Time to Pop Zepplin Head Barbara Boxer
This is a really cool ad; it’s a little long (nearly 8 minutes), but it’s definitely worth the watch.
It’s called “Hot Air: The Movie” and it’s a campaign video from Carly Fiorina who is running against ultra-liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer from California. The video points out that in the 18 years Senator Boxer has been in Washington has accomplished little…little good, that is.
She has accomplished plenty that has been bad for the country and bad for the American people, however. From pushing tax increases to her casual disregard for national defense, to her pandering to imaginary global warming “threats” to rob you of more of your freedom and tax dollars, it’s about time someone stuck a pin in this full-of-hot-air airhead.
I don’t know a whole lot about Carly Fiorina, but it would be hard to imagine someone as bad as Barbara Boxer. In fact, it would seem that Fiorina’s business resume and life experience make her an excellent choice to replace Boxer. According to Fiorina’s website, she has a good stance on many issues: fiscal responsibility, free market health care solutions, immigration and border control, and strong national defense.
It’ll be interesting to see this race shape up!
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“I worked so hard for the title [Senator]“
The high-points of Boxer's rise into politics:
Boxer was born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn. She attended public schools.
In 1962, she married Stewart Boxer and graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics.
Boxer worked as a stockbroker for the next three years, while her husband went to law school. The couple moved to Greenbrae, Marin County, California.
She first ran for political office in 1972, when she challenged incumbent Peter Arrigoni, a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, but lost a close election.
Later during the 1970s, Boxer worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to John Burton, then a member of Congress.
In 1976, Boxer was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors, serving for six years.
Her daughter Nicole married Tony Rodham, brother of then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a ceremony at the White House.
Boxer's husband, Stewart, is a prominent attorney in Oakland, who specializes in worker's compensation cases (on the side of injured workers). Many cases are referred to him by labor unions, including the Teamsters.
According to one story, which Boxer has acknowledged, in 1972, Stewart had planned to run for the Marin County Board of Supervisors, but decided the campaign would interfere with his law practice in Oakland, so Barbara ran instead. She was supported in that election by Marin Alternative, a broad-based, liberal political organization which she had helped found a few years before. A very active force in Marin County politics for a while, Marin Alternative dissolved in the late 1970s.
Summary: Mediocre education, married well, may have actually held a real job for a few years then took advantage of her husband's liberal labor connections and money to enter into politics.
A story worth of Horatio Alger.
Thank you for the run-down on Boxer, Dr. Theo.
That was an impressively done video. I don't know anything about Carly Fiorina, but I doubt she could cut her hair much shorter than it is. Just from seeing her here, I'm wondering if she is married with children, or maybe she has a “girlfriend.” Good luck to her, anyway, in defeating Boxer. Boxer must go.
You gotta love how everything here always seems to get around to the “gay” thing sooner or later Gina. You know though, Google is your friend… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina
Google is no friend of mine, Junior. Like I said, I don't know about her and don't really need to. Her appearance is of no consequence, of course. I just marvel at how so many women cut their hair off.
Just thought it funny Gina. When I see woman with short hair, whether she has a “girlfriend” is not one of the things that would normally be something I wondered.
While there are exceptions, it is easily observable that more homosexual women tend to have extremely short hair than do heterosexual women. Apparently it is often connected to the sexual dysfunction that ails them, and they want to (a) take on a masculine role/appearance, or (b) want to avoid a feminine role/appearance.
But you are right that it most assuredly not universally true of short-haired women.
Bob and Junior, now that I think of it (duh), I did not express myself very well. I apologize for the “gay” reference, because that's not really what I meant.
What it is that hits me is how women who achieve places of power often carry themselves in a more masculine manner, as if they're trying to “compete” with men by being more like them. I just think a woman can be a woman and be successful without affecting masculine airs.
That's all I was saying, though I didn't say it in a good or clear way. I said I don't need to know about her because she's not running in my state, so can't vote for her anyway.
Barbara Boxer voted against the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war, both horrible ideas that have cost us trillions. In addition, she actually worked as a county supervisor before running for Senator.
Carly Fiorina has never held any office and wants to start at the top. She married an executive and that was her entry into the boardroom. She ran HP into the ground and laid off 28,000 employees then was booted out, but not before collecting her multi-million dollar golden parachute. She also traded with the enemy, selling tons of computers to IRAN.
I don't understand the right wingers hate for Boxer, it's not as if the Republicans are any better, they're not.
Yes, allowing American citizens to keep more of the money they've earned instead of sucking it into the government to waste it is a horrible idea. Crazy, too, is the idea of holding a genocidal dictator to the cease fire agreement he signed at the end of the Persian Gulf war, and who defied 17 UN resolutions that were backed primarily by U.S. military strength (that was being mocked and discredited by his defiance), and who was supporting terrorism against civilians in our ally Israel, and who made it clear that if he could get rid of UN oversight, he would go right back to pushing forward with his WMD programs.
How crazy could Bush have been for these things?
You are also quite correct that Barbara Boxer is infinitely more qualified to squander the resources and freedoms of the American people. After all, she has had relatively little experience in that evil free market private sector that forms the basis of this the most affluent and technologically advanced nation in the world–instead spending most of her adult life leeching these resources away from the people who earned them and giving them to corrupt politicians and Americans who have not earned them.
Meanwhile, Carly Fiorina has wasted her time by obtaining an MBA from Stanford and another degree from MIT. She's also done nothing but useless business-related things like starting from the ground up in entry-level positions to become a CEO. Why in the world would we want to contaminate government with someone who has real-world experience–and not only that, but real-world leadership experience in that evil free market system that produces the aforementioned wealth and comfort for the American people.
For any and all mistakes both Boxer and Fiorina may have made, the choice really becomes clear when you compare the two.