A Whole Lot Of Hypocrisy Going On

*** First, a disclaimer. I’m voting for Bob Barr this November. I just cannot support John McCain because of his idiotic stance on immigration among other things. I like Barack Obama, I would vote for him if his ideas (the very few he specifies) weren’t garbage. ***

I don’t even know where to start with this really. Just a lot of stuff floating around in my head the last few days that I feel like I have to get out of my system. The current Republican party sucks. Most of them need to go home. This does not change the fact that they are held to an infuriating double standard on a million different issues. I’m going to try and point out just a couple that have come up the last week or two.

• When Democrats nominate Barack Obama for President, it is because of his ideas. When someone who votes for Hillary Clinton, it is to advance a great cause.

Michael Steele is an “Oreo” and an Uncle Tom. Condoleezza Rice is Aunt Jemima. Colin Powell is a house slave. Sarah Palin is “an affirmative action pick.” This coming from the party that champions affirmative action by the way.

• I noticed plenty of people watching the hurricane coverage this week that were borderline giddy. After all, it is proof that God really exists. They wanted President Bush and his cronies to be embarrassed. If that means a few hundred thousand black people lose their homes or die…so be it.

So what is worse? Failing to help folks in Louisiana because you are an inept administration? Or cheering for it to happen again because it will make people look bad with its ironic timing?

• I don’t give a rat’s ass about Sarah Palin’s daughter being pregnant. What does that have to do with anything? People say this undermines her “family values” appeal. Is she supposed to control every action of her kid? Parents teach their children the best they can, and then eventually the kids make their own choices. This happens in every family. Are we now going to start disqualifying Presidential candidates based on the choices of their teenage children? The pickings are already slim as it is!

Of course, were Al Gore to run, I have a feeling his son would not be an issue. He is addicted to every drug known to man, and has been known to drive at high speeds while on said drugs. This puts people’s lives in danger - but it is nothing nearly as bad as being pregnant. Gore’s kid got a half day in the news cycle - if that. Throw Howard Dean’s son in there too.

I have to wonder. What if it came out that Palin’s son does coke? Do you think it would get more play in the media than the fact that Obama did coke and wrote about it in his own book? If you don’t, you are a moron.

Not to mention Joe Biden’s daughter has been arrested. His son was being paid as a lobbyist for a credit card company while Biden pushed for legislation that would make it harder for people to get relief from credit card debt. Biden himself has received over $200,000 in campaign donations from employees of said credit card company.

As for undermining her family values - how? She has supported her daughter and encouraged her to not abort the child. You may disagree with her views, but under pressure she has walked the walk. She has been consistent with her platform. She is a true believer in what she says. I don’t see the problem here.

• Speaking of coke, apparently nobody cares. Wasn’t this the same group of Democrats/media that was killing themselves (unsuccessfully) to find some evidence that George W. Bush used coke? Now they have it right in front of them with another candidate and they don’t even blink. Not shocking though, you had a draft dodger in Bill Clinton, and one in Howard Dean who got just about no scrutiny at all when they ran, yet the media again KILLS itself to find (or make up) some evidence to show that George W. Bush didn’t give it his all.
• Back to Sarah Palin. Last night, after her speech, I must have heard ten media commentators and Democratic strategists (including the Obama campaign’s press release) point out the fact that she didn’t write her own speech. Yeah? Neither does Barack Obama. Neither does any politician. Why would they feel the need to point this out? Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

They also keep saying, “shouldn’t she be home with the kids?” Really? What if it were Todd Palin that was running? Would it be okay then? What if Hillary had younger children when she was running? What would the reaction have been if Republicans had mentioned that her family might be better off if she stayed home with the kiddies like a good woman should? Do we even have to wonder?

CNN’s Campbell Brown made an interesting point about Harry Reid’s rebuttal to Palin’s speech last night.

• Where the hell does Barack Obama get off making fun of her experience by the way? The guy is a glorified State Senator. He has never authored any important legislation, and according to professors who worked with him, he never penned any law papers either. Then, in his criticism, he brags about how small her Mayoral budget was, and that he dwarfs that number monthly in his campaign. Leave it to a Democrat to brag about how much money he is blowing through. A great sign of things to come.

You have to love Anderson Cooper last night defending Obama’s lack of executive experience by pointing out that he has some - he has run this campaign, hasn’t he? As my good friend The Red Lion pointed out:

I’m running for President. I guess all the experience you need is the experience you gain running your own campaign, so count me in!

• Are people really getting bent out of shape about Palin wanting to fire a cop who tased a ten year old boy and threatened to kill her father? Wow, we are reaching, aren’t we?
• CNN’s John King made an excellent point as well. One of the clowns on their broadcast kept pointing out that the religious right was “running this campaign.” King thoughtfully mentioned how the Democratic campaign hall was filled with members of the AFL-CIO and the Teachers Union, yet nobody said they were “running the Obama campaign.” If it goes down anything like how they do things in California, then they most certainly are running the campaign.
• A lot of talk about Republicans and fear. They want to scare you. They want to vote for them because you are afraid. Hmmmm, Democrats are only using the biggest scare campaign in the history of the country. The world is going to end! Al Gore told us global warming ™ was going to melt the polar ice caps during the next administration. And hey - if that doesn’t kill us, the Republicans will kill us all by starting a nuclear war!
• A couple final smaller points.

The New York Times prints a speculative story about John McCain “spending too much time with a lobbyist,” yet they take 9 months to acknowledge an affair with proof (John Edwards.)

The media refuses to touch Edwards, freezing out the story for nearly a year, yet they are already starting to report on a Palin affair story that is based on one unnamed source. Wow.

As for the lobbyist and McCain, nothing has been proven. Meanwhile, Barack Obama makes shady land deals with a guy who is now in prison. Yawn. No biggie.

This year we are seeing the media’s true colors like we have never seen before. They are going all out. If Bill Maher can see this stuff, it is pretty obvious.

I’m just glad I’m not a McCain supporter. If this is how worked up I get when I don’t care - Imagine what I’d do if I did!