"I'm Not President Bush" - Are You Sure About That?

Fellow Citizens:

Hope all’s well.

My latest blog entry is as a result of the debate, my hyperactive mind, obsessive list-making, and lack of a life:

In last night’s debate, McCain’s one so-called good sound bite was “I’m not President Bush.” Well, you could've fooled me! While I believe that Palin has a lot of Bush characteristics, below is a list of McCain-Bush similarities. Of course, these are my opinions only and I’m just a regular person (a tree-hugging centrist leaning to the left) and as Jeane calls me “a blue chick living in a red state.” (hi, Jeane!)

Same narrow focus,
Same arrogant indifference,
Same sarcasm,
Same sputtering answers,
Same self-righteousness,
Same spoiled brat reactions (we’re how old?),
Same condescension (“I admire your eloquence but you just don’t understand” blah blah blah),
Same self-praise (in Bush’s case a probable sign of an inferiority complex)
Same smirky facial expressions (plus a lot of blinking not to mention that creepy smile),
Same waving the patriotic flag a little too much,
Same “it’s my way or the highway” approach,
Same questionable judgment in selecting running mates (a total understatement),
Same son of privilege trying to prove his value and live up to a family legacy,
Same too much desperation to be President,
Same quick fix offers with no real substance (sure, I can balance a trillion dollar deficit (once a surplus just 8 short years ago) and give you energy independence and health care in 4 short years, with tax cuts for all, all while continuing and/or starting a few wars! I’ll get ‘em!)
Same empty promises (see above),
Same view of use (abuse) of executive power (ditto for Palin and First Dude Palin),
Same “sweetheart” deals gone wrong,
Same alignment on the economy, Iraq and health care (all disastrous),
Same “let’s boost education by competition but not pay for it”,
Same support for appointment of ultra-conservative justices,
Same view against the constitutional right of choice for women (even more so than Bush - scary),
Same skewed view of women ala 1960, (Palin a role model for all women? In what decade? On what planet?)
Same support for tax cuts for the wealthy,
And last but not least,
Same trust in Phil Gramm (nuff said!) in matters of the economy including credit swaps, derivatives and all other disastrous deregulation of finance that has caused us to crash and burn.

Gosh. I’m surprised the list was that long. I really don’t want to spew the negative but I believe that McCain has sold out on a lot of issues just to get elected and he certainly is not the same 2000 “maverick-y” McCain (not that I would have voted for him then – I love you, Al Gore even if you’re incredibly boring). This country needs SIGNIFICANT change and IMO, Obama clearly has what it takes - plus a lot less irritating personal traits. Considering the mess we’ve gotten into (all while Bush has been vacationing in Crawford for the last 4 years) it’s going to take a lot of energy, focus, diplomacy, intelligence, realistic solutions, sacrifice, fairness, and emphasis on education (where it all starts), health care and other basic rights and responsibilities. We’ve got to get it right at home before we go out “liberating” others. We can’t act or fail to act based on fear.

Some of you may disagree in part or whole, but thanks for allowing me to get this off my chest.

I’ll stop now.

P.S. Joe the Plumber is faring okay…much better than most…there is real poverty in this country…so I don’t feel too bad if he can’t afford a bass boat.

Speaking of “Joes”…for the record, I never want to hear the term “Joe Six-Pack” again. We can do better than that.

Vote Obama-Biden

I’m stopping now – promise.

CitizenB