Politics And Money

Posted on October 19, 2008

Are You Fucking Kidding Me?

I'm usually not into politics, actually almost never. Sadly, this is the first year I am voting. I do not support Obama. I just don't want the old white guy to make it(gee, guess who I'm voting for). However, today I realized why I don't like either candidate. Apparently Mr. Obama raised 150 million in September. According to the article, it puts Obama at 605 million bucks raised for his campaign so far. Let me repeat...605 MILLION DOLLARS.

Wouldn't The Best Candidate Be The One...

... who could do the most with the least? I'll prolly never go to a democratic or republican convention. Why not? Better question: why? There's absolutely nothing one of those conventions can provide me or anyone else that will affect the way I feel about either candidate or party. Nada. Zip. They do one thing, waste money. Sure, they "create jobs"...for a week, but how bout taking that money and pouring it into something like schools or hospitals or something useful?

I'll prolly never go to a political fund raising dinner either, because I don't have any money I feel like lighting on fire and wasting.

Candidates, don't tell me how you're gonna fix the economy, show me by running the slimmest campaign, not the fattest.

Don't Mess With My TV Schedule

This one pisses me off the most. Stop putting those debates on TV. At least not on the weekends, or Monday through Friday, between the hours of 5am and midnight. Seriously, put that shit on YouTube, NBC, or somewhere online, and only the highlights please.

Internet Debate

What would that take? An internet debate, online, realtime, open to anyone and everyone on earth to ask questions. Put one candidate in one booth, the other in his booth, they don't need to see each other, and a host who can see both. You'll need bandwidth(nbc could donate that), the host to ask the questions, and one of us geeks to run the internet show, and a small handful of people to screen questions. Done.

How much would that cost? 605 million? Nope, not even close. The candidates are free, right? they sure as hell don't(shouldn't) get paid for this shit. The host(I vote for John Stewart) would do it for free as well, it's an honor and a service for the country right? Bandwidth isn't free, but that's where well placed commercials come in, kinda like how NBC does it now.

OK. I'm done.

Comments

Pete	Vote libertarian, where candidates actually follow the constitution and practice smaller gov't. You just have to accept beind shunned by people in both parties for "wasting your vote".

Brock

@Pete - Please Please Please tell me how you could possibly think that a libertarian would practice smaller government?? Uhh.. have you seen Obama's plan?? Obviously not. You would be the guy in both parties that spouts uneducated rants and bases their vote on friends or how you feel.

Good post Chis.

Pete

Brock, you're quite mistaken on what the priciples held by libertarians are... smaller gov't, lower taxes and greater personal liberty. These are not the priciples of the Democrat party, and while the Republican party supposedly wants smaller gov't, they don't practice what they preach.

Yes, I've read Obama's plan and disagree with most of it based on the huge increases in the size of gov't and spending needed to implement it.