Joe Biden: Thank You For Being A Real Person

Out of all four candidates Joe Biden is the only one who seems like he would be really happy if someone gave him the green light to start telling the American people the truth.  At one point in the past year my idealistic self thought that a politician could tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth and that would set us free. I have come to learn that things are far more complex than that. I realize now from all the feedback I get about politics, especially with my own friends and family, that people do not notice how influenced they are by television and Main Stream Media. They are not ready to wake up. They do not know that they need to question everything, every single thing, and the source of that news. We need to stop categorizing and stereotyping people into secs. There is no purpose served by discounting and entire group of people. Each person should be judged on their individual merits and opinions. 

It was impressive that Martha Raddatz was able to ask for serious answers on subjects such as Iran and challenge the candidates to be specific about their policies. 
Here is just the closing portion of the topic of Iran:

RYAN: A nuclear-armed Iran which triggers a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. This is the world's largest sponsor of -- of terrorism. They've dedicated themselves...
(CROSSTALK)
RYAN: ... to wiping an entire country off the map. They call us the Great Satan. And if they get nuclear weapons, other people in the neighborhood will pursue their nuclear weapons, as well.
RADDATZ: Vice President Biden?
RYAN: We can't live with that.
BIDEN: War should always be the absolute last resort. That's why these crippling sanctions, which Bibi Netanyahu says we should continue, which -- if I'm not mistaken -- Governor Romney says we -- we should continue. I may be mistaken. He changes his mind so often, I could be wrong.
But the fact of the matter is, he says they're working. And the fact is that they are being crippled by them. And we've made it clear, big nations can't bluff. This president doesn't bluff.

I've read that over a 100 thousand children will die from the sanctions we have put on Iran. Their money is worth next to nothing. When certain foods, such as Chicken, are brought in those things are so scarce it nearly causes riots. Or does. It is hard to know exactly because our media is downplaying the severity of how we treat Iran. If they call us the great Satan it is because we bombed the shit out of the 2 closest countries to them, Afghanistan and Iraq. They know better than we do what beautiful places those were before we blew them up in the name of an act of terrorism that had nothing to do with those people. That's like saying we should have bombed Washington D.C. because Timothy McVeigh succeeding in doing what he planned. There is no correlation between the peoples of the world and their powerful governments.

We need to start treating insanity and extreme violent viewpoints as just that, extreme. We don't because we have been brainwashed in American to fear our neighbors. In America we believe everyone has the potential to really hurt you. I deem that they do not. I do believe that most violent rhetoric and actions are in reaction to a violent childhood or one or more traumatic experiences. We can't get rid of those ideologies with more violence. We can only progress forward if we accept that all the peoples of the world are the working class, and we all want fairness and freedom. When those freedoms are threatened it becomes easier to turn otherwise vibrant smart people into terrorists. But even still there are those among us that when faced with extreme tragedy fight harder for peace instead of react violently.

I wasn't expecting a lot of the topics they discussed to be covered well. Biden delivered, as far as intelligent answers and being genuine.
He also said the one thing people were waiting to hear from Obama all last Wednesday.

BIDEN: With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey.
RADDATZ: And why is that so?
BIDEN: Because not a single thing he said is accurate. First of all...
RADDATZ: Be specific.
BIDEN: I will be very specific.

Everyone wishes more politicians would call out the lies and hyperbole we are being fed. As someone who is very passionate. It is nice to see another passionate person actually involved in politics. Many are being critical now of Biden's laughter and body language which to me were the most appealing. I am one to always analyze other peoples body language, even just in casual situations. In a Presidential debate, you can bet I consider it a factor. We shouldn't be judging leaders of the world based on body language or their personalities but the policies they are going to, or have enacted.

