Rick Perry

In my opinion Rick Perry has very little chance of winning the nomination right now. He's done very poorly in the last few debates and his history with racism and a certain rock just aren't appealing factors either. Also his controversial stance on immigration also helped shun his supporters. Unlike Romney though he appeals to many evangelical voters, and he also has a record conservatives like, big on gun control, big on anti-abortion, and big on death penalty, so at this point with Cain falling it looks like its all up in the air for who can get the nomination.

Written by: Bob Gorrell

The key object in this cartoon is the deficit reduction plan and the key character is Superman, but he is admitting defeat.

Gorrell is both alluding to Superman and the Congressional Super Committee.

The main issue this is dealing with is the failure of the Super Committee to agree on anything and to get anything done.

The message is that some one else could be better suited to do that "superjob" and it's a huge project that they have infront of them.

His political preference is seemingly neutral of this author.

A cult that may (not) support abortion?

Recently in the news there has been a series of articles in the news where Mitt Romney was attacked because of his religion. As far as I can see this should have no place in the election, yet people make a huge deal out of it. Robert Jeffress called Mormonism a cult at the Values Voters Summit. They are acting like they are electing the Pope not the Commander In Chief, if Romney can do a better job why should he lose just because he is "not a christian."

It is a shame that religion is constantly pushed just like in the 2008 election where there where people who abstained from voting because of Obama's race.

It should also be noted that Jeffress has made comments similar to this before in 2008 he said "The value of electing a Christian goes beyond public policies. ... Christians are uniquely favored by God, [while] Mormons, Hindus and Muslims worship a false god. The eternal consequences outweigh political ones. It is worse to legitimize a faith that would lead people to a separation from God."

Perry also made some contradictory comments, he reiterated that he would like to completely defund Planned Parenthood. The reasons I see this as contradictory is because 1/5th of what they do is cancer detection and prevention and about 2/5th is STD detection and treatment. This was the reason he used to "justify" his HPV vaccination, to help fight cervical cancer and STD transmission. Yet he wants to completely defund Planned Parenthood simply because of abortions (which less then 3% of the budget is used on). To me this seems like he's willing to hurt thousands of women to push his own personal and ideological agenda.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/rick-perry-mitt-romney-value-voters-abortion-mormonism-cult_n_1000613.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk2|102666

Political Ideals...

Well not surprisingly, when I took ideological tests for Comparative Government it showed I am a centrist. Like most Americans (although most won't acknowledge it) my beliefs are fairly centered and split between both parties. This also allows me to see both sides of an argument equally (just don't use God as part of an argument...) and make my own decisions. Unlike people I have known/know who make decisions based solely on either A) their parents opinions and spoonfed knowledge B) "their" political party (also mostly shoved down their throats by parents), or C) what John Stewart (although John Stewart is always amusing) or Glen Beck (he's not, just ignorant, racist bigot) says. Although my parents are fairly Liberal they don't try and force that on me as long as I actually know what I am talking about. This has encouraged me to become politically literate and have some amount of knowledge of what I talk about when speaking of politics.

American Hikers Released

Sunday 9/25/2011

The American hikers held by the Iranian government for the last two years have been released. The Americans were captured when they may have accidentally crossed the Iraq-Iran border. They were charged with espionage and were sentenced to 8 years each. There were three hikers who were captured were Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd. Shourd was freed in a diplomatic deal negotiated by Oman about a year ago and was out on a $500,000 bond. The two men remained in custody, although on May 20th, 2010 the mothers of the hikers were granted visas to visit them. The two men were released on September 25th, 2011 in a $1,000,000 deal negotiated by Oman. They finally were able to reunite with their families in Oman. Oh and Bauer proposed to Shourd while they were imprisoned.

I'm glad to see they were finally released although this has not helped Iran-USA relations, if anything it has strained them even more.

Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/25/us-hikers-return-home_n_979928.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl9%7Csec1_lnk2%7C98853

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/21/world/la-fg-iran-hikers-20100521