Okay, so not voting Republican is an easy decision for me. That's my bias, straight up. I could list my reasons but that's not the intention of this post. If you check out my blog history you will see I am not a regular blogger or even semi-regular blogger; so you know I must be motivated by something, right? In light of the upcoming election season and the importance of recent state, national and international events I feel compelled to speak out.
Please think critically about your 2008 Presidential Election vote. What kind of experience does a person need to run a country on the verge of economic downfall? How have you been affected by the down turn in the economy? Are you ready to spend tax dollars to bail out companies? What credentials are important for World politics as they are today and where they may be heading? Can you honestly say a VP with little or no experience regarding these major issues is the best person to be next in line to run our country? I am not looking for your answers to these rhetorical questions; but simply asking you to think critically about your vote. We do need change, no doubt; but please remember there is way more than any one issue to consider. Please choose wisely, your country may depend on it.
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The lunacy of Biden is well documented. You probably know about his encouraging Jimmy Carter to toss Iran to the Mullahs and his ingenious plan to divide Iraq into 3 countries.
But perhaps you didn't know Biden was one of only five senators to vote against the first Alaskan pipeline bill in 1973.
The Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming 80-5 vote. Only five senators voted against the pipeline on final passage. Sen. Biden is the only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four having been confined to mental institutions long ago.
The stakes were clear: This was in the midst of the first Arab oil embargo. Liberal Democrats, such as senators Robert Byrd, Mike Mansfield, Frank Church and Hubert Humphrey, all voted for the pipeline.
But Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation's enemies by about the same amount.
The only argument against the pipeline was that it would harm the caribou, an argument that was both trivial and wrong. The caribou population near the pipeline increased from 5,000 in the 1970s to 32,000 by 2002.
It would have been bad enough to vote against the pipeline bill even if it had hurt the caribou. A sane person would still say: Our enemies have us in a vice grip. Sorry, caribou, you've got to take one for the team. But when the pipeline goes through and the caribou population sextuples in the next 20 years, you really look like a moron.
How did it feel to get the big state bonus from Sarah this year in spite of Biden's vote?
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