The Radical Right (which has completely taken over the Republican Party) already started forming their narrative about Biden's personality and body language just minutes into the debate, especially once it was obvious Biden was doing well. But I don't think anyone who was actually watching that debate felt that Paul Ryan was winning at any point, unless you already believe those lies. He came off as smug and lacking answers. He repeated all the GOP talking points perfectly. Without as much the outright lying Romney took part in, it is evident that the GOP platform does nothing to help any of the lower classes. There was a lot of rhetoric from Ryan about how they care about the middle class and how they will be tough on foreign policy and pass lots of cuts to the bloated government. But haven't we all heard that before? There were no real solutions presented. I am one to not wholeheartedly believe in the Democratic Platform for many reasons. At the very least it moves towards the future we want instead of away from it. 

It still surprises me that no one ever mentions the poor or all the people actually homeless or starving in America. The big 2 parties never talk about it. The big 6 that own Main Stream Media never talk about it. That does not make those American's pain any less real. You can pretend all you like that this is the greatest country on earth but we certainly have killed a lot of people in war and let a lot of our own suffer and starve without medical coverage for long enough. I hope someday that people like me will fight hard enough that this will be the greatest country the world has ever seen, but I won't hold my breathe. If we truly were the keepers of peace and harmony people would strive to be like us, instead of fear us.

People who already love Paul Ryan think he gave an outstanding performance. He was just as poised, polished, and ripped as they want him to be. He had the audacity to try and rattle the vice president with his reference to a horrific car accident to make the point that Mitt Romney helped that family. Biden was not rattled and spoke with sincerity about his experience of losing his wife and infant daughter in a car accident in his early days of the Senate. he often speaks of that tragedy as having helped him show people that you can survive those hardest things in life and thrive.

And for those of you that want to know why I STILL, after all my research, don't believe both parties are "exactly the same", There is this:

BIDEN: ...My friend recently in a speech in Washington said "30 percent of the American people are takers." These people are my mom and dad -- the people I grew up with, my neighbors. They pay more effective tax than Governor Romney pays in his federal income tax. They are elderly people who in fact are living off of Social Security. They are veterans and people fighting in Afghanistan right now who are, quote, "not paying any tax."

I've had it up to here with this notion that 47 percent -- it's about time they take some responsibility here. And instead of signing pledges to Grover Norquist not to ask the wealthiest among us to contribute to bring back the middle class, they should be signing a pledge saying to the middle class we're going to level the playing field; we're going to give you a fair shot again; we are going to not repeat the mistakes we made in the past by having a different set of rules for Wall Street and Main Street, making sure that we continue to hemorrhage these tax cuts for the super wealthy.

BIDEN: They're pushing the continuation of a tax cut that will give an additional $500 billion in tax cuts to 120,000 families. And they're holding hostage the middle class tax cut because they say we won't pass -- we won't continue the middle class tax cut unless you give the tax cut for the super wealthy.

It's about time they take some responsibility.

If Willard wins this election with a Republican majority in congress things will get worse. He has made it obvious that he intends to cut programs for the poor and tax cuts that help the middle class, such as the child tax credit, and the mortgage tax credit. While he is raising our taxes he will be cutting the tax rates for the .01%. He also will raise military spending and claims the Obama Administration is weak in regards to Iran, even though we are killing civilians and children all over the middle east already. He also wants to reverse the rights of women, to impose his religious beliefs on others. All of these things are public common knowledge. They are the platform of the current Republican Party, despite that everything he said last Wednesday was to the contrary. All politicians may have to lie but not all lies are cut from the same cloth. Just like not all people are cut from the same cloth. It serves no purpose to throw up our hands and stalk away chanting the "all the same" mantra. We will make no progress as long as we believe we are powerless.

We will not get to the change we want through the election of a President. To believe that is naive at best. We can take baby steps to a better future without having the entirety of human civilization dismantled as the libertarians and anarchist believe is necessary. We all agree that we need to minimize human suffering.

"We want people to be able to turn to their children and say, it's going to be ok." - Props Vice President Biden.