If your news source constantly refers to all other news sources as the "biased liberal media" then you do not have enough truth and honesty in your life. There used to be a game show called "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" in which adults consistently lost. Let's focus on that as a national problem that needs addressing.
Paul Ryan recently got into trouble for bullying his way into a closed soup kitchen by pushing around volunteer help so that he and his family could pretend to be helping those less fortunate. In response to that story, my uncle said "oh c'mon, they all do that!" Really? The only other politician I could think of that would do such a thing is this guy:
Why are we agreeing to go along with bullshit? As a Connecticut voter, registered independent, I'm denied the right to vote in primaries, which are often the biggest contests in my State. I traditionally support the Green party, and my candidates of choice are barred from the national media stage and blocked from entering Presidential debates. It's disappointing, but I'm not going to give up and stop voting, like more than half of you already have. You can be angry with the President for gas prices being so high, but is that really rational? You do know that half of the Middle East is in turmoil, right? You do know that American foreign policy is somewhat related to those disturbances, right? You don't want to get off gas and find something more sustainable and less damaging? Ok, we are drilling more at home, but guess what that does? Gives you and your kids cancer. Want to know what's really going on? Stop depending on other people to tell you the answer.
I was torn between voting for Obama or voting for Dr. Jill Stein, but I think I'm going to vote for Obama because I approve of many of the things he's done for us. We need our national leaders supporting gay marriage and equal rights. We need healthcare solutions that are going to help people gain access to healthcare and hopefully, eliminate the burdens on breadwinners to stay in jobs they hate or in which they are underpaid solely for insurance. I'm so thrilled we have 2 wars winding down as responsibly as possible and that we've pulled out troops from Iraq. I trust Obama not to take us to war in Iran because we can't afford it. Hopefully, we won't get dragged into Syria. I'm really disappointed with how the death of an ambassador was handled by the Oval Office and I wish assault weapons bans had been pursued, as promised. However, I'd like a President to treat immigrants like real people with genuine needs that should be met sensitively. I wish Guantanamo had actually closed, as promised. I wish we hadn't bailed out Wall Street, but I hope the Bush tax cuts expire and we pay down some debt. I want to spend more money on education and I wish Connecticut operated on a county system so that our wealth distribution as it applies to tax bases funding schools would be more equitable and all of the poor kids wouldn't always be sent to "failing" schools. I believe in investing in infrastructure and I'm willing to pay for it. I'm not going to get everything I want, nobody ever does, but I just agree more with Obama than with Romney. Also, I love Joe Biden and really appreciate that he was very open about being anti-abortion and a devout Catholic, but that he would never ever presume to force his values on anybody else. Thank you for that, dude.
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