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Day: July 30, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-30

Published by NiteMayr on July 30, 2008
  • UUUUrrrrhhhhhhh Morning Zombieeee #
  • Internet engines, Amuse and annoy me! #
  • Didn’t notice this before: http://tinyurl.com/5l22k8 #
  • “ALT+ENTER” the best shortcut (for firefox) I have learned since “CTRL+T” and “Win+L” on windows #
  • When am I going to see my paycheque!?!?!? LoL #
  • Link to the Canadian Do Not Call List: http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ #
  • Finally! Now to pay some bills… #
  • @stephthegeek “Alt+D” Nice, I didn;t know that one… Maybe I can abandon the Mouse altogether… #
  • @cheyennejack It’s the price of being a vanguard; history teaches us that the humble avoid webs in the face (pies too) #
  • It’s getting late Shack. See you in the morning. #
  • If being a POW gives you superior knowledge of War then Lifers are superior lawyers, right? #

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US Politics are Sexy: Obama is unprepared for Office

Published by NiteMayr on July 30, 2008
I’ve been shy to post very much about the coming US election, mostly because I no longer have a dog in that fight.  I’m not really in the Tank for Obama; I think he’s a good guy but still really a “Politician” Politician, who would sell out his own morals for votes.  I’m not really saying that as a negative; it’s probably a virtue in a politician.   However, I’m infinitley more interested in Obama than I was in Hillary or McCain.  Both of the latter candidates strike me as people who could be trusted to simply enact their own personal policies, whereas Obama appears to blow with the wind, which (as Bill Clinton showed) can make for a memorable and light presidency.
All that said; I don’t dig on the “Obama is too new to be President” arguments; thus I present this compelling argument from a Digg comment I read today.
Wartyboskfapped
2 hr 44 min ago
Obama is definitely more qualified to be President than George W. Bush was, and is definitely more qualified to be President than McCain. How so? Well, on the former point, one only has to look at Bush’s history to have that question answered. If Bush was qualified for the job, then Obama certainly is. On the latter, one only has to look at McCain’s lack of grasp of economics & foreign policy, & his continued blunders, plus his rather shady history in the Keating 5.

Obama has served 11 years in elected office, including 8 years in the Illinois Senate and 3 years in the U.S. Senate. He is the only candidate to begin a presidential bid with experience at both the state and federal levels. He brings more elected experience to his presidential campaign than Ronald Reagan (8 years as California governor), Perot (zilch), George W. Bush (6 years Texas governor), Hillary Clinton (7 years as senator), John Edwards (6 years as U.S. senator), Giuliani (8 years as NYC mayor), Mitt Romney (4 years governor). Obama has much more foreign policy experience than either Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan had when they were elected.

But if the best candidates are those with the most experience, then you surely believe that Strom Thurmond should have become president.

Remember: The three presidents who historians consider the greatest of all time (Lincoln, Washington, and FD Roosevelt) all had much less legislative experience Obama. Abraham Lincoln served but a single term in the United States House of Representatives and less time in the Illinois Senate. Even Eisenhower had virtually no political experience.

Experience? 30 years in the senate will not necessarily mean you will make good decisions on foreign policy, or will choose smart, pragmatic advisors/cabinet members. There are few people with more experience in public life over the past 40 years than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld – and George W. Bush was around politics his entire life. Have they done a decent job? Do you trust ’em? If so, you’re a chump.