{"id":2213,"date":"2011-06-18T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2011-06-18T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:07:59","slug":"george-carlin-had-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/18\/george-carlin-had-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin Had It Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Carlin – The American Dream (2005):<\/p>\n

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George Carlin was right in 2005, when he made this presentation, and he is even more right today. The question is this: what do we do about it? Do we re-elect Obama or do we start looking, seriously looking, for a solution? My answer is that we start, right now, looking for a viable third-party candidate. Now, I’m quite familiar with those whose knee-jerk reaction to that statement is, “you’re throwing your vote away by voting third-party.” My answer to that is that I already threw my vote away in 2006, 2008 and 2010. There has been no change in this country – we are still spending billions of dollars that we can ill-afford in military adventurism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya. We have millions of unemployed people desperate for a job, any job. We have a vastly unequal wealth distribution in this country. We have a crumbling infrastructure. We have environmental catastrophes – enormous wildfires, severe droughts, disastrous floods, devastating tornadoes. We have sociopaths as governors in several states. We have Republicans running for the presidency who would have been committed to the insane asylum 75 years ago for being pathological liars. Has Obama done anything about any of this? No. Don’t give me excuses about how Obama was dealt a bad hand and that he has to deal with mean Republicans. Obama has no spine and neither does the Democratic Party. Tell me why Obama should be re-elected. Because the alternative is worse? That worked in 2008 for me, but I will no longer vote for the lesser of two evils. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. It is very, very late in the game and many think that the only choice they have is poison or a bullet as their fate. Me? I’m going to choose hope and change. And it isn’t going to be the hope and change that Obama peddled in 2008 and will try to peddle again in 2012.<\/p>\n

To Be Continued …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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