Chele’s Blog

Politics. Politics. Politics. No matter where I go that’s all I’m hearing. I turn on the television and there it is. Radio? Right there too. It’s starting to drive me insane, so I’ve decided to take my frustrations out on the candidates. There are so many lies that politicians tell and I believe that the candidates running are no different. Obviously at this point we don’t know what the lies are but soon they’re come out when one of the candidates is elected to office. Now, I’m sure McCain will stay true to his word and keep the troops in Iraq. I’m sure that Obama and Hillary would pull out of the war too fast. Those things I believe I can be sure of. Now, I don’t want to repeat the things from my last post so I’ll try to be original here. I can’t guarantee anything though. All I know is right now I want to be able to go somewhere without having to hear about this election. Maybe some of you are the same way … if so, why the hell are you still reading this? Maybe because it’ll be entertaining, well that my friend, I promise you it will be.

John McCain has some, well, interesting views. Believing abortion should be axed? I think not. I’m not fans of people who kill babies but I don’t think it should be illegal. Who likes back alley abortions anyway? I certainly don’t and I would rather not hear about women dying from coat hangers or doctors going to jail because they’re doing something that they believe is right. Abortion was made legal for a reason and I don’t see why McCain thinks he could just take that all away in one swoop. There are a lot of opinions on abortion so I understand that some of you might be saying “abortions are the work of the devil!” but settle down and let me explain some things here. I don’t believe that abortions should be used as a form of birth control and unfortunately that’s what’s happened. Abortions have become a drunken teenager’s one night stand wet dream. After partying, getting laid and getting knocked up they can go to the doctor and kill the baby because it was a ‘mistake’ and it’ll ‘never happen again’. Well according to a study done in 2002 one half of women had already had a prior abortion. About 21 abortions per 1,000 women and 1 out of every 100 had a prior abortion. Looking at those statistics can be startling. Many think that because of those numbers there’s the reason why abortions should be illegal. Making them illegal isn’t going to stop them from happening though. It’ll just make two bodies instead of one (not in all cases but some). So instead of there just being a dead fetus, there will also be a dead mother (like I said, not in all cases). There are some good things that can come from abortions though.

Stem cell research is a hot subject these days. Just like abortion people have various opinions. There are many who think it’s wrong and even though it could help a lot of sick people get better they just don’t want to let it happen. Let’s say that someone has an abortion, well we could use the stem cells from the fetus to help someone who really needs it but if McCain were elected that would never happen. I guess it’s a moral thing when it comes to this issue. If someone kills their baby, the babies are gone right? There’s no turning back. If we can donate our bodies to science why the hell not be able to do stem cell research? Just because it was an unborn fetus? I’m not trying to be cold here. Not in the least but I think that there are too many lives that could be helped and possibly saved. There are 100 stem cells in an embryo. The cells can be kept indefinitely to be grown in cultures where they can double in 2-3 days. Double!! That sounds like a pretty good statistic to me. Murder is the main word used when it comes to stem cell research but I don’t see how it’s murder. If the fetus is already dead then there is no murder, I don’t care what people say.

“The US has appropriated more $400 billion to date on the disastrous War in Iraq debacle. If just 1% of that amount was set aside for US embryonic stem cell research, most scientists and medical researchers believe that many millions of lives can be restored and saved.” Quoted from http://usliberals.about.com/od/stemcellresearch/i/StemCell1_2.htm

Now 1% isn’t a whole lot when you look at how much is being spent on the war. 1% of $400 billion can save millions of lives yet McCain says no? You can’t please everyone, I understand but this is HUGE. Millions of lives could be saved by just taking a small percentage out of the budget for the war. How scary is that? Can you imagine living with a disease like ALS and having your friends and family watch you deteriorate and the whole time you know that there’s something that could give you a chance yet nothing’s being done? It makes me so angry to know that this is going on.

Besides politics the other thing that you constantly hear about is the war. Every day (so it seems) you hear another news report about troops dying overseas. Was this war really needed? Did we catch those evil-doers? I thought the whole purpose of the war was to catch the terrorists. I don’t recall Iraq being part of the terrorists. I thought that was targeted at Afghanistan. Maybe I’m wrong and there were Iraqi terrorist on 9/11 but I don’t remember hearing about it. So now we’re in Iraq telling a country how to deal with shit. Telling them it’s a democracy now and you better like it. I say pull out. Not right away though. Obviously things needs some time to take its course but we need to pull out. McCain says no, however. He wants to keep those troops in and not only that … HE WANTS TO ADD MORE TROOPS. I think there’s been enough life lost over there by now that there shouldn’t be a need to add anymore troops to the equation but I guess I’m wrong. Since the politicians know best and all. I can go on and on about this all day but I won’t. I just don’t see why there needs to be more senseless deaths. This is a country that we didn’t need to go into in the first place. I’m sure Bush Sr. is happy that his little baby boy caught Saddam but we really didn’t need to be there to start a war.

Global warming is something that everyone should be concerned about. It’s something that could destroy this earth so why hasn’t there been anything done about it? Scientists keep saying that it’s going to get worse if things don’t change. Sure, hybrid cars came out but they cost an arm and leg that most people can’t afford one. It’d be nice to drive a hybrid though. I was reading through McCain’s issue page and stumbled across “Environment” under one of the issues. Now McCain believes we should do something about global warming and cleaning up the air and water but he really doesn’t go into what he plans on doing. Is he going to invest a couple billion dollars to help car owners buy hybrids? That would be nice. Why not give the tax payers a little bit of an incentive to buy one of those expensive cars? I highly doubt that would ever happen. So what does he plan on doing? Who knows? He talks a lot about what needs to be done but not about how he’s going to do it. Sure it’s nice to hear a candidate talk about what he wants to do but it falls a bit short when he fails to tell the public how he plans to take action.

Maybe I’m being too hard on McCain … okay maybe I’m not. It’s just that when I read over his website it really didn’t wow me. It didn’t make me say ‘hey this is a candidate I can believe in’. I’m bias to begin with though. He’s not for gay marriage and let’s face it, I am. He’s not for stem cell research but I am. He wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade and I think he’s insane for even bringing it up. I think it’s great when candidates tell you what they want to do to help America become a better country but it’s even better when they tell you how they’re going to do it. Now McCain may have said how he’s going to change things elsewhere but I’m going off his website so maybe that’s a wrong of me. I honestly don’t think so though. If a candidate can say it in a speech he can write it for EVERYONE to read. So to sum everything up, I think John McCain is an asshole. Period.