I’m bitter…You should be too
April 14, 2008 at 5:50 pm | In politics | 1 CommentTags: Barack Obama, Bitter, Blue Collar, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Once again Barack Obama has spoken the truth. And once again Hillary Clinton and John McCain are trying to make a big deal about it.
I honestly don’t see what the big deal is about Obama’s bitter comment. Are middle class blue collar workers bitter? Maybe, maybe not but I’ll tell you something. They should be…we all should be.
I am certainly bitter. I am bitter that I couldn’t openly serve in the military if I wanted to, that my boyfriend and I won’t’ have our relationship recognized by our own government. That as a public school teacher I see the conditions my students have to grow up in simply because they weren’t lucky enough to be born rich. I am bitter that we are now in the sixth year of a war that I knew was wrong before it even started. I am bitter that the last time I got gas I paid $3.85 a gallon. I’m bitter that so many people in this country want to put me in a box. I’m too white to be Mexican and since I’m not 100% white I’m not really white either.
I come from a blue collar family. My mom worked at a grocery store and my dad drove a truck for UPS. I lived in several trailers growing up.
And yes when I am bitter I turn to my own belief system and I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Look around you there is a whole lot to be bitter about and that is not elitist.
What would the map look like part 2
April 7, 2008 at 6:04 pm | In politics | Leave a CommentTags: 2008 Presidential Election, Add new tag, Barack Obama, Electoral College, Electoral Map, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Swing States
So if the general election took place today what would the electoral map look like?
Here is McCain Vs. Obama
These polls would put Obama at 261 and McCain at 268…The white of Colorado means the latest polls shows a tie…This confirms my long standing belief that Colorado (a long time Republican stronghold) could end up being the Florida or Ohio of 2008…If the map looked like this whoever won Colorado would win the White House.
There are a couple of things I like and a couple of thigns i don’t like about this map…Obama looks to be in fairly good shape in Ohio, Pensylvania and New Jersey (big time states). And I am still impressed with the fact that the polls show him up in North Dakota. I also like that he could cause the Republicans to spend money in Texas and South Carolina…TEXAS for crying out loud…I don’t like seeing New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan red.
Here his the McCain vs. Clinton Map:
These polls would put McCain at 273 and Clinton at 265. If things play out like this McCain wins…Clinton has talked a lot about how she can win in the bigs states. This map shows that. She wins Florida, Ohio and Pensylvania but she still looses. How is that? Well…She looses in Washington and Oregon (those states haven’t been red since 1984), she looses Michigan and Wisconsin…Loosing those four states basicaly cancel out Ohio and Pensylvania…What about Colorado? While Obama has it tied Clinton looses it by 14%.
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