House on Red Corner

After a very stressful, busy month, I think we are on a downhill slope for a little while. Nathan passed his 3 classes, my class is over (still waiting for my grade), EJ is over her cold, and we are joining the rest of my co-workers for a getaway this weekend to Cape Cod that my agency is treating us too. Yay! That means I get 4 and a half days off. Woohoo.

1. McCain voted against securing equal pay for women: The Lily Ledbetter Bill was named after Ms Ledbetter, who worked for Goodyear Tires. She worked there for 19 years, and by the time she left, she made $9,500 dollars less then the lowest-paid male supervisor. The Supreme Court threw out her complaint, saying she had waited too long to sue. The bill seeks to counteract the time limit.

2. MCain voted in favor of legislation to amend the definition of those eligible for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include the unborn — while voting against legislation to expand SCHIP’s coverage to low-income children and pregnant women at least six times.

3. He opposed legislation requiring that abstinence-only programs be medically accurate and based in science.

4. He voted to abolish funding for birth control and gynecological care for low-income women.

5. He said “I have stated time after time after time that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision.” But then, In the 2000 primary, he was asked what he would do if his daughter Meghan, then 15, became pregnant. McCain said it would be a “family decision.”

“The final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel,” McCain said, referring to himself and his wife, Cindy. When reporters suggested that this view made him, in fact, pro-choice, McCain became irritated. “I don’t think it is the pro-choice position to say that my daughter and my wife and I will discuss something that is a family matter that we have to decide.”

Hmm, hypocritical or just stupid? Let’s see…

6. In March 2007, the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney asked McCain whether grants for sex education in the United States include instructions about using contraceptives, or if they should abide by Bush’s abstinence-only policy.

After a pause, McCain responded, “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”

Nagourney followed up: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception? Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”

After another pause, McCain replied, “You’ve stumped me.”

How is it acceptable for the leader of the free world to prevent women from taking good care of their own health and helping take care of their families?

And it’s not just a ‘party line’- In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.” McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

And recently he volunteered his wife for a beauty pageant that often features contestants topless — and, occasionally, without any decency — at the Sturgis, South Dakota, motorcycle rally.

I don’t want a man like that leading my daughter into her future.

Apparently, it’s okay for old guys who need a little, um, assistance to get their prescriptions covered by the health insurance companies, but its not okay for young women to receive the same benefits. Interesting when the double standards are reinforced, dontcha think?

plus this guy’s ideas for solving our problems are “Bomb bomb bomb” or “drill drill drill” let’s elect someone with more intelligence and capacity for critical thought and constructive action.

But hey, it’s really up to you- a candidate who listens to the electorate and that demonstrates a capacity to guide the country into the new world as it reshuffles the stack or a candidate with a long standing grudge and quite a bit of a temper that refuses to budge from taking his own counsel on all matters; gosh after the last eight years you’d think that this would be an easy choice.

Posted by Fifth Dimension at 9:38 AM

First I spilled coffee down my shirt twice. Than, in order to get myself together a bit, I sat on a bench outside - in a wet spot. Great. Pregnancy does this to people.

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After 12 hours in a dark room and 3 more to go, whenever a neurologist says “gait velocity” I hear “gay philosophy”. As in :”a gay philiosphy gain results in better quality of life.”