It is a sad day for our country. Same-sex marriage bans have been passed by idiotic hateful voters in California, Florida and Arizona.

I have to remain hopeful, but these people are likely reproducing and spreading their hate. Same-sex marriage bans are simply the result of Abrahamic androcentric villians having their way with individual rights.

Separate but equal is not as good as equality.

I voted for Obama. I agonized about it. In the end, the race was for President. If Palin were at the top of the Republican ticket, I would have voted for her in a heartbeat. I know I have been all over the map in this blog but I feel that any thinking voter would be torn over this election.

Quite simply, I voted for Obama as an act of affirmative action. The individual rights of blacks in the U.S. are not being protected by our government and invasive actions are required to right that grievous wrong. I voted for Obama for all of the black men and women unjustly imprisoned, and all of the black families victimized by this racist police state. I voted for Obama because of the Katrina tragedy and the despicable treatment of the citizens of New Orleans.

Next, I am in a Republican state and so my vote means less than if I weren’t. Also, on the ballot in my county, there were no women for President. I would have had to do a write in vote and I don’t believe that would have been counted with as much weight as a ticked box.

I voted for Obama, so I can say, “I told you so.” My vote gets me unlimited criticism privileges. I will be here to point out every fucked up thing Obama does. Every nail he drives into the coffin of capitalism, and every foreign war he perpetrates, I will remind you.

Finally, I want you all to remember when you are hating Sarah Palin, that Obama, in his very first opportunity to display his commitment to diversity and equality, chose a white man as his running mate. Obama is not a feminist and he doesn’t care about women’s rights.

If there is not a viable third party woman candidate in 2012, let me just say right now: PALIN 2012!

I’m voting for a woman for president. Why? Because the equality of women is the most important issue facing humanity. I’ll say it again, the equality of women is the MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE facing humanity.

Not the engineered financial “crisis,” not the occupation of Iraq, not racism, nothing else even comes close to gender equality. If you don’t believe that, ask yourself why. Why can’t you allow yourself to put women first?

Without equality for women, we have nothing.

Wouldn’t you love to vote for a woman for president? Well you can. I recently became aware of Cynthia McKinney’s run for president. I had heard of her before but I just hadn’t given her much attention. Rosa Clemente is her vice presidential running mate. They are running on the Green Party ticket. I disagree with them on almost every issue, except gender equality.

I hear you saying, “but if you don’t vote for one of the two major parties your vote is wasted.” That argument doesn’t hold up. Now, if I don’t vote at all one might argue that I am wasting my vote (I’m not certain of that argument either.) But voting for the “lesser of two evils” makes me sick. I can’t bring myself to do it.

McCain is obviously an evil bastard. He’s easy to dismiss.

But all of you Obama supporters need to wake the fuck up. If you are so gung-ho for Obama then start fighting his war right now. Get your ass over to Afghanistan and take on the Taliban and Al Quaeda. Or, are you a coward? Would you rather have somebody else fight your wars for you while you sit at home and have your deep political thoughts? You seem a lot like those neocons to me. Oh, and while you are getting your things in order before you go off to fight a war, please send any remaining money you have to Hank Paulson over at the Treasury. That’s the kind of change Obama votes for.

I think I understand the sentiment behind the slavish devotion to Obama. I voted for Bill Clinton in ’92 and ’96.I know that this country is fucked, and that W. was at the helm during our demise. And because of that, people will do anything to not have another Republican in the White House. 

I also get that Obama represents a historic first for our country. We have a huge scar left by slavery and racism and it is time we have a black president.

The problem is, that most people haven’t broken through the false left/right paradigm. Obama and McCain are two sides of the same coin. That is to say, big government will save the day. Well, I for one don’t believe the government can save anything or anybody.

Now, before I go any further, I am most likely going to vote for Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate for President. Because she is a woman and women are the MOST OPPRESSED GROUP OF PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. But, if McKinney were not in the race, I would vote for Palin (and McCain by extension.) Finally, if neither McKinney nor Palin were in the race, I would vote for Obama.

I am a firm believer in the idea that people who are historically victims of discrimination, e.g., women, blacks, homosexuals, deserve special consideration to even out our political system. 

These radical “affirmative action” principles would not be my choice in an ideal situation but they are what I call a “transitional” decision. Transitional in the same way that when France was occupied by the Nazis, life went on and political decisions had to be made, people elected, etc. I would compare the U.S. today to occupied France because we have been taken over by a rogue government hell-bent on driving our country into third world poverty.

