It's time.
Yes, I am aware how many legitimate news outlets and also FOX News have speculated as to when I would FINALLY come forward and endorse a candidate for the upcoming presidential "election."
Well, in most presidential contests since my voting life began, it's been a choice of the lesser of two evils without a lot of difference. Of course, when Bush ran for a second term, that was different - many, many people were idiots and did not vote because - I actually heard this - "it's not like anyone is going to vote for Bush again, so I think we're safe..."
Um... yeah. You need to VOTE, dumbasses.
This time it seems even more clear. Everyday people are, for the first time in my life, getting excited about a candidate. OBAMA!
Anyway, even my dyed in the wool usually Republican parentals and I see eye to eye this time. It seems like another no brainer, but let's not anyone be idiots this time and see it as a gimme. honestly, I've yet to hear any convincing arguments for his opponent. The primary reason people seem to have for voting for him is that they are Republican. That is not a reason. His opponent's campaign, to me, it so far not about why you ought to vote for McCain but what terrible fears you should have about an America under Obama. I would not, to put in perspective, eat at McDonald's because they'd run ads telling me that my children's children would suffer if I ate at Wendy's.
There are more differences between Obama and McCain than between McDonald's and Wendy's, by the way. That's a new idea as well, having the candidates be different enought to matter.
I used to like McCain, but he has so thoroughly changed his public persona in hopes of securing the far right that he's lost touch with the great masses I think. That said, even if he were the McCain I once said I might one day vote for, there's little hope I'd vote for him when faced with someone like Obama.
If you're middle of the road or respond only to the reactionary media, I encourage you to go out and find some of the full Obama speeches - his speech on race in America from March or his speech on classism from sometime shortly after - and listen to the man. Watch him as he speaks. Don't listen to the soundbites. Give both men your due consideration - not the media's coverage of them, but the truth of what's out there. Not what sensationalism has uncovered about McCain's alien baby or Obama's hillbilly brother, but the real stuff that matters.
Give it thought, and THEN vote for Obama.
heh.
Anyway, I am back in LA... Missing all the great people back in Kansas and elsewhere, but readying to begin another (shorter) adventure.
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