Voting is neither a right nor a freedom, it is a RESPONSIBILITY!Trust me when I say I do NOT like how the current administration is running this country, but, I call things the way I see them.Ok now, with that said, I am not one to usually get into politics (Ok, that's a fib, but I usually leave it in blogs and not bulletins) and such, but, am I alone here when
hypocrisy starts running rampant? This is
not a Republican vs. Democrat thing, I vote for who will best serve MY ideals, not on a bunch of crap stirred up by one party or the other and enflamed by the MEDIA. I vote my mind, NOT what the MEDIA tells me to, unlike so many lemmings today.
What am I talking about? The elections coming up and all the lies and BULLSHIT. This Foley thing has gotten on my nerves.
What he did was WRONG. What he did should have gotten him censured and thrown out of Congress. What he did NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED and IF he broke some laws he needs to go to JAIL.What the MEDIA is doing should get all them fined. How about reporting the WHOLE story?
Real Headlines: "This is an American Travesty!" "Everyone knew and no one did anything", "Kick out all the Republicans!"I guarantee you that a LOT of Democrats knew too. And they sat on it for the right time to cause the most MEDIA attention. And they got it. Aren't THEY just as responsible for anything that happened after they knew and did nothing until the time they could spin it? And reports have it that the MEDIA had the info as far back as 2-3 years ago!
But, may I remind the MEDIA of one little name? Gerry Studds. Anyone remember him? No, let me remind you then;In 1983 Studds was a central figure in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with minors – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page who was of the age of legal consent, according to state law at the time. The relationship was consensual, but presented ethical concerns relating to working relationships with subordinates.
During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents." Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay." He acknowledged that it had been inappropriate to engage in a relationship with a subordinate, and said his actions represented "a very serious error in judgment."Studds went on to be re-elected 5 more times after the censure.As you listen to this MEDIA hype, why don't we hear flashbacks to the ORIGINAL page scandal?
I remind all my friends to
VOTE THE ISSUES and NOT THE MEDIA HYPE! If the man or woman best serves to represent you, vote for them, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Independent!
Read another article on voting here: LostCherry Blog by Dave: Apathetic and Ignorant in the U.S.A. 
