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maystoneJust while I wait for the meds to kick in. Which should be soon, so you're all nearly safe.
I saw bits and pieces of the debate. I tuned in to CNN to watch the people-meter do it's thing, but I had the sound off. Mostly it was men liking McCain and women liking Obama. They were supposed to be undecideds, but I think the men were mostly disaffected Republicans who weren't sure they could vote for McCain. Looks like most of them will - at least in that group. The men all loved Palin, too. On that discussion of her as a possible president, the mens line got a fucking erection. Clearly thinking and voting with the little head on that issue.
I have no respect for McCain at all. He lost his vaunted honor in his obsession for winning the election. Bald faced lies as truth. Terrible, hateful innuendo about not just Obama but all liberals. There are some truly vile and frightening sites out there on the Repug's side calling for rounding us up and charging us all with treason, for taking us out and shooting us or hanging. Cuz nothin' says good ol' boy like a done-right lynchin'.
I've seen the most racist, hateful, demeaning pictures out there of Obama. One has his photo with a noose hanging next it with the words: The Only Solution. Another photoshopped a picture so that he's a shoe-shine man giving a shine to Palin's shoes. Text? "The job he's really suited for." I haven't seen overt racism like this since I was a kid and the Civil Rights movement was in full swing. It's as sickening now as it was then.
I'm not convinced that Obama is going to win. The polls show him with a double-digit lead, but we all know that people will tell a pollster what makes them look good. In this case, if they didn't want to vote for Obama, they wouldn't want to be taken for a racist. I heard an interesting new take on it from another pollster who said that that might work in reverse. That some people are saying that they're voting for McCain because they don't want their buddies/family/co-workers to know that they're voting for a black man. It sounds reasonable, and it adds more fuel to my thought that these poll numbers don't amount to much reassurance right now. It's still a wild card election.
It's funny: I was not an Obama supporter. I still don't like his stance on abortion and health care. But he's the best alternative to what we have now, and what the opposition is offering. Obama has put up with a huge amount of crap, more than any other candidate has had to deal with, and I include the SwiftBoating of Kerry. He's handled it beautifully, though, and his grace under pressure has done much to sway me more comfortably to his side.
It's going to be a rough three weeks until the election. Anything can happen. The rubes are going to be even more fired up, and I'm paranoid enough to be concerned that one of those yahoos - say in Ohio - is going to be "so "scared to raise [his] children in an Obama world" that he might decide to do something deadly to ease his fears. Because the base is really fired up, kidlets. And nothing is as scary in my book as a true believer with a "righteous" mission.
I haven't seen our country this divided since the Viet Nam War. Fist fights would break out, family members wouldn't speak with each other, random acts of violence would take place against "hippies" - who really were anyone with long hair and/or a peace symbol on them somewhere. The only difference now is that the liberals aren't that easy to pick out of a crowd, really. Oh wait, we'd be the ones talking in cultured accents while waiting in line at Starbucks. The elites, I believe they call us. Fuck that. Fuck them.
We're so strongly divided that I don't know what can bring us together again. There is such distrust on both sides of the political divide, that whoever gets in is going to have one half of the country hoping for his failure. At the very least. And with the current global economic, environmental, and political crises assaulting us all, we need a unity of purpose. We need to come together again. And I just can't see that happening for quite some time.
I saw bits and pieces of the debate. I tuned in to CNN to watch the people-meter do it's thing, but I had the sound off. Mostly it was men liking McCain and women liking Obama. They were supposed to be undecideds, but I think the men were mostly disaffected Republicans who weren't sure they could vote for McCain. Looks like most of them will - at least in that group. The men all loved Palin, too. On that discussion of her as a possible president, the mens line got a fucking erection. Clearly thinking and voting with the little head on that issue.
I have no respect for McCain at all. He lost his vaunted honor in his obsession for winning the election. Bald faced lies as truth. Terrible, hateful innuendo about not just Obama but all liberals. There are some truly vile and frightening sites out there on the Repug's side calling for rounding us up and charging us all with treason, for taking us out and shooting us or hanging. Cuz nothin' says good ol' boy like a done-right lynchin'.
I've seen the most racist, hateful, demeaning pictures out there of Obama. One has his photo with a noose hanging next it with the words: The Only Solution. Another photoshopped a picture so that he's a shoe-shine man giving a shine to Palin's shoes. Text? "The job he's really suited for." I haven't seen overt racism like this since I was a kid and the Civil Rights movement was in full swing. It's as sickening now as it was then.
I'm not convinced that Obama is going to win. The polls show him with a double-digit lead, but we all know that people will tell a pollster what makes them look good. In this case, if they didn't want to vote for Obama, they wouldn't want to be taken for a racist. I heard an interesting new take on it from another pollster who said that that might work in reverse. That some people are saying that they're voting for McCain because they don't want their buddies/family/co-workers to know that they're voting for a black man. It sounds reasonable, and it adds more fuel to my thought that these poll numbers don't amount to much reassurance right now. It's still a wild card election.
It's funny: I was not an Obama supporter. I still don't like his stance on abortion and health care. But he's the best alternative to what we have now, and what the opposition is offering. Obama has put up with a huge amount of crap, more than any other candidate has had to deal with, and I include the SwiftBoating of Kerry. He's handled it beautifully, though, and his grace under pressure has done much to sway me more comfortably to his side.
It's going to be a rough three weeks until the election. Anything can happen. The rubes are going to be even more fired up, and I'm paranoid enough to be concerned that one of those yahoos - say in Ohio - is going to be "so "scared to raise [his] children in an Obama world" that he might decide to do something deadly to ease his fears. Because the base is really fired up, kidlets. And nothing is as scary in my book as a true believer with a "righteous" mission.
I haven't seen our country this divided since the Viet Nam War. Fist fights would break out, family members wouldn't speak with each other, random acts of violence would take place against "hippies" - who really were anyone with long hair and/or a peace symbol on them somewhere. The only difference now is that the liberals aren't that easy to pick out of a crowd, really. Oh wait, we'd be the ones talking in cultured accents while waiting in line at Starbucks. The elites, I believe they call us. Fuck that. Fuck them.
We're so strongly divided that I don't know what can bring us together again. There is such distrust on both sides of the political divide, that whoever gets in is going to have one half of the country hoping for his failure. At the very least. And with the current global economic, environmental, and political crises assaulting us all, we need a unity of purpose. We need to come together again. And I just can't see that happening for quite some time.
