First, the GOP candidates for president are just nuts (Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul). You've got Romney, a fairly "centrist" republican who is trying to appear as "conservative" as he can be and failing - he's the candidate the GOP doesn't want. You've got Santorum, a hard-core social conservative who basically thinks women belong in the kitchen making sandwiches. Gingrich is obviously old school, cheated on both his wives, and says he's not a part of the establishment, even though he actually created the current back-stabbing conditions in American politics (and who was ousted from power by his own party b/c of corruption). And then there's Ron Paul, the isolationist - who has more views I agree with than any of the GOP candidates - and more than I agree with Obama.
Needless to say, I'm not a fan of any of them. I'm actually going to write in Scott Adams (yes, of Dilbert fame).
We're still at war in Afghanistan, and bombing several other countries via unmanned drone. We're still imprisoning hundreds of "terrorists" (without enough evidence to even have a trial to see if they're worth holding). We've killed an American via a targeted drone strike, and Obama's justice department justifies it by saying that "due process doesn't mean judicial process." Nobody from the Bush administration has been prosecuted for war crimes/torture, nobody from Wall Street has been charged with anything due to the financial collapse, no real reform has been made in either situation - in fact Obama has gone after whistle blowers more vigorously than all other administrations beforehand, he's expanded executive power more then W did, etc. etc. etc.
Needless to say I'm not happy.
I am happy I've found this comic strip, here's an example of their work. It's spot-on and absolutely hilarious.
You've got the media talking about nothing but the political races, and completely ignoring actual policy debates.
For example, Iran. Everyone from Obama to the GOP candidates are trying to sound tough on Iran, completely and whole-heartedly supporting Israel's desire to bomb Iran. Yet when actually pressed (though nobody ever does), people in the know agree that there is no evidence that Iran is actually pursuing nuclear weapons. Nobody talks about the fact that Iran actually had signed an agreement to give up the enrichment program - and the US decided to just go ahead with sanctions instead.
And the media just goes along with the party line - both parties in fact, and repeats the same B.S. - which is what led us into Iraq.
It's disgusting.
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