By Ryne Colt Radigan | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 11:55 am AKST - Posted in Politics, Rant

In today’s heightened political word it seems like the moment you mention you are a republican, you are automatically labeled a dumb redneck, and even sometimes a racist.  This is not true.  You can’t use political beliefs to determine Intelligence Quotient.  This needs to stop, if it doesn’t all you are going to do is piss off the right, and I believe that the fence sitters (who won the election for Obama) will pick up on it as well and in the next election will consider it cruel.  The American public is fickle as we recently learned yet again.

Now with all that being said, all liberals are not pussies either.  It was beliefs such as this that lost the election for republicans.  Both sides need to stop these broad labeling practices.  Both Republicans and Democrats need to respect, not like, the other sides viewpoints and based on that come to some sort of compromise.  I don’t see the two party system disappearing in this country in the near future, so we should try to develop a less painful way of dealing with the differences this political style presents.

“Can’t we all just get along?”
LOL

By Ryne Colt Radigan | Monday, January 19, 2009 - 1:23 pm AKST - Posted in Politics, Rant

I am back!

Yes after a sabatical from posting I am back and will try to post regularily.

Ok so here is the topic that has got me going today.  The pre-inaguration of Barack Obama.  To me it seemed like nothing more than a specticle.  Gratned he is the first black person to be elected president,  and that is worth celebrating.  However,  there were multiple instances of people referencing Licoln during this presentation.  They did make references to the fact that Licnoln freed the slaves, and if he did not Obama would not have even been allowed to even run for president, and this is a valid point.  But it also seemed to me that because of this relationship they were saying that Obama would be as great as Lincoln (personal opinion).  This can not be assumed.  Perhaps Obama will be a great president, but no one can say defenitively that he will be a great president.

P.S.

Keep in mind that this is only the “pre-inauguration” celebration, the real inauguration will occur tommorrow.