article dump:
Been in my drafts folder for a while. for those on (and off) my FL that said mccain's tax idea was better... well, i certainly make under $100,000 and this was an independant study after all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31taxes.html?ref=usWhy yes, it seems that palin turned more ppl off than the handful that i personally know:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLmKbgJ9-ZUE7iK-CRfAzoJPbfjwD948L1NG1who's the electoral college anyway?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/11/04/mf.electoral.college/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110502053.html?hpid=topnews has some good things from leaders around the globe - even the unfriendlies. i'm seriously sensing what i'm calling the 'yuuri-effect' and in my naivite, i HOPE it works out ^_^
there's a good possibility i'll be throwing more links in through the day, but i SHOULD do some work around here LOL. I will end with this tho...
While i'd been supportive of obama since primaries, i was pretty indifferent towards the republicans. in 2000, i hoped that mccain would have been on the ticket cuz bush was just OH GOD NO. While i don't agree that his ideas for policies were in my best interest as a lower-middle-class person, i do think that the choices he and his campain made were quite damning. Palin was a huge mistake and turned off people very quickly after she began to speak. In 2000 he 'took the high road' and strove to run a clean campaign. people across the globe had been talking about how this campaign was anything BUT clean. (i read foreign newspapers - or have the spanish ones read to me by my lovely coworker who sits for citizenship in 2 weeks ^_^). There's no doubt both had the country's best interest in mind, but while hte president himself doesn't do all that much, what he DOES do leaves a profound impact. there's the possibility of having to appoint supreme court justicies... that's a lifetime appointment and as an american, balance is good there, but as a woman, a conservitve court shift really upsets me. while i don't think i'd be getting that abortion, i don't wnat it mandated that i CAN'T. something about america being a free country then having rights taken away is kinda annoying (like CA and what looks like the outcome of prop8). then there's the VETO. congress can make attempts and strides and stuff (some not great, clearly), but it's the president's right to VETO or sign the bill.
What excites me the most is the reaction from the 'unfriendly' countries. They wanna talk, they want DIPLOMACY. this is a sign of a good thing for the world, and hopefully we can be rid of this shoot first ask questions later mentality can go away. put the guns away, have a drink, have a chat, and go from there. America's been a global bully for way too long. it's time we get our "time out" and think about what we've done.
i now return you to your regularly scheduled workday.
EDIT: i'm so unproductive today... here's an excerpt from wiki about my favorite president. oh he was a republican, btw.
In many ways Coolidge's style of governance was a throwback to the passive presidency of the nineteenth century.[1] He restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity.[2] As his biographer later put it, "he embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength."[3]
EDIT2: more from world leaders, in a nutshell:
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