A Liberal In The Midst

Today is not one of those days. I just left the X-Men movie and plan to write a short blog on my experience. This posting to my blog is in regards to how I spent my morning with a some wonderful people in Mississippi. This morning I spent my time discussing social media and politics. In a nut shell, I encourage the group to become bloggers, to comment on blogs and news articles, and to still write letters to newspapers and magazines. I also warned users of being idiots on the internet via twitter, Facebook, etc.... Once upon a time there was anonymity on the web, those days are gone. If you would not do something in person do not do it on the web. After the discussion panel this morning, I realized I had not touched on the organizing powers of the internet. Although, I as a MoveOn.org RC have not been able to get people mobilized via the internet as of yet, I still have hope. I have hope because of what happened in Philadelphia, PA in 1997. Prior to Twitter and Facebook a mil...

This morning, I find myself having to work extra hard to find anger inside of me. My FB buddies had me laughing so hard I was crying. They were joking about the absurdity of our responses or lack of responses to serious issues. One issue that has my attention is Libya. We have involved ourselves in yet another foreign military matter. Gas is already high here in the states. Our bombing Libya will not lower the price I pay at the pump. Why are we bombing Libya? Why are we in Libya? I am not afraid to say I am against our bombing Libya. If we need to help the people in Libya so badly then we need to do the same for the other African countries. There are some who say to me I should say nothing for it would not look good on President Obama. So the love what?!?!! Spending money to bomb a foreign nation that has not attack us does not look good fiscally. In fact it looks downright terrible given we are looking at cuts to several domestic spending programs. I do not have a ph.d....

The basis of my blog is that I am a mad woman from Mississippi. Given that is my basis please do not allow this post to shock you. I am writing from a view of complete and disgust filled anger. My anger stems from the reactions in America to the revolution in Egypt from the Left and the Right political groups. I am so completely amazed that we in America continue to tout our superiority over the rest of the world when we know nothing about the people around the world. Pull any Egyptian or Iraqi off the street and he/she can tell you more about the American people than we can about either Egypt or Iraq. It is sad that we as Americans have continued to support despot leaders around the world out of fear that our country would fall if we actually supported the people of those countries. Yesterday, I watched U.S. leader after leader evade giving full support to the Egyptian people. I watched the television thinking WTL??!!!??? Sen. John McCain came out with a massive load of BS ab...