyone who knows me, realizes that I rarely fail to form a political opinion about just about anything, I must make a claim about where my vote will go this year.
A couple of months ago Jason asked me what issues this year are the trump cards that could swing my vote one way or another. After a bit of thought and a realization that this election holds a whole new set of deal-breakers than the last election, much like the rest of America, I finally settled on a solid and logical plan for the reduction of American’s reliance on foreign oil being the issue that seems most comprehensive of all reasons I would prefer one candidate to another. Wait….that was important to me during the Bush-Gore elections too, but I digress.
Anyways, Obama’s got some good things to say about this. He wants to ensure a programmatic regulation of the financial system by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank. Through this bank he plans to create millions of jobs in support of building more solid and green mass transit-systems, and up-keeping the ones we have now. He also has planned some detailed goals about cap-and-trade programs to reduce our emissions and require that by 2012, ten percent of our electricity is generated from renewable sources. Meanwhile McCain chants “drill baby drill“. A long term move that the Department of Energy claims will be “insignificant” both in results and effect.
Since I would assume most of my reliable readers here have already decided who they will vote for on November 6th, I’m not writing this to sway anyone (aside from maybe encouraging any potential Brady bailers to stay firm when it comes to punching that little hole). I’m just saying that all of the issues that are most important to me (including positive diplomacy with middle-east regions and bringing our troops home, a suffering global economy, environmental concerns, etc.) seem to be very obviously intertwined and therefore my choice this week is an easy one.
I’m also very excited to finally vote in a swing state for once and I hope Colorado is the new Florida, leaving the whole world in balance while the absentee ballots pour in……
Because the vote is a week away and because anyone who knows me, realizes that I rarely fail to form a political opinion about just about anything, I must make a claim about where my vote will go this year.
A couple of months ago Jason asked me what issues this year are the trump cards that could swing my vote one way or another. After a bit of thought and a realization that this election holds a whole new set of deal-breakers than the last election, much like the rest of America, I finally settled on a solid and logical plan for the reduction of American’s reliance on foreign oil being the issue that seems most comprehensive of all reasons I would prefer one candidate to another. Wait….that was important to me during the Bush-Gore elections too, but I digress.
Anyways, Obama’s got some good things to say about this. He wants to ensure a programmatic regulation of the financial system by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank. Through this bank he plans to create millions of jobs in support of building more solid and green mass transit-systems, and up-keeping the ones we have now. He also has planned some detailed goals about cap-and-trade programs to reduce our emissions and require that by 2012, ten percent of our electricity is generated from renewable sources. Meanwhile McCain chants “drill baby drill“. A long term move that the Department of Energy claims will be “insignificant” both in results and effect.
Since I would assume most of my reliable readers here have already decided who they will vote for on November 6th, I’m not writing this to sway anyone (aside from maybe encouraging any potential Brady bailers to stay firm when it comes to punching that little hole). I’m just saying that all of the issues that are most important to me (including positive diplomacy with middle-east regions and bringing our troops home, a suffering global economy, environmental concerns, etc.) seem to be very obviously intertwined and therefore my choice this week is an easy one.
I’m also very excited to finally vote in a swing state for once and I hope Colorado is the new Florida, leaving the whole world in balance while the absentee ballots pour in……
posted by carlymarie | 7:31 AM
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So much for trying to sway opinion. For anyone concerned about a youngster earning the office, while one of McCain’s recent votes was to deny hibeaus corpus rights from detainees, Obama was teaching constitutional law at a major university.
And yes I got most of the information in this post from a trustworthy magazine source, but of course I cross-referenced. The magazine also asks the following true/false question:
On the same day that Obama was seen on TV flying over Iraq in a helicopter with Gen. David Petraeus, John McCain was seen on TV in the cheese aisle of a supermarket explaining his confusion about the Iraq war.
Answer from above:
False. That day McCain was seen riding around in a golf-cart with former President H.W. Bush. The cheese aisle incident took place two days later.
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It's a pity you aren't in America to vote on November 6th... then you would be two days late to cast your vote for the Chosen One. :) But, I must say that two years after debating with you, it looks like you are going to win. I just may have to move back to Ukraine...
I cant believe we've been debating this for 2 FULL YEARS! I guess it all has paid off!
Colorado's a BLUE STATE!!!! :)
YAY!
--Joslyn
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