Just like a think tank this blog is dedicated to open and critical thinking. Since only one person is editing, thinking and sharing their sporadic ramblings it makes much more sense to call it a "burble" than a "tank." Hence the The Think Burble is born. In the words of Sarah Palin, I love “reading everything I can get my hands on.” So with that, I begin my ramblings and hope to strike up a conversation or two...
Monday, November 17, 2008
Political Rumors Dispelled
Right before elections I wanted to do a blurb on political rumors floating around, but alass time has never been my friend (and I have a job). So, here is what little time allowed me and time premitting I'll throw some more around before the year is out.
Rumor #1 Terrorist will be dancing in the street if Barack Obama is elected as the next President of the United States. This rumor was circulating long before John McCain mentioned something to this effect in the second presidential election. However, when John McCain brought it up he was referring to Obama’s diplomacy policy when talking to nations that US relations have been less than friendly with. The Bush doctrine used to follow the same ideology as McCain’s (Don’t talk to anyone we don’t like). However, after years of worsening relations with countries like Venezuela, North Korea, & Iran even the Bush administration has started low level diplomatic relations with these countries to ease the tension. In sum McCain was saying that terrorists would favor Obama’s diplomatic policy that has already been accepted and put into practice by the Bush administration. So, what McCain was talking about in the second presidential election had very little to do with Obama being elected or terrorists doing the salsa. Understand that terrorists are a lot like delinquent teenagers, they lash out at the things they think are unfair in life and have little-to-no respect for others. The only exception is that terrorists are so beyond rational thinking that they are willing to kill to get attention, unlike a teenager who may just graffiti a public building or get into lots of fights. So, regardless of who is elected they will “dance” whenever they can and/or whenever they think we are doing something stupid. There is no doubt in my mind, when Bush leaves office they will “dance” regardless of who is elected to the presidency just because he is “the bad guy” right now.
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