Okay, so what a week...so far anyway! This past weekend I drove up to Dumfries, Virginia and helped out a friend of mine with a campaign she was a part of for this election cycle. This past weekend was GOTV - Get Out The Vote - and it was so awesome! It felt great being a "volunteer" but I really got involved and fell right into the swing of things. I have a confession: I LOVE GOTV and E-Day!!! I love the excitement, organizing walk packets, cutting turf, organizing volunteers, making calls, etc. It is "the rawest form of Democracy" and I love it! Anyway, on Saturday night I drove up to DC - my city - and I just felt right at home. This is because I spent a full semester in Washington for an internship at the Department of Education. This was the same semester that President Obama was inaugurated so that was a big plus! I have too many memories of that time in my life, haha! Anyway, Washington, D.C. is my city and I can't wait to go back and live there. After all of these adventures, I found out that the candidate I was helping my friend out with had won re-election! This is wonderful and it feels really good to be apart of a winning campaign. Yay for Team Toddy!
I was also surprised that State Bill five was rejected by the voters of Ohio. As far as I know, this bill would have allowed the break-up of unions in Ohio. I'm not well versed in Labor Union issues or relations so I will not comment too much on this. All I will say is for the friends that were involved in making sure SB5 was rejected had a major victory on Tuesday. I wish I could understand the Labor Unions and the issues that are important to them; well, maybe one of these days I'll fully understand it.
Well, the other thing was the 500th Republican Debate last night in Michigan (The next debate will be on Friday in Utah and the topic will be family values....I'm kidding). I mean honestly, it is really necessary to have a debate at least once a week until there is a candidate? The only thing that really changes is the way they answer the questions. It's the same empty rhetoric and finger-pointing of "my plan is better than their plan" which is childish. I decided to watch the CNBC debate because I figured what else is there to do other than watch Survivor? I will admit that whenever they went to either a break or Michele Bachmann I flipped the channel to Survivor. Now I know that some of you are thinking that I'm sexist. You're wrong! First of all, I really don't see her being the republican nominee; second, she offers no viable answers to anything she is asked or either agrees with Gingrich; third, she doesn't understand any concept of how the economy works or even how to create jobs since she couldn't do it in her own district in Minnesota (and I'm sorry but having a family practice to "pray the gay away" does NOT qualify as a legitimate business........do I dare mention the words separation of Church and State?); and the final point, she has nothing else to offer voters since her peak was back when she won the Iowa Straw Poll. Since then, she has stated controversial (and wrong facts) things on HPV and its link to mental retardation, her staff and campaign have abandoned her and have joined another campaign - I think Romney but it really doesn't matter for the sake of this point, and she just can't get passed the whole "Obamacare is wrong and I'll repeal it" battle cry. I mean, how stupid! Maybe if she had read the law then she would understand just how important it is especially to those with pre-existing conditions, the senior citizens, etc. Oh yeah, to those that argue that it hurts small businesses, the democrats wanted to the taxes out of the bill because they knew it would hurt small businesses but the Republicans decided to leave it in and attempt to sell it as a "democratic" mistake. Okay, I won't get started on the Health Care bill but seriously people!
I have a feeling that Rick Santorum will be the next to get out of the race. I also find it hard to believe that the winners of the debate last night were Romney & Gingrich. I did NOT like the way he was treating Maria Bartiromo and his arrogant style is just making him look stupid. If you don't want to answer a question...then don't freakin' show up for the debate. I mean, it's not like you'll be the nominee! Surprisingly, Herman Cain did a decent job of answering the allegation questions...wonder which political person helped him with that since he is a "businessman" and not a politician? One final thing about the fiasco last night...and in every republican debate: can we please stop saying we want to eliminate federal departments that are not "Constitutional" because it just makes you look incredibly stupid. If you really wanted to start with elimination of federal departments based on Constitutionality, then you would begin with George W. Bush's "Department of Homeland Security" as we already have a Department of Defense. Furthermore, I would LOVE to see just how many of you went to college without ANY federal help and were able to pay all expenses out of pocket. That reminds me, Gingrich thinks all students should be cattle in college and only be there for studying.....I wonder how the Greek members of Washington feel about that? Surely those presidents who were in Ivy League Fraternities would disagree because Gingrich believes we should go to college strictly to go to college and leave after obtaining all classes - and eliminating all extra-curriculars including Greek Life, Student Government, Residential Living, Internships, etc. Again, how stupid! Okay, well I guess I will stop for now.
In other news, I'm still waiting for my GRE scores. I do believe they will arrive this week. I can see Graduate School getting closer and closer. Thank you Department of Education for helping me afford college!!! Oh wait, did I say that out loud??? I mean seriously, let's privatize everything so those that can afford it will be able to do it and those that can't will suffer. Okay, I'm sorry; I did say I would stop. Honestly.....talk about class warfare - lead by the Republican party and their privatizing everything! I love the argument of returning everything to the states; yeah, because the states are broke so clearly they know how to manage money let alone other things for their citizens.
Anyway....it is almost Thanksgiving so yay for going to New York to visit my other side of the family! I still haven't decided if I am going to fly or drive. I do have a strong feeling I'll be driving though. I guess we'll see!
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