And you won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore...

On Friday Sarah Palin announced that she would resign as the Alaskan Gov with 18 months to go in her term. Claiming that she did not want to be a "lame duck" Gov as she did not want to run for reelection and that the state is wasting too much money investigating/defending her ethics violations. In my mind I would say that if your feel like your state is using too much money to look at your ethics violations maybe you should be resigning for YOUR ETHICS VIOLATIONS. Glad to see that the only time she worries about "laws" or "ethics" is when it is costing her tax payers money instead of worrying about what she is doing. Some have stated that Palin may be resigning to begin a run for 2012 President race. If this is the case then it was a pretty silly way to do it. Politically she just showed that either a) she is easily pushed and can't maintain her Governor's job whilst campaigning or b) she just flat out is a bit of a quitter. While I do not like Palin I would not consider myself anti-Palin. While I think the media did tee off on her during her campaign as V.P. (a campaign that she should not have even be in in the first place) I do not feel like it was unfair. Many said that the media did not attack Obama and Biden as much but they were also not the fresh face on the campaign and had all their motives and backgrounds analyzed by the left the right and all around. The quote from Palin in this whole thing that bothers me is "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make (cite here)." The reason that it is honorable is that those people usually inform the press or at least their constituency what that higher calling is not just saying that "I can do more without the title." Those different standards revolve around the fact that most of Palin's moves seem irrational and borderline incompetent. Saying...

"I never believed that I nor anyone else needs a title to do this, to make a difference," she said. "I'm determined to take the right path for Alaska, even though it is unconventional and it's not so comfortable."(cite)

...tells me that she wants to be praised for the successes that follow here but ultimately not held responsible for failures. While I do not wish negatives to Palin I just wish people would step out of their political party mindsets and really look at her. The reason that the press piled on Palin is hypocrisy, it is always looked at through a microscope and is what brought so much attention to her. I think that the Republican party has some soul searching to do and I hope that they do it. I don't want a one party system in America but it is unfortunate that as opposed to the Republicans redefining themselves at all they are just hoping for a Democrat failure.

Intro to the most important topic of the day......ME!!

As I sit here and drink a Bud Light Lime (a solid drink if kept at a fairly frosty temp.) I think about how to introduce myself to the great reading public then I realize that not many will really our first post so I decided to skip the intro for the most part and make it very brief. Old school a/s/l. Age: 22, Sex: male, and Location: Kansas City area. Now that you know me we can dive right in. The reason for this blog is that my colleague and I have noticed that things in America are a little bit too extreme. We will be looking at situations (mostly political from my end of things) and looking at the problems that America is facing because of partisan views. While I am on the more liberal side my co-author is on the more conservative side, we both agree on one ideological plane that the the world of politics needs to pull to the middle and relearn how to compromise. At some point in our history the word compromise became a bad word in politics. While I understand that some views are immovable objects and some attitudes are unstoppable forces and compromise is just not there as an option. But this world of extreme views and partisan politics is just not in the best interest of the country and its people. Now a blurb from my other blog to expand on this and to share a bit more about my views....

Outside of specific issues there is one reason that I am a moderate. Because moderation in politics is what amounts to real change. And I do not mean the twang of a rod as it snaps to the left after being held to the right for 8 years. That is not real change. I am not against Obama by any means but the change we need is not necessarily change that is just change that goes against all that the Republicans have done in the past 8 years. Granted there are definitely policies and actions that need to be changed. Things like universal health care are things that divide the country but we do not see the middle ground. Is universal health care likely in America, probably not, in the next 4 years, no way. Can most of us agree that health care needs heavy reform quickly so that they right people are taken care the right way, I would imagine many would agree yes. Is any of this going to get resolved through the left and right yelling. No. Both sides need to slide towards the middle, it does not have to be drastic but a shift that will help to get things through. This is not one of those read between the lines for Republicans to stop delaying Democrat policies, and this is not to tell the Democrats to push as hard as they can with their control. This is a statement hoping that both sides can turn off partisan politics and a call to people not to change their views but to look at those views and see if having an extreme outlook is really the most practical.