Ann Coulter

Let us take a minute out of the present political situations- the impending immigration vote, the War in Iraq, the fired prosecutors- and look at one woman. A woman who, in my opinion, may just be the scum of the Earth. I am talking about none other than the woman who got rich off of making liberals angry, Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter has said some very incredible things in the past. Things such as: "...all terrorists are Muslims" and "rag head talks tough, rag head dies". We haven't heard from her in a little while. I don't know why- she may be writing another disgusting book, or she may be hiding in her mansion. But she is at it again!

Monday, she blatantly said that if she was going to talk about John Edwards again, she would say that she wished he would be killed in a terrorist assassination. The amount of hatred this woman spews out of her mouth is amazing. She degrades Muslims, women, blacks...in fact, the only people she does not say hateful things about are white males.

This is what America's core problem is. People like Coulter (such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly) who use their fame not to help America, but to divide it. By dividing America, they can gain more fame and, of course, money. By saying the most hateful things they can think of, they keep people coming back for more and, for some reason, it works. But in doing so, they are hurting America.

The main priority we have as thinkers is not to see how much money we can put in our bank accounts, but to figure out how to make America better. To make America better, we must unify. Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, along with Independents and Third-Wayers- everyone needs to take each other, arm in arm, and forge a path to a better America. One where the People are truly reflected by who they vote for. One where people listen to Barack Obama's politics and not Ann Coulter's. One where lobbyists are nowhere near Washington. One where everybody prospers, not just the Americans that can afford to.

Ann Coulter is much more than a woman (or much less than a human, depending on how you look at things). She is not just a revolting, polarizing figure. She is the epitome of what is wrong in America, the perfect image that illustrates the problems we face in America today. In order for America to move forward, she must be defeated. No longer can we listen to her, or buy her books, or go to her speeches. She can not be given any more fuel to her already roaring fire of hate and negativity. We, Mission: Democracy, and every other American out there, must stop her from continuining her path of destruction.

Take care everyone. And please, give a moment of your time, and go to BarackObama.com. Donate to his campaign, with even just $10. Make his campaign of hope the true image of America.

Bob Witmer

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Note- Sorry for the huge delay in this post, guys. I attended a nationals event for speech and debate in Wichita, Kansas for the past week. From here on out, I should be able to write one every other day, and sometimes every day, and sometimes even more than one a day. So, keep checking back. Now, onto the news...

This weekend has been deadly for our troops in Iraq. Twelve of the bravest men and women in America were killed on Saturday, ten of these deaths happening in Baghdad. The death toll for American troops is now 3560.

There seemed to be some reconciliation going on, though. This morning, peace talks between warring Shiite and Sunni tribes were going on in a Baghdad hotel called the Mansour Hotel. They met in the hotel lobby and the tribal sheikhs, along with some of their warriors and assistants, were discussing ways to end the violence. Unfortunately, a suicide bomber blew himself and the seven sheikhs, along with atleast five others, after targetting the hotel and detonating his bombs once he got there. Excluding the tribal warriors and sheikhs, an Iraqi journalist and civilians were killed and the hotel was absolutely gutted.

Yet our "fearless" leader, George Dubya, has still not gotten us any closer to leaving Iraq. Look, let's be realistic here. Do you really, truly believe, that we will ever reach stability in Iraq? Not us. Not America. It can not happen. The only way stability will ever be reached in Iraq is if Iraqis reach it. And, right now, that doesn't seem to even be plausible. Tribes were negotiationg nonviolent ways to resolve matters in Iraq, yet look what happened to them! They were all killed. They were killed for trying to bring stability to Iraq. Stability will not be a word associated with Iraq until America leaves and years of a revolution have gone by.

Revolution. In the late 1700's, America went through one. We should all know the story, as long as you paid even the slightest bit of attention in American History classes- Britain controlled us, we didn't like it, "No Taxation Without Representation", the Olive Branch Petition, yadda yadda yadda. What happened? Americans went through an American Revolution to take over what was theirs. We didn't have foreign soldiers helping us. We didn't have hundreds of thousands of French soldiers showing up in our villages and fighting for us. All we had was French aid- some money, some weapons, and a lot of encouragment. But Americans fought for it, and Americans lost their lives. The only way a revolution can be properly waged is if the revolutionaries make the sacrifices. The only way to achieve a Republic is for the citizens to fight for it. You can not have an outside force fight your revolution and then give you a Republic; that is plainly not how things work. Yet, right now, we are trying to do that in Iraq.

We need to leave Iraq. If we truly want that nation to have any chance for peace and stability, we need to allow Iraq to be Iraq. We need to allow a year or four of a violent revolution to take place, in order for stability to be reached. We will never have enough troops in Iraq to create stability, because America can not do it. Iraq needs to do it. Iraqi civilians need to fight for it.

In other news...

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be coming out on July 21. I don't know about you, but I am pretty psyched for that. I know, I know, it isn't the usual political news. But come on! It is Harry Potter. This book, though it may not seem it, does have a lot of political references in it. But, I am not going to make it political- I just love the series. The book will answer a lot of questions that us fans have- is Dumbledore really dead?, where are Snape's allegiances?, what are the other horcruxes?, what were Harry's parents' professions?, who will die (atleast two main characters)?, etc. etc. Any ideas? Email me your ideas!

