An Idiot for More Blunt and Sex, Less Violence and Greed

McCamy Taylor

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Sun Aug-10-08 11:31 PM
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An Idiot for More Blunt and Sex, Less Violence and Greed

I am amazed, just amazed at the number of people who are personally offended that John Edwards cheated on them. Who knew he was a Mormon, and that he was supporting so many wives? We all know that what happens within a marriage affects only two people---the husband and wife---and maybe their children if they are not discreet. So, all of these whining self professed Democrats must be Edwards� women tearing out their hair over John�s infidelity.

If only they could work up as much passion for this:

http://www.dso.uncc.edu/women/TBN_Web/stats.html

Between 1/3 and 1/2 of all adult women are beaten by their husbands or lovers at some time in their lives. 14% of American women acknowledge having been violently abused by a husband or boyfriend.

92% of women who were physically abused by their partners did not discuss these incidents with their physicians; 57% did not discuss the incidents with anyone.

In the U.S., every 9 seconds a woman is physically abused by her husband.

Consensual sex or spouse abuse? I know which one I consider a problem.

How about Barrack Obama? When he was a kid, he did the kinds of things that kids do---and that some adults like to do, too, if they are born with a silver coke spoon up their nose like our current president. While few would fault a teenager for experimenting with weed and cocaine, some might question the judgment of a professional man (an attorney) who chose to write about the experiences in his autobiography. It sure got him a lot of attention that he might have wanted to avoid.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200712170004

Matthews accused Clinton's campaign of engaging in "dirty politics," he began the December 14 edition of Hardball by asking, "Is the Clinton campaign pushing the drug story? When it comes to stopping Obama, do things go better with coke?" Matthews and his guests then proceeded to say "cocaine" a total of 10 times during the December 14 show.

I can say it more times than that. So what? It�s a medication that is also used for recreational purposes. Big deal. What people choose to smoke, snort, inject and imbibe for their own amusement pales in comparison to this :

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2004/september/number_of_uninsured_.php

18,000 Americans die every year because of lack of health care, and one million middle class families go bankrupt for medical bills. Death and bankruptcy � that is real terror for any family!

Wasn't there something about the other candidate that was supposed to make me feel more offended than the Bush-Cheney lies about WMDs that have killed 4000 U.S. troops, wounded 100,000 more and killed over half a million Iraqis? I remember KO and a bunch of DUers going on about it. What was it....?

That's right! I was supposed to feel personally slighted, because Hillary Clinton said that she landed under sniper fire, but the TV cameras do not show sniper fire. She was talking to me. She was stealing my thunder, in advance, from the time when I am going to run through sniper fire, making it seem like just anyone can do it. What is it that they called it? Valor theft? That�s right. From the day which will surely come when I will be asked to fly into a war zone to lift the morale of troops. Damn! Now I�m going to have to run through sniper fire and when I get home, people will say �So what! Hillary already did it!� That witch! She stole all the glory!

I might get around to worrying about that one, if I can find time when I am not thinking about this:

http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc300.php

It is estimated that 43 percent (157 of 366) of all armed organizations in the world use child soldiers, 90 percent of whom see battle. In the last decade, more than 2 million children have been killed in combat, a rate of some 500 per day.

Here is a map of countries where children are forced to fight. Note that these are not George W. Bush�s so called �Axis of Evil�, these are just plain countries.

http://hrw.org/children/child_soldiers_map.html

I expect that those Democrats who were planning to vote for John Edwards to be president of Good and Faithful Husband for Elizabeth are a mite displeased, just as those who were planning to vote for Hillary Clinton to be president of Runs Through Sniper Fire probably had their hopes dashed.

On the other hand, Democrats who view elections as a chance to elect leaders who will tackle the many problems which confront our country and the globe know that any one of these three candidates is up to the challenge.

If we lived in France, we would not even be having this discussion. Vive la France.