After eight years of failed policies of George Dubbya Bush that nearly lead us into fascism, the Republican Party is going down in flames.  The Republican Party has done its part to shoot themselves in the foot by trying to take a discrimatory tone (particularly towards gays and immigrants) to insure its downfall.  Simply, the Republican Party is out of touch with the American people.  With that said, its time for a new era of American politics, lead by true leaders like Barack Obama.

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This video exposes the truth that ExxonMobil and the Bush Administration have spinned Global Warming around to make it sound less threatening.

To try to keep a Republican in the white house, the Republican Party is trying to rig the election by splitting up California's electoral votes.  They're trying to put the Presidential Election Reform Act (PERA) on the primary ballot to reward the electoral votes by congressional districts, instead of the winner takes all system, which would mean that 20 of California's 55 electoral votes would go to the Republican Party, which would be enough for the Republican presidential candidate would likely win the next election.  The problem is, the Republican Party wants to install this in only Blue state California, claiming fair play, but doesn't practice what they preach elsewhere, like a red state such as Texas. 

My question is how come the Republican Party is resorting to cheating?  Is it because they know they can't win this year's election because of their downfall, or because they want to monopolize our government into a one party system?

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When I read today's paper and looked at the letter to the editorials, I stumbled onto two letters that I just couldn't ignore.

The first one is titled "Hard to Spot Illegals." 

"In the ensuing years, illegal workers became more creative and, with the assistance of the ACLU, essentially blackmailed farmers and farm corporations into hiring them."

Umm, ok, so how exactly do illegals blackmail employees or farm corperations into hiring them, and how exactly is the ACLU helping them?  Do they come up to the millionair farmer with a gun pointed to their head telling them to "hire me"? 

"Now people want to fine or put out of business companies that hire illegals. It is more complicated than that. Thanks to advanced technology and a certain element that sells false documents to these people, companies can unknowingly hire an illegal. Leave the employers alone and go after the gang members and smugglers."

I can agree with the part of the last sentence, and that some companies unkowingly hire undocument immigrants, but according to this sentence we're suppose to lay all the blame on the illegal immigrants coming here for a better life, and give Amnesty to the corporations that DO knowingly hire them illegally?  Sounds like a big business republican to me looking for a scape goat to cover the employer's ass by laying blame on the immigrants instead of the rich farmer looking for a cheap buck.

The other one is titled "Bush stands for right things"

"Unlike President Clinton, he is unapologetically religious, extremely patriotic and believes that this country should stand against the enemy."

If President Bush is so "religous" than why does he ignore the teachings of Jesus Christ against corporate greed and helping the poor?  Also, if he's so religous how come he wants to torture prisoners of war, and gave Scooter Libby, a convicted felon on 4 counts, Amnesty by cutting off his prison sentence?  Also, the last time I checked, President did more to stand up against are enemies by making a Better effort at trying to kill Osama Bin Laden.

"The Democrat Party is now controlled by socialists, unions, ACLU, hard-core feminists, radical environmentalists, abortionists, gay activists, and a leadership that shows contempt for Christianity by opposing everything from the cross and public prayer to religious holidays."

Last time I checked, there is only ONE socialist in congress, and he is a registered Independent.  Also, how exactly is supporting "labor unions" suppose to be a bad thing?  Also, every environmentalists is a "radical environmentalist."  So we're suppose to destroy our planet and let the smog hang over Bakersfield?  And if Democrats have a contempt for Christianity and want to eliminate religous holidays, how come we still have Easter and Christmas?

"These loud, angry pro-European, anti-American, anti-military Democrats have made their agenda crystal clear -- they just don't like America and would like to change it into a liberal socialist country."

Last time I checked, Hugo Chavez IS NOT a member of the Democratic party.  If Democrats are so anti-American, anti-military, than how come they authorized the war in Afganistan after the 9/11 attacks, and give our troops the armor they need by giving them the proper funding? 

With Florida back at the big dance for the 2nd year in a row, they're looking to prove that last year's national championship wasn't a fluke.  They are loaded with outside shooters and a tough inside game.  Ohio State has a monster for a big man, Greg Oden, and a quick point guard Connely.  Ohio State starts two freshmen, which I think will put them at a disadvantage against Florida in which their entire starting five is back from last year.  Florida has much more experience and more weapons than Ohio State, so I'm picking the Gators.

The trade bargo and traveling ban against Cuba is hurting the American people.  People should have the right to travel to any place in the world they want, and you're taking that right away from them with the traveling ban.  Lifting the embargo would be beneficial to both countries, with millions of American tourist flying to Havana, and millions of Cuban cigars being sold in the U.S.  The trade embargo was placed on Cuba because of the communist government that Fidel Castro put in place, but yet we don't have any trade embargos against other communist countries like Vietnam and China, which China benefits from ultra-cheap labor.  The main supporters of the trade union are Cuban Americans who hate Fidel Castro.  Their hatred for Castro is understandable, but it shouldn't cloud the economic opportunities or the right for people to travel freely to Cuba.

Of all the red herrings in the world, the biggest one is saying that the Iraq War is part of the War on Terrorism.  The War on Terrorism is the war in Afganistan, finding Osama Bin Laden and bringing him to justice.  Iraq is in Civil War, and we don't need to spend $400 Billion to bring democracy to a country that wants a theocracy.  Imagine what we could use that $400 Billion for?  Maybe secure our own borders, provide jobs, healthcare, and assistance to needy families.  Adding 21,000 more troops to Iraq isn't going to stabilize a country thats in complete chaos. 

One arguement I keep on hearing is that by leaving Iraq, we would inevitably fight the "terrorist" on our homeland.  So if this is true, why don't we redirect our attention to Afganistan and search for BIn Laden instead?  If we would have stayed the course to search for Bin Laden instead of Iraq, there would be very little opposition.  The democrats probably would have never even taken back the house and the senate if we never went into Iraq and just focused on Bin Laden.  Why don't we get out of Iraq and refocus our attention to the real war on terror, and bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. 

What we need is a time table in Iraq.  Pull our troops out slowly over the course of 1 year, train Iraqi forces, and let the Iraqi government know they can't rely on us to do everything.  Maybe even build a U.S. military base in Iraq with about 5,000 troops to give the Iraqi's reinforcements.  Then, shift our attentiont o finding Bin Laden.