I don’t believe affirmative action would be necessary in a perfect world, but we are far from perfect.

So, as Ayn Rand would describe the situation, my choice of McKinney is an example of “lifeboat ethics.” We find ourselves in a situation currently in the U.S. much like a person in a lifeboat with another person and only enough food for one to survive. No one can say what is right in such a situation. Survival becomes paramount.

I have absolutely no foreign policy experience.

The highest political office I have held is the governor of a small state.

Finally, I am the youngest governor ever elected in my state.

Who am I?

Bill Clinton.

Sarah Palin’s supposed lack of experience is a non-starter as an argument against her. Anyone who attempts to raise it as a valid criticism of her campaign may consider herself or himself repudiated and her or his protestations refuted.

Also, as a Democrat don’t you believe in Affirmative Action? What is affirmative action but the process of weighing other factors such as gender or race differently when one is looking to fill a position. How is Palin not a candidate for affirmative action?

For those who discount the value of a mother’s experience or the day-to-day executive experience that comes from being a housespouse, I suggest you check your gender-biases.

Why do we value the traditional “male” experience of primary breadwinner, CEO, political striver more than the traditional “female” life of domestic engineer?

I hope that it is an unquestioned belief, but I fear it is willful ignorance.

Obama didn’t choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate. I’d wager that 18 million voters disagree with his decision.

If he can’t even change the gender politics within his own party, why does anyone think he can unite the United States?

For those of you reading this who are thinking, “that’s preposterous, Obama isn’t sexist.” Ask yourself why gender equality is not an “issue” for you.

Why is the occupation of Iraq or the budget crises more important that the equality of women? I suggest that you are the one with your priorities askew.

Sure, some Republicans are hoping that you will vote for Palin simply because she is a woman. But I know better than that. You are saying, no, I will vote for someone on the issues and I would never vote for a woman who was pro-life. Obviously you weren’t going to vote for Palin in the first place.

But, I hope you remember everytime you see her face and you are filled with hate and anger, that what she really represents is Obama’s inability to put aside politics and ask a woman, Hillary, the woman with the most popular votes in the history of the U.S. to be his VP. Sarah Palin is not an insult because of who she is but what Obama isn’t. A feminist.

Obama is business as usual with an extra slap in the face to feminists and women everywhere.

I voted for Hillary. I might vote for Sarah Palin. But damn Palin makes it hard to like her. Anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage. Anti-Iranian nuculear (sic). But what she really is is just the flip side of the statist/collectivist coin. 

I disagreed with Hillary on almost every issue too. Therefore, in the interest of getting a woman President (albeit vice president) I will make the sacrifice.

Why? Because the absolute equality of women is THE most important issue facing humanity today. I firmly believe that we must put women in positions of power and that that alone will make a positive change in the world.

The ideal situation would have a pro-freedom candidate who supported individual rights. However, no such candidate exists, and so as is always the case in politics, one must weigh one’s options.

Sarah Palin, you have some despicable political views, and you’ve got my support.

Total number of women presidents: 0.

Total number of women Supreme Court Justices: 2.
(Out of 110 in total, or 1.8%.)

Total number of women in Congress: 246.
(88 are currently in office or approximately 16 percent.) 

Total number of women governors: 29.

Total number of women mayors: 127.
(262 cities in the U.S. with populations over 100,000.)

Shameful.

Women are the most oppressed people on the planet, bar none.

It is generally understood that those who support the “conservatives” expect them to uphold the system which has been camouflaged by the loose term of “the American way of life.” The moral treason of the “conservative” leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American  way of life was capitalism, that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

If the conservatives do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.

Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism. Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. The conflict between capitalism and altruism has been undercutting America from her start and today, has reached its climax. - Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

 If the “liberals” are afraid to identify their program by its proper name, if they advocate every specific step, measure, policy and principle of statism, but squirm and twist themselves into semantic pretzels with such euphemisms as the “Welfare State,” the “New Deal,” the “New Frontier,” they still preserve a semblance of logic, if not of morality: it is the logic of a con man who cannot afford to let his victims discover his purpose. Besides, the majority of those who are loosely identified by the term “liberals” are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They do not want to accept the full meaning of their goal; the want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery. So the evade the issue, for fear of discovering that their goal is evil. - Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal