Blogging{365-123}K小姐和B先生_第一場總統辯論會。

美國時間十月三號晚上八點(central time)是美國2012年總統大選的第一場演場，全美國都屏息以待。K小姐也十分期待，因為這是現任總統歐巴馬和總統候選人Mitt Romney 兩人首次首度交鋒，完整的對議題進行討論和辯論，可以很清楚一較高下，很多還未決定的選民都會以這場辯論為準，包括了K小姐，她所期待的是，兩位候選人可以很深入的對國家的議題進行討論很不是惡意的攻擊。這也是K小姐第一次很完整的聆聽兩個人的政見。針對工作，經濟，醫療體系，政府的責任和角色定位。整個辯論會長達一個小時半。

Blogging{365-120}K小姐和B先生_驢子的會議(上)

這是Democratic 的Logo, 可以說是"Donkey"，或是"Jackass". K小姐總會把這隻想成是史瑞克的那隻Donkey, anyway，K小姐找出來原始的典故如下:

 
The Donkey— Presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat ever to be associated with the donkey symbol. His opponents during the election of 1828 tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist beliefs and slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson was entertained by the notion and ended up using it to his advantage on his campaign posters.

But cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with making the donkey the recognized symbol of the Democratic Party. It first appeared in a cartoon in Harper's Weekly in 1870, and was supposed to represent an anti-Civil War faction. But the public was immediately taken by it and by 1880 it had already become the unofficial symbol of the party.

The Elephant— Political cartoonist Thomas Nast was also responsible for the Republican Party elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled "The Republican Vote." That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party.
See the official sites of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee for more information.

—The Editors

Read more: Why the Donkey and Elephant? — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/donkey-elephant.html#ixzz27nerW9xH


K小姐覺得驢子跟大象比較起來，用大象來做黨徽可能比較稱頭，有誰想要在驢子黨呢? 感覺總是不可靠就像史瑞克的好朋友Donkey一樣，要把國家交給驢子黨，好像有點太危險。 K小姐是一個不太碰政治的人，她看報紙也只看娛樂版，出國念書後，對其他國家的政治也不太感興趣，但是她到了美國後，發現她的同事，環繞在她身邊的人都在談"政治"。


Politics is Everything in USA.  


跟B先生在一起後，B先生總是在看政黨新聞，EVERYDAY，總是要追著新聞24小時，深怕錯過任何事，K小姐總是笑稱他是FOX News的第一粉絲。所以K小姐每天這樣耳濡目染之下，就算K小姐是外籍新娘，移民者，但總是可以聽到B先生這位本地人，白人的價值觀。這其實是兩個很衝突的價值觀，就像歐巴馬的政見和Mitt Romney的政見一樣，兩個完全不同的價值觀。



 

To Be Continued

Blogging{365-113} K小姐和B先生_大象的會議(下)

Mitt Romney 一直以來是Republican 初選以來，都是第二人選。是經過了長時間的討論，好幾十次的辯論會，當時只要是Republican 第一人選的人後來都經不起辯論的考驗，或者有些人有醜聞，結果都被淘汰了。只又Mitt Romney半年來，不斷的爭取曝光，不斷的參與辯論，和他所提出的政策經得起人民的考驗，所以能走到這步，成為Republican 正式的候選人，實屬不簡單。