Personally Conservative and Socially Liberal: The Blair War Interview

I have never felt smarter from watching comedy! This is an absolutely amazingly insightful interview from Jon Stewart. Take a look!

It’s amazing we have to look overseas to get a politician to come and talk to us about politics.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=185185&title=tony-blair-pt.-1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=185186&title=tony-blair-pt.-2

2008 Presidential Candidates

Democratic Candidates

Joe Biden - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/3/08)
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Wikipeida Conservapedia
Chris Dodd - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/3/08)
John Edwards - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/30/08)
Mike Gravel - Wikipeida Conservapedia
Dennis Kucinich - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/24/08)
Barack Obama - Wikipeida Conservapedia
Bill Richardson - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/9/08)

Republican Candidates

Sam Brownback - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 10/19/07)
Rudy Giuliani - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/30/08)
Mike Huckabee - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 3/4/08)
Duncan Hunter - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/19/08)
John McCain - Wikipeida Conservapedia
Ron Paul - Wikipeida Conservapedia
Mitt Romney - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 2/7/08)
Tom Tancredo - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 12/20/08)
Fred Thompson - Wikipeida Conservapedia (Dropped Out 1/22/08)

About the links:
Each item has 3 links, the candidates (or his committee's) own site, their Wikipedia entry, and Conservapedia entry. The difference between the Wiki and Conserva pedias is that wiki is editable, by anyone on the internet, moderated, and claims to be unbiased, while Conserva is not editable and purposefully biased.

Conservapedia was created because it accuses Wikipeida of having a liberal biased. There could be some truth to this as most internet users are of a younger age bracket (which is stereotypically more liberal than older age brackets). However, it does seem strange that a problem could arise from a site that is editable. I decided to include links to Conservapedia simply because it is nonetheless a source, but it should be understood it is VERY biased.

Regardless, the total content of the sources in this list have obviously been biased to the right. I consider the best sources to be the candidates own maintained site and Wikipedia. Only visit Conservapedia if you are interested in that viewpoint.

If anyone has a "Liberalapedia" link please let me know.

About the Title

It's how I would identify myself politically. Ultimately I would not consider myself either Liberal or Conservative. Although I know, politics being what they are, I agree more with the Liberal agenda. However, if political agendas were designed to only run your own life, I would immediately consider myself Conservative.

The best example I can give is to consider the abortion issue. I am pro-choice. However, if I put in this situation myself I would fight to not let it happen (although ultimately I know it is not my decision). I believe strongly that people should have the liberty to make decisions on how to live their own life, because frankly their shit is not my shit. I also strongly believe that no matter how open minded anyone could possibly be, without divine intervention, there is no way anyone could possibly understand what another person's reason is for making any decision. Thus personally I am conservative, because this is how I find things are kosher in my world. However, my views on how society should be run fall closest to the Liberal way of thinking.

Why have a blog?

I don't honestly believe my own politics (the conservative part) are worth imposing onto others. So why have a political blog? Well I have some intent with this blog. Its about a year until the next election and I do plan on doing more research on the candidates than I have previously. If nothing else I figured a blog would be a good place to store information I gather. Currently I do not have any reservations of who I plan on voting for, Republican or Democrat.

That doesn't really answer the question though as I do intend on posting other things than information gathered on candidates. I am also interested not in expressing my politics, but my opinion of politics. Eventually, I'm sure actually political issues will seep in, but I intend to keep that as neutral as possible. We'll see how that works out. ;)

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