"There is a President Obama that only republicans can see" was a line from John Stewart's "The Daily Show" last night. Very funny based on the context from his show, but as I thought about it more and more, I'm starting to think it might actually be true.
Clint Eastwood made the point for me when he spoke off the cuff for 12 minutes on the closing night of the convention by saying "I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years." There is one problem with this statement - Barack Obama was not responsible for getting us into Afghanistan. Whoops, fact check fail!
Paul Ryan made my point for me when he said "You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn't have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it." You ask me what the issue is with this? Hmmm, I'm sort of stumped you see, because repubs are supposed to be against waste in government, but when our standing president takes steps to reduce waste in Medicare spending, but they must have decided that it is better to turn their backs on their past than to admit that a reduction in waste might be a good thing. And I'm sure you all know that Paul Ryan carries the same cuts over into his budget. Ohhhhh, but that would sort of be like calling the kettle black, right? Is that counted as a party platform fail?
Governor Romney made my point by saying (and yes, Mr. Eastwood, I did call him governor, even though I may not like the repub nominee, I still give him the respect in title he deserves) the following in his speech, "In America, we celebrate success, we don't apologize for it. We weren't always successful at Bain. But no one ever is in the real world of business. That's what this President doesn't seem to understand. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving." Here is what I don't get out of his statement - that they weren't always successful.....but they got their consultant fees before they declared bankruptcy on behalf of the companies that became failures, and handed the leftovers to the country and the government, and to us, the taxpayers to cover, like a bad Las Vegas poker hand. I guess that failure is really only failure when you are the one that loses your business, your job, your healthcare, and your self respect. But if you can walk away from a deeply leveraged company with more money than you put in, then you must be "WINNING!"
So, as John Stewart so rightly commented on his show, it really does appear that the republican party sees a President Obama that doesn't really exist, and a delusional picture of what America was 4 years ago after the failed policies of 8 years of republican control brought to this nation - as compared to the socialist nation they believe us to be. So the election really does come down to a choice - do you believe the picture that the republican party is holding up, or do you not? I don't, and that is why I will not be voting for a fantasy.
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