Damn straight, brother. You tell it!
Okay, so I've forgiven CNN for it's grave offense to me earlier. Well, I guess I haven't really forgiven them, but I'm like that girlfriend who keeps going back to the guy who mistreats her. CNN and I just have a bond other people don't understand. CNN'll change. I know it. It loves me.
I was reading a fun news story on the online equivalent of the old TV program "Hard Copy" (only without the hard-hitting journalism), and found a politician I could grow to like if he had any hope of having a career after this.
I've always been a fan of politicians who can do gutsy things. I'll admire the openly bigoted mayor of an Alabama town who makes racist comments because he's willing to be honest about what he believes. I would even applaud G.W. Bush if he had the temerity to actually say, "I'm going to war because the big defense contractors wanted it and because it deflects attention from the fact that I don't know what the hell to do about our own country's problems." What I'm getting at is that, while I may not like the content of most politician's brains, I do like it when they are willing to actually say what they mean without hemming and hawing, pulling toward the center, and fancy turns of phrase to hide their true opinions.
Nothing bugged me more than when the Republican candidate for governor of Kansas this last time (I've forgotten his name; somebody help me out with it) was in a debate and responded to a question about rising child care costs with his solution. "I think," he said, "that we should have a tax credit so that one parent can just stay home with the kids, instead of having to work a job just to pay for them to be in childcare." With that, he gave an evil grin to the camera.
Seriously, dude. We all know what you meant. Women should stay at home in the kitchen and keep pumping out little brats while Daddy goes out to work and bangs his secretary while 'staying late' at the office (and all of the other happy little accoutrements of the 1950's). We get you. But if you feel that way, why can't you openly admit that? Why do you have to hide it behind some ambiguous rhetoric? If you'd simply be honest about your douchebaggery, I wouldn't hate you so much. But you had to lie, and now I think you're scum for what you believe and you gained additional scum points for lying about it.
Well, a Maryland politician has just earned huge bonus points with me for speaking his mind and doing what he wanted to do. He's still a pile of steaming whatsit, but kudos, man. You've earned a high-five for later.
I was reading a fun news story on the online equivalent of the old TV program "Hard Copy" (only without the hard-hitting journalism), and found a politician I could grow to like if he had any hope of having a career after this.
I've always been a fan of politicians who can do gutsy things. I'll admire the openly bigoted mayor of an Alabama town who makes racist comments because he's willing to be honest about what he believes. I would even applaud G.W. Bush if he had the temerity to actually say, "I'm going to war because the big defense contractors wanted it and because it deflects attention from the fact that I don't know what the hell to do about our own country's problems." What I'm getting at is that, while I may not like the content of most politician's brains, I do like it when they are willing to actually say what they mean without hemming and hawing, pulling toward the center, and fancy turns of phrase to hide their true opinions.
Nothing bugged me more than when the Republican candidate for governor of Kansas this last time (I've forgotten his name; somebody help me out with it) was in a debate and responded to a question about rising child care costs with his solution. "I think," he said, "that we should have a tax credit so that one parent can just stay home with the kids, instead of having to work a job just to pay for them to be in childcare." With that, he gave an evil grin to the camera.
Seriously, dude. We all know what you meant. Women should stay at home in the kitchen and keep pumping out little brats while Daddy goes out to work and bangs his secretary while 'staying late' at the office (and all of the other happy little accoutrements of the 1950's). We get you. But if you feel that way, why can't you openly admit that? Why do you have to hide it behind some ambiguous rhetoric? If you'd simply be honest about your douchebaggery, I wouldn't hate you so much. But you had to lie, and now I think you're scum for what you believe and you gained additional scum points for lying about it.
Well, a Maryland politician has just earned huge bonus points with me for speaking his mind and doing what he wanted to do. He's still a pile of steaming whatsit, but kudos, man. You've earned a high-five for later.
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