Kemp 2.0 was having a good dance the other day, so we tried to capture it on video. It's a very weird thing to watch. Actually, it sometimes feels a little violent. I think our child is angry about something.
I'm assuming it's something to do with the fact that Sarah Palin is suggesting she has foreign policy experience just because she's from Alaska, even though she didn't even have a US passport until 2007. It angers him. He wonders how McCain can claim he's a reformer when he's voted with George Bush 90% of the time. He tells me that seven of McCain's top officials were Washington lobbyists. Not one or two. Seven! That's an abuse of access. At least, that's what our unborn son thinks. In fact, he can't think of anything the Republicans have done successfully in the last eight years. Abroad, we're less safe and less respected than we've ever been; at home, we can't afford to buy gas, we're losing our homes, and we're lied to by our own government: whether it's Alberto Gonzalez abusing the office of the Attorney General to hire US attorneys that shared his political views; or the warrantless wiretapping of US citizens by the National Security Administration; or Colin Powell providing the UN Security Council with concrete proof of Iraq's (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction; or the vindictive and intentional outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame because of her husband's refusal to continue repeating the same lies; or Donald Rumsfeld's public rebuke of Eric Shinseki, the Chief of Staff of the US Army, for suggesting the war in Iraq would require several hundred thousand soldiers to be executed properly. Abu Ghraib. Habeas corpus. Guantanamo. Lost White House emails. Halliburton contracts. As I write this, the Iraq War has cost US taxpayers $582,977,000,000 (http://zfacts.com/p/447.html). In total, there have been 4173 US military deaths, 444 coalition contractor deaths, almost 200 journalists are dead, and countless tens of thousands of Iraqis (http://icasualties.org/oif/Default.aspx).
Our unborn son is wondering why there's a choice at all.
We're supposed to be the richest country in the world, but our citizens are more likely to be incarcerated (a staggering 2.3 million, or 0.76% of the US population is in jail [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm]), or likely to die by firearm (rates of firearm-related death for children in the US are 16-times higher than that of 25 other industrialized nations combined [http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00046149.htm]), or refused access to health care (in 2007, 16.4% of those over 65, and 9% of those under 18 had no health insurance [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/hinsure.htm]) than any other "wealthy" industrialized nation on the planet. Those sources, our unborn son would like to point out, are all government agencies.
And McCain wonders why Obama's talk about hope, however vague it might be, seems so attractive.
This is just what our unborn son thinks. Here he is kicking his mom's belly, trying to make his point.
Us, though? We're undecided.
I'm assuming it's something to do with the fact that Sarah Palin is suggesting she has foreign policy experience just because she's from Alaska, even though she didn't even have a US passport until 2007. It angers him. He wonders how McCain can claim he's a reformer when he's voted with George Bush 90% of the time. He tells me that seven of McCain's top officials were Washington lobbyists. Not one or two. Seven! That's an abuse of access. At least, that's what our unborn son thinks. In fact, he can't think of anything the Republicans have done successfully in the last eight years. Abroad, we're less safe and less respected than we've ever been; at home, we can't afford to buy gas, we're losing our homes, and we're lied to by our own government: whether it's Alberto Gonzalez abusing the office of the Attorney General to hire US attorneys that shared his political views; or the warrantless wiretapping of US citizens by the National Security Administration; or Colin Powell providing the UN Security Council with concrete proof of Iraq's (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction; or the vindictive and intentional outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame because of her husband's refusal to continue repeating the same lies; or Donald Rumsfeld's public rebuke of Eric Shinseki, the Chief of Staff of the US Army, for suggesting the war in Iraq would require several hundred thousand soldiers to be executed properly. Abu Ghraib. Habeas corpus. Guantanamo. Lost White House emails. Halliburton contracts. As I write this, the Iraq War has cost US taxpayers $582,977,000,000 (http://zfacts.com/p/447.html). In total, there have been 4173 US military deaths, 444 coalition contractor deaths, almost 200 journalists are dead, and countless tens of thousands of Iraqis (http://icasualties.org/oif/Default.aspx).
Our unborn son is wondering why there's a choice at all.
We're supposed to be the richest country in the world, but our citizens are more likely to be incarcerated (a staggering 2.3 million, or 0.76% of the US population is in jail [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm]), or likely to die by firearm (rates of firearm-related death for children in the US are 16-times higher than that of 25 other industrialized nations combined [http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00046149.htm]), or refused access to health care (in 2007, 16.4% of those over 65, and 9% of those under 18 had no health insurance [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/hinsure.htm]) than any other "wealthy" industrialized nation on the planet. Those sources, our unborn son would like to point out, are all government agencies.
And McCain wonders why Obama's talk about hope, however vague it might be, seems so attractive.
This is just what our unborn son thinks. Here he is kicking his mom's belly, trying to make his point.
Us, though? We're undecided.
1 comment:
Hear, hear! That baby is already smarter than most people I encounter on a daily basis.
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