Action Interview

The Action Interview Assignment

 

 

For the action interview I called my friend Jay. When we first became friends and were talking on the phone, he called out, "Where is Obama? Go get him! Where did he go?" I thought it was rather odd, even a bit scary, but didn't ask. A few days later, I heard, "You want Palin? You want Palin? Go get Palin!"

 

Dog toys, named after politicians....I can admire that.

 

My friend Jay is a hard working, ex-military, tax paying, takes care of his mother kind of guy, that grew up on welfare.

 

For the 2008 election he voted for John McCain, even though we both feared what would happen to the country if Palin were somehow President. His reasoning was McCain had spent longer in a POW camp than Obama had spent in politics. In his opinion Obama was untested, had not engaged in world politics and did not have any military experience.

 

For the 2012 election Jay voted for Obama. He said that he felt that Obama had helped provide much needed jobs and infrastructure, and had started working his way toward what he set out to do. Jay, being a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, had no interest in seeing Mitt as President. The country's fate in the hands of a man that would leave a dog atop a car did not sit well. He also cited that Obamacare was first Romneycare, that the testing ground for it was Massachusetts, and that during the campaign, Romney was bashing Obama for Obamacare.

 

 

 The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.--- Thomas Jefferson, as quoted by Jay.

 

 

Jay called himself an independent voter, hopes for a flat tax, believes in a smaller government, thinks all individuals should enjoy freedom of marriage, the right to bear arms, and decisions of what to do with their own bodies. He feels that we need to help disabled and older Americans, but that younger people should have to take advantage of training opportunities. He is dismayed that people on welfare these days are missing out of the public shame of having to stand in the food-stamp line. He also feels that welfare recipients should have to pass drug tests, and that immigrants need to be better scrutinized. He will continue to vote for whoever represents his ideas best, and hopes that Obamacare works out.

 

I believe that most people vote for who best encompasses their views and values.

 

My own political views are much the same as my friend Jay's, except that I pay politics and politicians much less attention. However, I feel that most of them would make good chew toys for canines. Especially Palin.

 

 

1.  How did you vote in the last election?  Why?

2.  Do you consider yourself a liberal, conservative, or independent?

3.  What life experiences have shaped your political values?

4.  What key issues are most important to you, when it comes to US policy?

5.  Who will you likely vote for in the future?  Are you happy with your party?

6.  Guns?

7.  Abortion?

8.  Welfare?

9.  United Nations?, which somehow lead to FEMA?, which lead to the answer: Not crazy about the UN, they have an overabundance of power where they don't need it, and too little power where they need it. Somehow, this was likened to being the opposite of FEMA.

10. Obamacare?