Message to the BBC

Here is a short comment I submitted to the BBC regarding the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Since it was announced that the Republican Convention was to be held in St. Paul I have dreaded the day that the city would start going into lock-down. There have been thousands protesting with nearly all doing so peacefully. A few have caused trouble and have been arrested, rightly so, for breaking windows, etc. But the scenes of a police state are becoming more apparent. House raids, arrests of journalists and the tasering of people not resisting arrest is all well documented. Permitted events have been shut down as well. It is rediculous that the republican party needs millions of dollars and thousands of police, troopers and national guard to simply nominate John McCain as the Republican nominee for president."

Fred Thompson: Booo Teachers!

Yay Fundamentalist Christians! On the way to work this morning I was listening to the radio (NPR) say that Fred Thompson is down in South Carolina trying to pry the evangelical votes away from Huckabee. The way he is doing this is to say that he had won the National Right to Life endorsenment and Huckabee only had the endorsement of the NEA.

Republican politics in this campaign are laughable. Thompson, the guy who got 1% in NH, the guy who was billed as the Neo-Reagan poster boy, came into this election thinking he would be the saviour of the Republican party. Best part is that he is no worse than the top tier candidates, but doesn't stand a chance. As I recently read on the Daily Kos frontpage, the front runners are a guy who doesn't believe in science, a guy who is OK with staying in Iraq for 100 years and a plutocrat attempting to purchase the presidency.

Bi-lingual Countries Do Not Work!

As I said in my previous post, the republican debates ought to be awfully funny. Or perhaps just awful depending on how you look at politics. Rather than watch the entire charade I went for a run and lost a few fat cells rather than brain cells. I did watch the last 30-ish minutes and here is what I thought.

Everyone: Sucks!

Not quite, but listening to Giuliani made me sick to my stomach. Same with Tancredo and Hunter. McCain is kinda turning into the bumbling idiot that Bush always has been. Ron Paul! I want to see more of him. I don't know why. But for real, Tancredo scares the shit out of me.