Hollywood Gossip and Political Hoopla

I’m not quite sure how Barack Obama telling kids not to do what he did and experiment with drugs is supposed to discourage them from doing so. I mean, dude’s a candidate for President of the United States now. Maybe he should’ve just told them not to overdo it too much.

Course, Hillary Clinton’s camp supposedly had some kind of scandalous information about Barack Obama that they may or may not have wanted to release a couple days ago, so maybe this was it and Obama simply wanted to beat them to it. Considering this information was already documented however, I’m sure what they would’ve actually accomplished. Besides, is that kind of information even going to hurt him at this point? Is there anyone out there that’s had their vote swayed after hearing that Barack Obama drank and messed around with various drugs when he was younger?

Hell, who didn’t?

I’ve managed to drag my happy ass out of bed at six in the morning two days in a row. I’m proud of myself.

I was going to wait on making a post about the democratic debate because I don’t like getting into that bullshit early in the morning but I’m in the kind of mood where I’d rather get it out of the way first. Survivor was on last night so I missed the first hour and frankly Survivor is much more important to me right now than which one of these bozos manage to win the mantle of presidency. James would make a perfectly fine president, and anyone besides Courtney would make a fine Vice President since they don’t do anything anyway.

CNN has a better debate format than MSNBC does. Regular people ask questions, so besides one planted question at the end asking Hillary Clinton about diamonds and pearls, we didn’t get any goofy moments like Tim Russert spending the last five minutes asking candidate about alien invasions. They seem to put the candidates on stage in a random order, though I wonder if it was something more than fate that put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton next to each other. That’s always a huge negative to me with debates, where they’ll put the media darlings in the middle and put everyone else off to the side. MSNBC does this all the time, and Tim Russert on Scarborough this morning went so far as to come out and admit they did it because they want the focus to be on the big players. Alright, then why bother letting Biden, Richards, Kucinich and Dodd even participate? You just admitted you’re not going to give them a fair shake. I hate that. I don’t care for Clinton, I barely care about Obama and I don’t care for Edwards. That means I’m f***ed because I don’t know anything about the other four. Granted, I’m internet savvy and if I do enough digging I could learn more about them, but maybe I want to hear more from their own mouths.

With that said, CNN gave them more opportunities to speak than MSNBC usually does. I still like Biden and surprisingly Kucinich, at least from what I know about them from the debates. Still don’t know enough about Dodd–he doesn’t really stand out to me. He’s that guy that you always remember last and that’s never a good thing. Richardson doesn’t come across like a leader to me. Edwards seems too fake. Obama’s too shaky and I still think he’s prone to pressure from other people. Clinton comes across like a politician to me, and I realize they’re all politicians but she’s so cookie cutter that I can’t stand it. I can picture her backstage coming up with her big one liners before the debate and determining what would be the best thing to say to garner more votes from the right people. A professional politician. I detest that. I want an ordinary person that’s going to tell me what they believe in regardless of whether or not I like it or not. That’s one of the reasons I can somewhat dig a Ron Paul, because at least he’s honest even though I don’t agree with some of what he says. Don’t lie to me or play with me like I’m a pawn.

I’m not done with Clinton yet. Hillary was asked about her performance at the previous MSNBC debate where she couldn’t decide whether or not she was for or against giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. Apparently, she’s said elsewhere and she “Wasn’t at her best that night”. That pissed me off so much and shines a spotlight on everything I’m saying about her. Why do you need to be at your best to answer a yes or no question? When you’re president, is there a certain time of the day we need to reach you where you’ll make better decisions than another time? Are you more effective in the afternoon? Do you just get too sleepy at night to answer yes or no questions? That’s the shittiest excuse I’ve heard for something in a long time. Then some four weeks later after consulting her advisers and determining which course of action will get her the most votes, Hillary says that she’s against giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. Then she attacks Obama for being for it. She’s lost me at this point. She’s going to be the next president and I’d much rather have her in there than Giuliani, and she’s going to be a whole hell of lot better for this country than Bush was, but I’ve got zero faith in her to really pick this country out of the rut it’s in and turn it around.

I didn’t think Obama did a terrible job but the folks that actually analyze this stuff for a living said he failed to capitalize on the previous missteps Clinton made at the last debate. They’re all saying Clinton was on fire but I just don’t see it. I guess I’m looking for something a little different than them.

I’m leaning towards Brian as the write in vote come the actual presidential election. Stewie would get us into too many wars I figure. Then again Brian drinks all the time … maybe I will vote in James from Survivor. Decisions decisions.

I swore not to talk about anything political yesterday and for the most part I kept my promise, even going so far as to sit on this post until today. A waitress in Iowa claims that her manager told her to tell the media that when the Clinton campaign stopped by a Maid-Rite they failed to leave the poor woman a tip. The media, being the media, jumped all over this story like they were covering a terrorist attack of some sort.

The Huffington Post has an interview with the girl that’s a side splitter. This is a smart waitress because she actually points out to the interviewer that with all the terrible things going on in the world, it’s kind of silly that they’d take the time to make a big deal about how some waitress in Iowa wasn’t left a tip. The interview literally replies “Point taken. But could you set the record right about that tip”?

She should’ve clocked him with a frying pan. I’m shocked the cable news channels aren’t all over this yet unless I’ve missed something the past couple days.

Huffington Post - Misplaced Priorities

I’m sorry for going back on my word after two posts but this is kind of funny, and there’s VIDEO~! John McCain made an appearance in North Carolina today, surely hoping to get back on track after some unhelpful comments made by his mother on Hardball last week. He failed thanks to another old woman that asked him at the appearance in regards to Hillary Clinton “How do we beat the bitch?”. McCain laughed it off because really, what else could he have done. I’m sure he’s plenty sick of old people at this point and if we start seeing him change strategies and start campaigning in malls and clubs in the near future, I wouldn’t be surprised.

I have to admit, I’ve been laughing my ass off lately because there’s like 31% of the people in the country right now that approve of where the country is going and I bet if you polled those same people and asked them if they had any faith whatsoever in the country improving once Bush is out office with the current people we have in the running for his spot, you’d might get something in the low 40s. You’ve got Barack Obama’s wife playing the race card, Hillary Clinton playing the gender card … it’s like everyone’s choosing sides in some kind of country wide prison gang war or something. I’m a white guy, who am I supposed to side with? Giuliani? Can I do a write in and just vote to let someone shank me?

Hillary gave a speech the other day where she took a question regarding the environment. Problem is, the chick she took the question from was a plant. Hillary of course claims she didn’t know about it but really what do you expect her to say? “Oh yes, yes I chose that woman to ask me that question beforehand.” Come on. The Fema fake news conference was what, two weeks ago? What bright person thought this would be a good idea?

Meanwhile, I’m still looking for a candidate that actually cares less about race and gender and cares more about pandering to, I dunno, everyone. Course if I find one, they’re not getting the media attention so they won’t win anyway. Is it that hard to just worry about the problems in this country and less about some bracket you want to get the vote from? Christ, that would impress me a hell of a lot more at this point than whatever dumb ass slogan you can come up with. Elementary schools come up with slogans. Beer commercials come up with slogans. F***ing cut the cutesy bullshit, lay your cards on the table, and campaign based on what you have on those cards. That’s all I ask. I’m sick of hearing about Barack Obama’s pin, I’m sick of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s cackle, I’m sick of hearing about the candidates position on UFOs. What a clusterf*** of a presidential race and just looking at it anyone can see exactly what’s wrong with this country. Stupid politicians.