1) Welcome to my new blog. I have not kept up a blog in about four years but hopefully I will stick with this one. Feel free to look around and disagree with my thoughts! This blog will probably be dominated by discussion of current events, especially the presidential campaign. I may talk about my personal life too...who knows!
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Okay, before I rant about how ridiculous this headline is let me establish that I consider myself an Independent.
However, when I hear people say that America is tired of republicans I believe they are flat out wrong. It is partisan politics that the American people are tired of, not republicans or democrats. We have a republican president and a democratic congress that are not particularly interested in working together and crossing party lines in order to see our foreign affairs taken care of properly, and our economy salvaged. The American people are facing hard times because of an influx of politicians rather than public servants. This is why we have a president with a 33% approval rate and a congress with an 18% approval rate (www.gallup.com). Americans need leaders that are willing to put the interest of the nation above party positions and personal preferences (oh, the alliteration). The truth is no party has it right in every way. So when people want to elect Barack Obama because he is the opposite of George W. Bush it is the wrong choice. It may seem like an exciting choice now, but when congress switches to a republican congress in a couple years, since thats the way it usually goes, we will be back in the same boat we are in now.
Americans need a moderate candidate willing to work with both parties to find the answers to the hard issues we are facing today. The truth of the matter is there are really no easy solutions so lets just come together. I know it seems like I am dreaming big and that I am too young to understand how things "really" work. But maybe its just that I have noticed that what we have going on right now isn't working out since we are facing unprecedented crises in our nation. So, in this election, the key is not to go as left as possible but to find the most moderate candidate. This will make way for successful long-term change in our nation.
Okay now that I got that out of the way, let me just talk about Hillary Clinton. I'm not a liberal basher and I happen to really admire Hillary, but her behavior today was pretty ridiculous. I am disgusted by the fact that she refused to attend an event simply because Sarah Palin was invited as well. This is a classic example of choosing to play the political game over fighting for a common cause. Sorry to break it to you Hillary, but the event is not about you in the first place and guess what, it will carry on just fine without you. I am in the middle of reading her autobiography and I was almost convinced that she really was looking out for the nation first and then she had to go and do something like this. I am disappointed that she could not move beyond the game of politics for a few hours. I am not sure if she remembers but she is not running for the presidency any longer. It turns out the SNL spoof this past weekend contained some truth about Clinton (aaannddd maybe Palin too). Not only did she put her personal issues above the cause of the event and fail as a public servant in this instance, but she also failed as a successful party representative for the democratic party. She has made Sarah Palin and the republican party look appealing while she makes the democratic party look unwilling to even be in the same building as the other side, much less willing to work with them. If this is the image democrats are going to put out there where will it push independent voters? Hmmm I wonder.
In the end, we need public servants that can be in the same building as their political counterparts. And I must say I lost a little respect for Clinton when I read about her behavior today. Perhaps, this will serve as a wake-up call to American voters and help them to notice that a moderate candidate who is willing to set aside party lines will serve our nation best in office.
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