Recently Democracy Waning got an e-mail that asked some very interesting questions. Why is Barack Obama behind such a seriously flawed team like McCain/ Palin?

They represent the failed policies of the last 8 years and openly intend to extend those policies for the next 4 years if they get elected. There is no reason why the American electorate would prefer them except race.

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he proposed to?

What if Obama were the candidate who discarded his first wife? What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5? What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker, and a Constitutional Scholar?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? So, why are the numbers as close as they are? News Flash - Obama is...a Black Man. This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes, and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Let's say You are The Boss... which team would you hire, with America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc.? Educational Background: Team A: Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations. Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna **** Laude University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science. Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Or: Team B: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899 Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism > Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism (Team A: Obama/Biden - Team B: McCain/Palin) Which team would you hire to lead the Nation,...really?

PS: Not that it should be a legitimate issue about the candidates,...but just think...what if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter? What do you think the other side would be saying?...

Democracy Waning OUt!

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Democracy Waning has been watching the Republicans in St Paul and …..

It’s the second day of the Republican Convention. They had to curtail their festivities on Monday because of the hurricane in the gulf.

Yes hurricane Gustav reminded Americans of the sorrowful reaction to hurricane Katrina by the current Republican administration and the republican leadership didn’t want to be seen on split screen TV telling the world of their accomplishments while another group of poor people drowned in N.O. But since the hurricane was not as severe as thought and since there were too many republicans with too much time and too few un supervised public rest rooms in St. Paul they thought they would rather get back to crowning McCain as the heir apparent.

Now with the weather news they have got an unwanted forecast from their Vice President candidate.Yup, Sarah Palin’s daughter is with child.

She has been bumping uglies with a man who is a self proclaimed “Northern Redneck”. And I’m sure they will have an interesting baby. 

The redneck 18 years old and the daughter 17 years old will avoid the questions of statutory rape by getting married in Dec.

Now a young girl getting pregnant is not the story except for the comic relief.( Like when she carried a baby to block the baby she was carrying) The story here is that Sarah Palins has tried to deny sex education for teens. She believes that only abstinence works.

Sarah doesn’t believe in giving out birth control or condoms only in putting her foot down holding her breath and demanding that teens abstain from having sex.

No family planning or education for kids. Well Mrs. Palin, hows that working out for you?

Since your way of education doesn’t have any secondary plan no back-up it always leads to an un-wanted pregnancy. The other part of this story is that she, Mrs. Palin still doesn’t get it. This out come, on which she now  has a front row seat, has had no effect on her beliefs in abstinence . She still thinks you only have to yell it louder or more often to make abstinence work. She is unable to modify her views even in the face of the changing situation in her family. This doesn’t bode well for her leadership ability.

How can she change America when she can’t change herself.?

Democracy Waning thinks: It’s ok if she wants to “shot gun” her kid and some other horney red neck smuck into premature matrimony and parenthood. But she if she gets the chance, will she do the same thing to your kids?

Peace Out!

Democracy Waning has been thinking... We as a country have too many ties to middle east oil. We need to control our own oil future and we need to do it now. There is a way for us to become energy independent while sticking it to OPEC.

We have to think in a new way about our oil .Think outside the box.

America has lots of oil reserves, off our coast, in Alaska and shale oil deposits in the Northwest.

Oil companies are willing to dig, drill and squeeze those oil reserves out and then sell them on the open market. We as Americans get some tax breaks or oil royalties from the sale of that oil but we have to buy back our own oil at world market prices. Hey its our oil! Why should we only get a share when America should get the lion's share? Why can't we develop those oil fields for us and by us (FUBU) just like the famous international company that started with hats and people from the hood. Its our oil lets use it for us instead of against us.



I suggest that America begin to develop in its own interest. There are oil companies who could be hired to drill the oil refine it and distribute it to America.

Once the oil is refined I suggest that we use our resources to fuel us. Hospitals, emergency vehicles, schools, municipal vehicles the poor, and our military all subsidized by our own oil. We could give it to them at a rate that pays for the development and distribution. certainly under a dollar a gallon price.

Now here is the best part. when we fuel all these interest we decrease the demand for world oil. Opec, Mexico , Venezuela. All will have a glut of oli that they cant sell at $100.00 dollars a barrel . The can't eat Oil! Their prices will have to drop. The rest of the world benefits and we are no longer under the cartel's thumb for energy. By doing this we take control of our supply and demand. No more war for oil.

The oil companies will vie for the chance to dig Americas fuel. They all know there is still lots money to be made in this venture and by regulating them we can protect against oil spills and still protect our environment.

The money we save on foreign oil can also help us to begin to develop our way out of fossil fuels. With my plan America can take control of it's own destiny again.

Democracy Waning says" let them eat Oil!!"

Peace Out!

The Myth of the Maverick


Many in the news ask why isn’t Obama more ahead of John McCain? Polls show them in a neck and neck race even up to August.

Democracy Waning has an answer.

Lots of people say we don’t know Barack but we know John McCain. Well I think that most people don’t know McCain. I believe there are quite a few” Low information Voters”(LIVs) who don’t really know anything and don’t really want to find out. They simply take things for granted and then take those things to heart.

John McCain calls himself a “Maverick.” Well, what is a Maverick? The dictionary says the word comes from the proper name of Samuel Maverick a pioneer in the 1870s who did not brand his calves. Also in that same spirit it calls maverick a man who goes against his party or group.

Is John McCain a “Maverick?”

Well, at first blush the LIVs think John McCain may be one. He did go against his party in 2000 but then the party wouldn’t pick him as their candidate. But in 2008 John McCain has to re-make himself to the party to win. So he changed his maverick ways and became one of the republican parties rank and file.

McCain has voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time so far in 2008, but he still calls himself a maverick.

He has changed his mind about core values over 27 times including his flip flops on tax cuts, global warming and his own bill on border security, which he no longer backs.

Remember when he called Fallwell, Robertson and others of that ilk “agents of religious intolerance”. But then he went to Bob Jones University, the home of intolerance to announce his candidacy.

John McCain says that he can track down Osama Bin Laden and that he knows how to win a war. It’s his war experience that he will use against our enemies.

Now that sounds really believable to the LIVs, but Has anyone asked John “what is you history in tracking down wanted men?” Has John McCain ever shown up with a wanted felon in tow? Has he ever been on “Dog the Bounty Hunter or Most Wanted or Cops”? No. And his ability to win the war is about as likely.

Has John McCain ever been on the winning side of a war?

He was last in his class at the naval academy. Do they give a winners trophy or even a participation ribbon for that?

He spent the last five years of the Vietnam War in prison, on the bench.

Where does he get his ability to win when he has never stood in the winners circle?

John McCain has a beautiful trophy wife now with her he’s a winner but what did he have to do to his first wife to get Cindy?

When McCain returned from Vietnam his wife Carol was not the same young model he had said good-bye to. She had been in a terrible car crash and after learning to walk again and gaining weight she was no longer the trophy wife he had left behind.

John McCain dated Cindy Hensley for 8 months before he was divorced. H e asked her to marry him and got a marriage license before his first marriage was over.

Democracy Waning wants to know is this the kind of values you LIVs expect from your Senator or President?