Obama, Huckabee and other news

I have only liked three candidates in this Presidential campaign: Joe Biden, Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama. The last two have shown in the past two days that they (along with Biden) are the only candidates who had core convictions. Mike Huckabee did so here: (Go about 3:15 in)

I am so proud of Huck.

Obama, on the other hand, gave one of the most sweeping, substantive speeches of the last 50 years in American politics. It was an honest speech that showed why he is the man to lead this country. He could have pandered to whites who wanted him to disown his pastor and leave his church, but he didn’t. He could have called white suspicion naive and ludicrous, but he didn’t. It was a remarkable speech.

I am currently planning for the big April 9 event and doing some schoolwork, so I have not been able to blog as much as I would have liked. I can tell you what, if I had time, I would be blogging on:

1. If Hillary can donate 5 million dollars to her campaign, could she donate some money to her wardrobe!? If I have to see that bee looking pantsuit one more time, I swear…!

2. By the way, about Hillary, the only campaign she still has a chance of winning is the campaign to destroy the Democratic Party.
I don’t know how many Democrats think a continuation of the failed policy in Iraq, or a third-term for Bush, is better than Senator Barack Obama in the White House.

3. I love the black church. I think it is one of the best parts of our country. However, conspiracy theories aren’t helping no one.

4. Tony Perkins and the FRC should pay more attention to the Bible and less attention to the political fortunes of the Republicans in Congress. In my latest FRC Action Alert E-mail…I was sent a paragraph of Ken Blackwell criticizing Obama’s Pastor and Obama for being in favor of a liberation philosophy and socialism. None of which, to my knowledge, were discussed in his speech. This paragraph by Ken was FRC’s response to Obama’s speech. One would think that FRC Action would rather protect the black church, which is with them on the social issues, then castigate the church because it doesn’t vote Republican. In the lead-up to April 9, I will be blogging a bit more about why the Religious Right has been led astray and if they can ever get back on a path when their eyes are on the Lord, instead of power in D.C.

5. Buffalo Sabres are going to the playoffs baby! (knock on wood)

 

Let’s Talk Politics: Spitzer, Clinton and various other topics

Spitzer:

I think it is an awful thing to consider that Spitzer was weighing his options, considering if he would be able to survive. The man should have dropped out right away. He should be ashamed of himself. He is a disgrace to the office and he is a despicable man for dragging his wife out for a press conference.

What I find equally distressing is that we have heard, watched and read things that are questioning whether prostitution is bad or not. For the man or the woman. The man had a wife and three children. It was wrong. For some people, Spitzer pushing for a gay marriage bill would be more legitimate if he wasn’t simultaneously dishonoring his own.

It is a sad statement if the feminist movement has transformed into a movement which defends prostitution. I love the men who frame their support for prostitution or abortion as “a woman has a right to do whatever she wants with a woman.” And women embrace that as part of being a woman, expressing their femininity. When in actuality, it’s at least partially men who want to be able to have sex with anyone and without any consequences.

But I digress…

There is no such thing as privacy for a public official. I believe that the public and the press should stay out of some things, but for Spitzer to call his using a prostitute and breaking the law a private manner is pure folly. Public officials should be held to a higher standard.

Between this and Clinton, I have never been so consumed with disgust at political officials in my party.

Which brings us to…Clinton.

I have a lot to say on her.

1) Electability

Hillary Clinton’s argument is that she wins democratic voters, which are the voters we’ll need in November. And that Obama wins big cities, which Democrats will win anyways.

She also selectively picks out states, and makes the ludicrous claim that a primary victory correlates with general election performance. As I remember, Obama won Maryland, Wisconsin, Virginia, Louisiana, Missouri. All states with primaries, all swing states. See the Clinton’s have done with electability what they have with everything else since February 5. They have thrown the kitchen sink at Obama and at the voters. Throwing whatever crap they could against the wall and seeing if anything will stick.

But you see…here’s the problem…None of her arguments make sense. In the general, Democrats will back Obama. What is not certain is that the independents and Republicans that will back Obama will support Hillary. Actually, it is pretty certain…they won’t. In a Zogby poll, Clinton starts off the general with 47% of the country saying they would NEVER vote for her. That’s a ceiling of 53%.

Clinton supporters can be as delusional as they want about her general election prospects. They could pretend that she is as gifted of a politician as Bill. They could pretend that she will win the commander-in-chief argument against McCain. They could pretend that people won’t be affected by the possibility of both Clinton’s back in the White House. They could pretend that the Republicans won’t play as dirty with her as she has with Obama. However, none of these things will happen.

2) Florida and Michigan

First of all, let’s take Michigan off the table. Obama wasn’t on the ballot. When he signs a pledge, he means it.

With Florida, yes, Clinton has an advantage in the state. However, let’s not forget that she held fundraisers in the state, and that even before South Carolina she began to pander to Florida and Michigan. So her advantages in the states are partially due to her breaking the spirit of the pledge she signed, as well as her stabbing NH and Iowa in the back as soon as the cast their votes for her. The NH Union Leader told NH voters they had been duped.