Take care,

Bob Wit

Democrats Debate

Well, before I go any further, allow me to make sure that I apologize for my schedule inaccuracy. I said that the Republicans were going to debate on Monday...today is Tuesday, and they are debating right now. I was wrong. Sorry...and thank you to all of you who emailed me my mistake. Good job, guys! That is what this movement is about!

Sunday was a pretty good night I think. It really was nothing surprising, not at all actually.

My problems with the debate:

1. Too much time spent on front runners (Obama, Clinton, Edwards). I love Obama, but come on! Debates are supposed to be a way to see all the candidates and make a good choice. What we got was about an hour total with the frontrunners and a half hour total with the lower teir candidates. Exaggeration? Yes....but not much!
2. Gov. Bill Richardson. If Barack Obama was not a Democrat, I would have to say that Richardson would be my pick for the Democrat candidacy. But Sunday his performance was absolutely horrid. I was very dissapointed...his answers to the questions seemed very off topic. Some damage control will be needed if he has ANY chance of picking up the candidacy.
3. The questions! Let's get some more hard hitting questions, huh? How about the questions about education? Come on! I enjoyed the Darfur questions and the few abortion and health care ones, but I think we all know each one of their Iraq policies, so why keep pounding it in?

I enjoyed it, I really did. Yet, those three things really annoyed me. I mean, these debates are supposed to be insights to every candidate, aren't they? Exactly. Yet, some spots really were very good. Spots like...

1. Barack Obama's comeback to the Edwards' criticism on Iraq. Edwards criticized Obama for casting his "nay" vote silently to the Iraq Funding Bill. Obama fired back, saying that Edwards was "four and a half years late" on leadership in this issue. I thought it was great. For all of you that do not know, Obama was against the war from the start.
2. The question about Bill Clinton. It was phrased something like "How would you utilize Bill Clinton in your administration". It was asked to the majority of the candidates. The consensus seemed to be that he would be an ambassador to a foreign nation.
3. Hillary Clinton, when she called Bill her "dear husband".
4. The "first one hundred days" question. One thing I have not heard any president speak about yet is their first one hundred days.

The winner? Hmm...that is hard to say. I think that my man, Barack Obama, did very well. I think, I hope for the future of this country, that his name will move up in the polls after this debate. But the winner? The winner would be Joe Biden. He was forceful, spoke about the issues...he really knew what he was doing. Good job, Senator. Good job.

....you still don't beat Barack.

Debates and Debates

When you watch a presidential debate, it does not have that much of an impact on the way you will vote. You aren't going to suddenly say: "OH MY GOD!" after one of the debaters answers a question. More or less, the debates are more about seeing how 'presidential' someone looks, not about the issues.

Within the next 72 hours, eighteen men and women will have debated each other.

That is right, folks! Tomorrow is the Democrats, and the next day is the Republicans.

On Sunday, the Democrats will be debating each other. What does this mean? Well, we will see three well known Democrats, in the middle of the stage, all vying for an up on the others. The other five will be at their sides, trying to burst on the scene somehow. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards will steal the show. Last time, Obama "won" the debate, from the viewers' perspective. I wouldn't know- I fell asleep during the debate. The only exciting part came from the craziest of them all, Mike Gravel, at the last couple minutes. He challenged Obama, and Obama made him look like...well, a fool. Other than that, the only part that got my attention was when Dennis Kucinich's impeachment charges were brought up. The proctor asked which Democrats would be willing to back Kucinich's impeachment charges. Not one of them raised their hands. At this point in time, there are only four Democrats with a chance of winning the nomination- Obama, Clinton, and Edwards, with Gore (who isn't even running). These debates are supposed to be about reaching the American People and giving them some insight on the options they can choose from. So, if these debates are used to their full potential, hopefully one of these smaller, yet possible, Democrats can make an impact (such as Gov. Bill Richardson).

The Republican debate was even more of a laugh than the Democrats'. I apologize, but I think that the Republicans' debate was just a fiasco. One Republican tried to make an impact. Imagine this- he told the truth. Ron Paul, a Republican like no other, spoke of why we were attacked on September 11. He said that we caused it because of how militaristic we are against many other foreign nations. Funny enough, everyone on that stage attacked him for telling the TRUTH, along with some boos from the audience. This is why I don't watch the Republicans- they lie, and then if someone is good enough to tell the truth to the People, they try to distance themselves from that person. I don't like the two party system that we use in America, and the Democrats aren't my favorite people either, but watching Ron Paul get bullied on that stage by the likes of Rudy Guiliani...well, that just made me mad.

Right now, there are very few candidates that have a chance at getting their party's nomination, and each one has their own problems. On the Democratic end we have John Edwards, who was a part of the losing team in 2004 and who got into DC by being a patent lawyer; Hillary Clinton, whose time in DC has led to corruption and who never shows the slightest bit of emotion; and Barack Obama, whose only real flaw, his inexperience, is more of a blessing to me- that, and the attacks from Fox News he endures every day. On the Republican side we have Rudy Guiliani, whose only experience is in local government, giving him less experience than Obama; Mitt Romney, who will find it difficult to relate to Americans given his over $200 million dollar worth; and John McCain, who seems to be slipping into insanity (while singing "Bomb Bomb Iran") and who lost to GEORGE BUSH in 2000.

These debates will do nothing. I will watch them, though, in the hopes that Barack Obama gains more ground on Hillary and that Ron Paul lashes back at every Republican on that stage. And, of course, to watch my favorite news anchor, Wolf Blitzer, be the proctor.