While cruising the Internets I came across an interesting article by Christopher Hitchens. Yes, that Hitches. It was in Slate Magazine's online site and he wrote an article about how Barack Obama is the only one who is addressing the problems in Pakistan.
While reading it, it occurred to me that it seems to me the republicans are actually the party that are more like what they stereotype democrats as.
Dreamy, Airy, Unrealistic, Whiney and Elitist.
During the Bush years we have seen a bunch of men behaving like little boys living out their fantasies of war and playing cowboy. they honestly thought they could invade some third world country and rebuild it as the shiny example of what the conservative ideal society would look like and oh, how it would succeed.
Yet, they accuse democrats of living in fantasy and not being able to handle the real world.
Excuse me? In the late 1960s young adults and teens dreamt of building a utopian society but, that was the dreams of the young.
These are fully grown up people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who were dreaming of building their version of an ideal society in a third world country in the middle of the most volatile region in the world.
Tell me again why democrats are not realistic and live in utopian fantasies and republicans are down to earth and realistic.
If republicans are so good at national security then why did they ignore all the warnings even before Bush took office about Bin Laden. During the transition the Clinton administration sat them down and tried to tell them that was the most important thing they would need to focus on.
They ignored it.
They ignored it when warnings came all summer that something was up and that they needed to do something.
And after Bin Laden struck, did we finish the job of going after the Taliban and catching Bin Laden?
Are the republicans even worried about catching him now or that there is some very scary things going on in Pakistan and in Afghanistan? Have they even paid attention or done anything to address it.
Do they care that the Taliban is now setting up camps in northern Africa, just across the Mediterranean from Europe?
Tell me again why democrats are so weak on National Security and republicans are better equipped.
One of the most frustrating and confusing things to me is the tag of elitist.
Cindy McCain went to the convention in $300,000 outfits. Her monthly bill for clothes is over $750,000. Now she is an heiress and she has every right to go to chic boutiques to shop for her clothes but, do not then, try to say Michelle Obama is an elitist, gop.
Besides, it's pretty bad when the republicans standard bearer doesn't know how many houses he has.
Or that is he photographed on his 70th birthday boarding the luxury yacht of a notorious playboy conman and Tom Delay was holding fancy holidays for lobbyists in various spots around the world that caters to the well off.
Every policy the republicans have is geared to the comfort of the rich and corporations. The bailouts were managed with making sure the poor CEOs being ousted got their golden parachutes - at taxpayers expense.
But, do the repuboicans care about the average employee losing his or her job or the middle class paying for those golden parachutes? Of course not.
Republicans want to do away with public school and have it become like a free market with vouchers for private schools rather then do what it takes to fix them. Besides, if the kid becomes well educated, the republicans think, it is only a waste since he will not afford to go to college unless his parents are rich. so why bother.
The republicans pushed to redo the medicare prescription bill so that big pharma and the insurance companies could get their slice. And they are totally against helping everyone have affordable healthcare. You are gonna die anyway and it's better to rid our society of the poor and elderly rather then have them as dead weights. right.
So, tell me again why the democrats are elitists. Tell me against why democrats do not understand the working and middle class and how the republicans are so much better for them.
I think it is time the true labels be attached to the actual party because I am soooooo sick of this upside down labeling and how democrats are stereotyped as being what republicans really are.