I believe that there should be a revote. Clinton is going to lose. The writing is on the wall. Obama is and should support a revote, beat her in Michigan, and maybe that will shut her up.

3) Ferraro

The Clinton’s have repeatedly used surrogates to run a smear campaign. Ferraro’s comments are another step in that direction. They use surrogates to state explicitly what Hillary only says implicitly. Hillary talks about how Obama won Louisiana because of the pride of African-Americans, Ferraro goes on Fox News and says that he is in his position because he is black. That will get that blue-collar vote!

I am done with the Clinton’s. I am through.

I guess the one good thing about that is that the Democratic Primary Voters have spoken: And they are done with her too.

 

The Daily Colonial: Sexpert, Waiting Until Marriage. My Generation and Sex.

I want to preface this post by noting that, despite the title of the post, my generation is not defined by what the media presents, or by the student population at the George Washington University. However, it is undeniable that our generation has moved a certain way on many issues. The issue of sex is the topic of this post. 

One of the school newspapers, The Daily Colonial, has a column called “Sexpert.” The columnist takes a question from an anonymous student and answers it. The questions are usually, and while I am probably exaggerating, the basic gist of the questions is along the lines of these: “My boyfriend says I don’t make him happy anymore, how can I reignite or relationship?” or “I haven’t had sex in a week, and I’m really hurting, how can I get a quick fix with no annoying calls the day after?” I wish these were REALLY exaggerating, but they aren’t too far off the mark. One column focuses on the best places in our library to have sex. Another column “tackles” orgasms. Yet another tackles a heterosexual who is “bi-curious.”

However, a column that really represents the type of “anti-female,” “anti-respect,” and “anti-morality” of this columnist’s work is this article.  

The part that is despicable and striking to me is when she suggests to the student the script he should follow in order to non-chalantly and casually get the girl to have sex with him. The columnist nowhere mentions that he should only have sex with the girl if he is in love with her, or wants a long-term relationship with her, which, believe it or not (and I know it’s silly) some people still expect a commitment when sex is involved. 

Not to mention even suggesting that perhaps the young man can wait to have sex. No. Apparently waiting isn’t even an option. Men are slaves to their penises and women are only women if they cater to that brainless toad in the name of sexual freedom.

It’s funny how all of these pro-choice and “girls should do whatever they want with their body” men are sometimes treated as though they are fearless and courageous leaders fighting an epic battle on par with the Civil Rights Movement.

Yes.

I wonder why college men would approve of abortion and free sex…Our women have had abortion masqueraded as an issue of privacy and equal rights and they are kept in bondage because of it. Men and women are now abdicated of responsibility and consequences when it comes to pregnancy. I mean, why not, just go to the nearest tax-payer funded doctor’s office and get that child taken care of. Oh and don’t worry if the abortion fails the first time around, because if it comes out alive, your privacy rights demand that child is killed on the table.

See it works out: Now the man can go sleep with a different girl the next day, not causing any real break in his sexual pattern, which would be a shame, and the woman won’t have her life inconvenienced by a child that was the result (in 97% of abortions) of her consenting to have sex. Note that I did not say “willfully” because Lord knows how many girls are having sex because their boyfriends pressure them into it. YAYYYY FEMALE RIGHTS!!!!! YAYYYYY FEMINISM!!!!!!!!  

That said, I am writing this post because of the last column by the “sexpert.” This column was the most despicable I have read so far. I say this because the student who wrote in, unlike others, did not get the answer their question deserved. The student wrote in asking how to tell their significant other they were waiting until marriage to have sex. This so-called “sexpert” proceeded to tell the student that their desire to have sex for the first time with the person they want to spend the rest of their life with was “unusual” and that in relationships, no matter what the terms or length, there is an “expectation” of sexual intercourse. At the end of the article the columnist tells the student that if they stand up for themselves and their bodies and actually assert real independence that they will probably be dumped and lose their significant other.

This is how new standards are formed and new morality created, people are told the old ways don’t matter and therefore, those restrictions need not apply. Creating a new standard of relationship=sex. That it is your problem if you don’t want to have sex because you did not do everything necessary to please your partner.

Again, with this culture, it is easy to see why so many women need abortions and why so many of my generation are like zombies, with no purpose and left empty by the bankrupt ideals that society insists are about lofty notions engrained in us since public school like “equality,” and “free choice.”

There is no freedom in this contorted view of life. There is only bondage. There is no equality. There is only submission.

I would have told this student that I was proud of their decision to do what they wanted with their bodies, to live a lifestyle that will protect them from STD’s, and will ensure that their “first time” will be on their terms, with a person they want to share the rest of their life, and the numerous other “times” with.

While males have been duped into believing they have no choice but to follow the whim of their hormones rather than their better judgment; While women have been fooled by men, women who have lost their virginity and are comforted by the idea that “everyone” else has, and themselves into thinking that sexual intercourse is the only pathway, rather than a 100% foolproof barrier to connection and the validation of a relationship: I think those who have chosen to wait should not be mocked and condemned, but applauded.

However, something tells me the applause won’t be coming from all of the “sexperts.”