{"id":407,"date":"2008-11-06T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-a-memorable-election-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T04:17:19","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-a-memorable-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-a-memorable-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of a Memorable Election Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s over.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally!\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoy the theater of politics (and am fully aware that it is nothing but<\/em> theater) but this was like watching Warhol’s movie “Empire” (a single eight hour shot of the Empire State building) without taking a pee break.<\/p>\n

The Good <\/strong><\/p>\n

In every election there is fraud, chicanery and a bit of honest error on both sides.\u00c2\u00a0 The size of the landslide means none of that matters.\u00c2\u00a0 The Democrats incessant whining about Al Gore’s Florida votes was more annoying Fran Drescher singing opera.\u00c2\u00a0 At least we won’t have to put up with “stolen election” claims any longer.<\/p>\n

Anyone who still claims America is a Racist Nation (you can hear the capital letters when they say it) can be laughed at.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, there are still racists out there, and there always will be.\u00c2\u00a0 (Human beings, after all, are tribal creatures.)\u00c2\u00a0 But the concept that the nation, as a whole, is racist has been put to rest.\u00c2\u00a0 Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson may have to find honest work.<\/p>\n

Uber-nanny Ralph Nader<\/a> has been thoroughly bitch slapped.\u00c2\u00a0 No one paid any attention to him.\u00c2\u00a0 When he visited Dartmouth only 40 people showed up, and less than ten of them were Dartmouth students.<\/p>\n

We’ll finally get out of Iraq, the stupidest blunder in America’s history.<\/p>\n

No more George W. Bush!\u00c2\u00a0 George will go down in history as the worst president, ever<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Worse than Jimmy Carter.\u00c2\u00a0 Worse than FDR.\u00c2\u00a0 Worse than anyone in our entire history.\u00c2\u00a0 Good riddance to horrible, stinky, downright evil rubbish.<\/p>\n

The Bad <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no evidence that it has ever even occurred <\/em>to Obama that government is usually the problem, not the solution.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to every failure in society is a government program, and when it inevitably fails or makes the problem worse, the solution to that is making the program bigger or creating yet another program.<\/p>\n

The ideal situation in Washington is having someone from one party in the White House and another in Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 This provides at least a bit of a slowdown government growth. With socialists in both places we can expect more and more big huge monstrous government, although it’s hard to imagine anyone growing it more than Bush did.\u00c2\u00a0 My guess is they will view that as a challenge, and exceed expectations.<\/p>\n

The Ugly<\/strong><\/p>\n

California’s Proposition 8 passed, writing discrimination against gays into the state’s constitution.\u00c2\u00a0 This proves that direct democracy is a rotten way to run government.\u00c2\u00a0 It also supports my theory that 90% of the problems in the world are caused by people minding other people’s business.\u00c2\u00a0 Gay marriage had no effect on anyone who voted against it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s rather disgusting that a majority of people, a small majority, but a majority none-the-less, decided to institutionalize discrimination against people for doing something they consider icky.<\/p>\n

Obama said, clearly and without hesitation, that he wants to “spread the wealth.”\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, redistribute income.\u00c2\u00a0 Successful, hard working people will be forced to share a disproportionate amount of their income with those who couldn’t bother to be successful themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps we should start calling each other “comrade.”<\/p>\n

We are facing massive deficits.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is the current deficit crippling, but Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security represent trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.\u00c2\u00a0 The government will have no choice but to increase the money supply, which will lead to rampant inflation.<\/p>\n

Socialized medicine is on its way.\u00c2\u00a0 As P. J. O’Rourke says, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”\u00c2\u00a0 This will accelerate the bankruptcy of the country, and we can expect health care to gradually deteriorate to the abysmal level now found in VA hospitals.<\/p>\n

Obama’s poor understanding of economics, coupled with his love of big government, coupled with our current massive debt, coupled with our enormous future liabilities, means that we are thoroughly and deeply screwed.\u00c2\u00a0 Like FDR, he and his buddies in congress will make the problem even more dire, and every one of us will be the victims of everything they do “for our own good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s over.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally!\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoy the theater of politics (and am fully aware that it is nothing but theater) but this was like watching Warhol’s movie “Empire” (a single eight hour shot of the Empire State building) without taking a pee break. The Good In every election there is fraud, chicanery and a bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}