Politics

12
Aug
2007

Romney in Iowa

For all of those Romney fans who feel super cool about the win in Iowa consider the following:

The three top contenders in the race, Giuliani, McCain, and Thompson chose not to participate.  Romney was competing with the likes of Huckabee and Brownback, names that garner a couple percentage points each in national polls.

Romney outspent his nearest competitor by 10-1.  Add on top of that the fact that this was a vote at a Republican fundraiser, not a vote of all Republicans.

Romney’s victory doesn’t seem that great to me.

Posted by Paul in Mormonism, Politics, US Politics, Utah Politics
29
Jul
2007

Gangs In the Military?

Here is an interesting story from CBS news.  Apparently gang culture is evident in the US Military, with American gang signs seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Posted by Paul in Global Politics, Political Scandal, Politics, US Politics
15
Jul
2007

Democrats in congress: IT IS TIME TO LEAVE IRAQ.

Democrats and progressive Republicans need to heed the clear intent of the American public by ceasing funding of the war.  Over 2/3 of Americans disagree with continuing the war.  Democrats need to stall, fight, and quit anything that provides any power for Bush to continue the war.

Posted by Paul in Global Politics, US Politics
03
Jun
2007

Watching Newt

I am watching Fox News Sunday and good old Newt is ripping on the president.  While I don’t agree with many of his motives, he does bring up many valid points.  More evidence that the Republican party is very fractured.  I don’t think it matters who gets the GOP nomination, a Democrat will win in ’08.

Posted by Paul in Politics, US Politics
05
May
2007

Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson PWNS Sean Hannity

It was a messy, nasty debate.  At times I could barely stand to watch, because of the disorder.  However, through the whole debate we saw a couple constant themes appear:

Rocky Anderson:  Stuck to the facts, attacked the president based on his facts.

Sean Hannity:  Attacked Rocky Anderson, called to “Support the Troops.” and avoided defending the president.

I wasn’t really surprised by the tone of the debate, however, I think Hannity may have been surprised by the veracity of the crowd.  The crowd was surprisingly about equally divided between supporters and skeptics of the war in Iraq.

Posted by Paul
30
Apr
2007

The Mormons — PBS Frotline / American Experience

Tonight the wife and I watched part one of “The Mormons,” a PBS documentary about the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  It was a fairly interesting 2 hours that appeared to try to honestly be fair and balanced.  My great question is what did actual mormons think about this documentary?

Posted by Paul
26
Apr
2007

Utah’s Attorney General is full of shit.

I am happy to see that Utah’s attorney general, Mark Shurtleff is in line with the Republican hacks who believe things are going well in Iraq.  In a really useful speech the attorney general referred to Senate Majority leader as  “Hezbolla Harry.” He also compared Mayor Rocky Anderson to World War II traitors.  Thanks Mark Shurtleff for showing the close minded people of Utah that is it unpatriotic to see reality.  You know the bible says something like thou shalt not kill, but I guess God is just a weak minded idiot who would gladly surrender to terrorists.

Posted by Paul
14
Mar
2007

US Politics get intereting.

It is awesome to see the government function now that Democrats are in power.  Alberto Gonzales looks like he is sinking, as his department has flat out lied about its political firings.  The senate also appears to be resuming the war debate, which is a very good thing!  I want to see an official date for withdrawal from Iraq.

Posted by Paul in US Politics, Utah Politics
18
Feb
2007

Romney continues to flip flop.

Mitt Romney was on This Week giving a lenghty interview to George Stephanopoulos.  I really want to like Mitt, but this interview painfully highlighted what an opourtunist Romney is.  In the Business world opourtunists are rewarded, and I really think that is fine.  In the political world we tend to want politicians who have personal integrity in their beliefs.  Ronmney was supportive of abortion and gay rights in past senatorial campaigns.  In my heart of hears, and this is a large assumption, Romney took a position during his Senate campaign that was against is personal beliefs.  He did this because of clear political opourtunities for himself.  Romney is genuinely honest about his position now, but he wasn’t then.  He did as the businessmen do, take advantage of opourtunities.  This is why Romney has recently joined the NRA.  Romney: I so wanted to support you in at least a minor way, but I may pull you off of my short list.

Here is a conservative point of view.

Posted by Paul in Christianity, Media, Mormonism, Politics, US Politics
11
Feb
2007

My 2008 Short List

Ok this list can change daily but here are my top 4 preferences for President in 08.

1. Barack Obama

2. John Edwards

3. Hillary Clinton

4. Chuck Hegel

5. Mitt Romney

You are probably asking, why is Mitt on the list.  Sure he is a cultural conservative, however he is not an Evangelical cultural conservative.  It would be very interesting to see how progressive a Mitt Romney presidency could be.

Chuck Hegel could leap frog Hillary Clinton on my list, but Chuck is still a long shot.  I think we have a very real chance that Hillary will be the next president, despite all the Bill Clinton naysayers.

It will be nice to have an actual leader in charge of the country.

Posted by Paul in Politics, US Politics