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syncope at 09:29pm on 03/09/2008
syncope at 09:29pm on 03/09/2008Romney and Huckabee the same day? So two of the dudes who should have been on the ticket instead of the total mistake candidate that crazy coot McCain picked? Has the RNC just given up completely? This feels a lot like a Democratic convention in the desperation. YAY!
Also now that I know Huckabee isn't going to win the nomination, he can go back to amusing me by being an ott aw-shucks Christian stumper who I love to listen to because he reminds me of a snake oil salesman for Jesus.
Why the FUCK did they put all of the most speculated about VP noms before Palin? Implode GOP, implode!
"Country First?" Really? I hate these people. I honestly do. I know it's out of favor now to admit that you really dislike people for their political views because we're trying to come together and be purple states and all that stuff I DO believe in, but I'm a Democrat and I hate Republicans. The end. I'm really FAR left for a Democrat and I've played around with other parties because from Clinton on I've thought the party's skewed far too centrist for me (my loathing of Clinton should be an indication of my leftwing zealotry--I'm the person the Republicans are talking about when they paint the left with tar and feathers--I'm pro-choice, anti-death penalty, for gun control, socialized medicine, conscripted public service for youth, anti-NAFTA and IMF, and all the rest of the highlights on how to be the strawman the Republicans put up when dissing the left). I'm not a moderate swing voter, or forgiving when it comes to bible-thumping rhetoric. This is deeply influenced by growing up in what my mom calls the buckle of the bible belt. When I was a kid I watched Dixiecrats become Reagan Democrats and I didn't understand what was happening at the time because I was a very young child. Now I get it and I hate those people more and more--they capitulated to fear, xenophobia, and NIMBA-thinking and that's RUINED the American Dream. It was always a dream, but the dream is mostly dead now. That's just disturbing and emblematic of the last thirty years.
Paragraph break. I have never gotten the whole wide-eyed innocence of the baby boomers. They always mystified me, because I grew in the post-American Dream America that was all about realpolitik and cynicism.
And that is why I love Barack Obama.
I'm donating to moveon to get my t-shirt and to the Obama campaign as well--and that will be the first time I ever gave money to a political candidate. I've volunteered before, of course, because Joe fucking Scarborough was my representative--and he's typical of the vile scumbags my home region produces.
Shocking, Rudy's talking about terrorism.
The "drill, baby, drill" chant is exactly what I'm talking about wrt how loathsome I find the Republican base. The hatred towards Muslims is exactly what I expect from Guiliani, but I'm truly vexed over this off-shore drilling issue. Back in the day even REPUBLICANS were against this. Siiiiiiiigh. It's just all so depressing.
BOOOOOOOOOO UN! /Republicans at Convention. It's like a Toby Keith concert.
All the sarcastic dumbing it down the Republicans get up to is so offensive to humanity, I swear.
Sarah Palin. What can be said? Shallowly, I hate her accent. "Profile In Courage?" Really???? Hm. Kennedy shoutie at Republican Convention? Strange way to go. Using her Down Syndrome baby as a political point is sort of...fucked up. I have to imagine it's not her so much as it's whatever cock wrote the speech. There's been so much talk about how the leftwing has said "what about her family?" regarding her political ambitions. I think that's fucking shitty. I agree that bringing up her family commitments to diss her running for office is bullshit. I have to imagine HRC is puking over those attacks. Attack her over her record as much as you want--because that's absolutely valid--but saying that she has a young family to bring her candidacy into question is simply sexist. Who cares about the family? She does abuse her family for rhetoric herself, but so? It's how women have to present themselves to seem like human beings. The issue is McCain making a poor choice. Remember the "baking cookies" attacks on HRC? Same stuff. It's troubling. And easy. You can separate her being a bad candidate from her personal life. I guess there's an element where she's the pretty girl everyone hated in high school so picking on her feels validating, but sticking to the fact she's a bible-thumping, polar bear-hating wackadoodle is good enough for me.
Also now that I know Huckabee isn't going to win the nomination, he can go back to amusing me by being an ott aw-shucks Christian stumper who I love to listen to because he reminds me of a snake oil salesman for Jesus.
Why the FUCK did they put all of the most speculated about VP noms before Palin? Implode GOP, implode!
"Country First?" Really? I hate these people. I honestly do. I know it's out of favor now to admit that you really dislike people for their political views because we're trying to come together and be purple states and all that stuff I DO believe in, but I'm a Democrat and I hate Republicans. The end. I'm really FAR left for a Democrat and I've played around with other parties because from Clinton on I've thought the party's skewed far too centrist for me (my loathing of Clinton should be an indication of my leftwing zealotry--I'm the person the Republicans are talking about when they paint the left with tar and feathers--I'm pro-choice, anti-death penalty, for gun control, socialized medicine, conscripted public service for youth, anti-NAFTA and IMF, and all the rest of the highlights on how to be the strawman the Republicans put up when dissing the left). I'm not a moderate swing voter, or forgiving when it comes to bible-thumping rhetoric. This is deeply influenced by growing up in what my mom calls the buckle of the bible belt. When I was a kid I watched Dixiecrats become Reagan Democrats and I didn't understand what was happening at the time because I was a very young child. Now I get it and I hate those people more and more--they capitulated to fear, xenophobia, and NIMBA-thinking and that's RUINED the American Dream. It was always a dream, but the dream is mostly dead now. That's just disturbing and emblematic of the last thirty years.
Paragraph break. I have never gotten the whole wide-eyed innocence of the baby boomers. They always mystified me, because I grew in the post-American Dream America that was all about realpolitik and cynicism.
And that is why I love Barack Obama.
I'm donating to moveon to get my t-shirt and to the Obama campaign as well--and that will be the first time I ever gave money to a political candidate. I've volunteered before, of course, because Joe fucking Scarborough was my representative--and he's typical of the vile scumbags my home region produces.
Shocking, Rudy's talking about terrorism.
The "drill, baby, drill" chant is exactly what I'm talking about wrt how loathsome I find the Republican base. The hatred towards Muslims is exactly what I expect from Guiliani, but I'm truly vexed over this off-shore drilling issue. Back in the day even REPUBLICANS were against this. Siiiiiiiigh. It's just all so depressing.
BOOOOOOOOOO UN! /Republicans at Convention. It's like a Toby Keith concert.
All the sarcastic dumbing it down the Republicans get up to is so offensive to humanity, I swear.
Sarah Palin. What can be said? Shallowly, I hate her accent. "Profile In Courage?" Really???? Hm. Kennedy shoutie at Republican Convention? Strange way to go. Using her Down Syndrome baby as a political point is sort of...fucked up. I have to imagine it's not her so much as it's whatever cock wrote the speech. There's been so much talk about how the leftwing has said "what about her family?" regarding her political ambitions. I think that's fucking shitty. I agree that bringing up her family commitments to diss her running for office is bullshit. I have to imagine HRC is puking over those attacks. Attack her over her record as much as you want--because that's absolutely valid--but saying that she has a young family to bring her candidacy into question is simply sexist. Who cares about the family? She does abuse her family for rhetoric herself, but so? It's how women have to present themselves to seem like human beings. The issue is McCain making a poor choice. Remember the "baking cookies" attacks on HRC? Same stuff. It's troubling. And easy. You can separate her being a bad candidate from her personal life. I guess there's an element where she's the pretty girl everyone hated in high school so picking on her feels validating, but sticking to the fact she's a bible-thumping, polar bear-hating wackadoodle is good enough for me.
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