Yeppers It's the Election...Again!
Oct. 21st, 2008 02:33 amEarly voting started here yesterday and turnout was heavy. I have hope that TX might not be such a red state this time. We have no dog in this hunt as it were. No one on the top of either ticket is from here, and well I would hope that voters got informed about both major parties candidates. And honestly we cannot afford more of the same here any more. I would love to see TX flip over to blue this time. I don't expect it, but yeah I would love to see it happen.
I for one am waiting to see what the McShame/Palin campaign make of Obama going to HI to see his sick grandmother this week. Part of me is thinking they can't sink any lower, but then again they've sunk lower than I expected, so yeah ... they can. I am hoping for Senator Obama's sake that she recovers but that he's going there doesn't look too hopeful at all.
That said I am absolutely amazed at the sliming of General Colin Powell by the republicans since he endorsed Obama. I am very impressed with the endorsement and his calling out the republican campaign on their smear tactics but damn this man is beyond party. He's one who many democrats would've crossed party lines to vote for, had he run himself. Powell gave a very thoughtful nuanced set of reasons for endorsing Barack Obama and race was not part of it. He also had a very good answer for the 'socialist' thing they've been laying on Obama. He made the point that taxes are always a redistribution of money. Taxes pay our Soldiers, they pave our roads, they put cops on the street, books in the schools and pay our teachers. Taxes aren't a bad thing even though no one I know likes them much.
For people like McCain and Palin to make the statements they make about taxes show me they don't have a flipping clue about what the country needs or wants. They just need to go away. I HOPE like hell I don't ever hear of Palin again after this election and I hope like hell that the good voters of Arizona vote McCain out when he runs for the senate again or he just retires on his own. They are both behaving badly, and we just don't need that right now. I've developed more than a little contempt for them and their campaign. Some of the crap Palin has spewed has done nothing but piss me off. I am appalled at the idea that some parts of the US are more American than others. I find myself cursing more about the racist subtext of their campaign than I ever did about either of the Bushes, and I loathed W with a passion that only one who'd lost a job thanks to him could feel. When I voted against W it was damned personal, I liked that job! But McCain and Palin have hit me to a level of dislike bordering on outright hate that even he could not reach.
When did LIberal become a bad word in the US? When did the idea of fairness, decency and honor become something to laugh at? I grew up in a very liberal family. We loathed Reagan and the voodoo economics he espoused. We hated the demonisation of Affirmative Action that happened on his watch. We watched our incomes flatline and our bills increase. My mother told me once that the assassination of Dr. King broke her heart. I told her the killing of George Moscone and Harvey Milk broke mine. And we watched the 'angry white men' have their way and their say with voices like Rush Limbaugh who never ever spoke for me or mine. Rush Limbaugh, the Josef Goebbels of the right wing. Gods I loathe that man.
The republican party is imploding and part of me is gleeful at its' implosion. They've done so much damage with the divisiveness and bullshit of the Rove machine. I want them to go away and reinvent themselves and get some credibility. But mainly I want them to go away. I want Palin to go home and take care of her kids and shut the hell up about taking my choices and my kid's choices away. I want McCain to go away and get over himself. I want the makeup of the Supreme Court changed to a bit more center-liberal. I want so much for a better polity and I want all that damned hate that they stirred up to die with the generation it appeals to. I want the politics of hope, and as I've said Senator Obama has that.
Roomie asked me why I support Obama, and I told him it's because he speaks to me. The white woman who married black. The veteran who still gets asked at the VA, 'where's the vet?'. The mother of biracial children who see a biracial man poised to take it all. And the woman who never thought melanin was all that damned important when the dream exists and the attainment is possible. Someone who wants our politicians to appeal to our best selves, not the baser selves. We've already been there, done that. Time for change. Time for hope. And damn sure time for a difference.
I for one am waiting to see what the McShame/Palin campaign make of Obama going to HI to see his sick grandmother this week. Part of me is thinking they can't sink any lower, but then again they've sunk lower than I expected, so yeah ... they can. I am hoping for Senator Obama's sake that she recovers but that he's going there doesn't look too hopeful at all.
That said I am absolutely amazed at the sliming of General Colin Powell by the republicans since he endorsed Obama. I am very impressed with the endorsement and his calling out the republican campaign on their smear tactics but damn this man is beyond party. He's one who many democrats would've crossed party lines to vote for, had he run himself. Powell gave a very thoughtful nuanced set of reasons for endorsing Barack Obama and race was not part of it. He also had a very good answer for the 'socialist' thing they've been laying on Obama. He made the point that taxes are always a redistribution of money. Taxes pay our Soldiers, they pave our roads, they put cops on the street, books in the schools and pay our teachers. Taxes aren't a bad thing even though no one I know likes them much.
For people like McCain and Palin to make the statements they make about taxes show me they don't have a flipping clue about what the country needs or wants. They just need to go away. I HOPE like hell I don't ever hear of Palin again after this election and I hope like hell that the good voters of Arizona vote McCain out when he runs for the senate again or he just retires on his own. They are both behaving badly, and we just don't need that right now. I've developed more than a little contempt for them and their campaign. Some of the crap Palin has spewed has done nothing but piss me off. I am appalled at the idea that some parts of the US are more American than others. I find myself cursing more about the racist subtext of their campaign than I ever did about either of the Bushes, and I loathed W with a passion that only one who'd lost a job thanks to him could feel. When I voted against W it was damned personal, I liked that job! But McCain and Palin have hit me to a level of dislike bordering on outright hate that even he could not reach.
When did LIberal become a bad word in the US? When did the idea of fairness, decency and honor become something to laugh at? I grew up in a very liberal family. We loathed Reagan and the voodoo economics he espoused. We hated the demonisation of Affirmative Action that happened on his watch. We watched our incomes flatline and our bills increase. My mother told me once that the assassination of Dr. King broke her heart. I told her the killing of George Moscone and Harvey Milk broke mine. And we watched the 'angry white men' have their way and their say with voices like Rush Limbaugh who never ever spoke for me or mine. Rush Limbaugh, the Josef Goebbels of the right wing. Gods I loathe that man.
The republican party is imploding and part of me is gleeful at its' implosion. They've done so much damage with the divisiveness and bullshit of the Rove machine. I want them to go away and reinvent themselves and get some credibility. But mainly I want them to go away. I want Palin to go home and take care of her kids and shut the hell up about taking my choices and my kid's choices away. I want McCain to go away and get over himself. I want the makeup of the Supreme Court changed to a bit more center-liberal. I want so much for a better polity and I want all that damned hate that they stirred up to die with the generation it appeals to. I want the politics of hope, and as I've said Senator Obama has that.
Roomie asked me why I support Obama, and I told him it's because he speaks to me. The white woman who married black. The veteran who still gets asked at the VA, 'where's the vet?'. The mother of biracial children who see a biracial man poised to take it all. And the woman who never thought melanin was all that damned important when the dream exists and the attainment is possible. Someone who wants our politicians to appeal to our best selves, not the baser selves. We've already been there, done that. Time for change. Time for hope. And damn sure time for a difference.