And Our Cities Are Filled with Graffiti And Violent Crime!
According to this article at Politico, Pennsylvanians are poorer, dumber, and more easily influenced than people in other states. Whooo-hoooo!! Finally, we bust out of the cheesesteak eating, iceball at football game throwing, Liberty Bell having mold we've been trapped in for so long!
Also according to this article, and possibly linked to the whole poor and dumb verdict, we're more likely to vote for Hill the Pill than Obama.
This is the first I've written about politics since Tuesday, even though I am obsessing over this primary hoohaw.
Fear-o numero uno: If Hillary wins the nomination, McCain will beat her. Insanely rich people will continue to get richer on the backs of poor children without health insurance. Young, REALLY young, soldiers who have been, at this point, pressed into what amounts to indentured servitude will continue to die and be traumatized and sacrificed on the altar of a nation's hubris.
And today, oil prices are higher. The dollar is lower. The cold war, previously interrupted for some important announcements - like PEACE FOR $%^&*!!'s sake - is creeping on in. People are losing their jobs. Education is underfunded and corrupted. We are being poisoned by our food and our water and our air. Dangerous idiots a la Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh get millionaire real estate on the air waves (OK, not air waves anymore, but "on the fiberoptic cable" or "on the digital signal" sounds lame). I, a person who hates fish in all forms living and dead, will need to buy scuba gear before the year 2020 in order to get to the Acme because we are cooking our planet. Everyone else in the world thinks we're chumps. And they are right. And I don't know how to fight for my children's future.
I want to do something, but I don't know what. Somehow I get the feeling that an Obama sign on my front lawn isn't going to spark national change.
Viva La Revolution.
Alrighty then. Apparently I had something to say.
On an entirely unrelated note, and quite distinct from the mass global destruction I just carried on about, I am looking forward to the Bossy's Road Trip send-off.
Also according to this article, and possibly linked to the whole poor and dumb verdict, we're more likely to vote for Hill the Pill than Obama.
This is the first I've written about politics since Tuesday, even though I am obsessing over this primary hoohaw.
Fear-o numero uno: If Hillary wins the nomination, McCain will beat her. Insanely rich people will continue to get richer on the backs of poor children without health insurance. Young, REALLY young, soldiers who have been, at this point, pressed into what amounts to indentured servitude will continue to die and be traumatized and sacrificed on the altar of a nation's hubris.
And today, oil prices are higher. The dollar is lower. The cold war, previously interrupted for some important announcements - like PEACE FOR $%^&*!!'s sake - is creeping on in. People are losing their jobs. Education is underfunded and corrupted. We are being poisoned by our food and our water and our air. Dangerous idiots a la Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh get millionaire real estate on the air waves (OK, not air waves anymore, but "on the fiberoptic cable" or "on the digital signal" sounds lame). I, a person who hates fish in all forms living and dead, will need to buy scuba gear before the year 2020 in order to get to the Acme because we are cooking our planet. Everyone else in the world thinks we're chumps. And they are right. And I don't know how to fight for my children's future.
I want to do something, but I don't know what. Somehow I get the feeling that an Obama sign on my front lawn isn't going to spark national change.
Viva La Revolution.
Alrighty then. Apparently I had something to say.
On an entirely unrelated note, and quite distinct from the mass global destruction I just carried on about, I am looking forward to the Bossy's Road Trip send-off.
Ok, let me get this straight, your whole diatribe is based on the premise that McCain will beat Clinton????? And what information are you making that bold prediction on? McCain is for the war, 68% of Americans think it was a mistake. McCain is Bush light, try to find an issue that they don't share the same view on? Iraq, tax cuts for the rich (now!), immigration,abortion,gay marriage, the list goes one. Of course McCain has come out against torture, where as Bush thinks it's a good idea.(big surprise!) So McCain/Bush will not win whether it is Hillary or Obama because the country realizes that things are not better today then they were 8 years ago, when hmmmm.... who was the president?
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If Hillary wins then that giant Ross Perotesque sucking sound you'll hear will be the McCain shop-vac lapping up all the conservative dust bunnies currently residing under the couch. Nothing excites them more than a good game of Whack-A-Clinton. And all those new, young, excited first-time democratic voters? It's not the lady candidate that has them showing up in droves. Come November they'll be sitting on that couch watching the pundits count the dust bunnies in the exit polling wondering why they even bothered to try. They wont make that mistake again.
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I see your conservative dust bunnies and raise you crumbs in the stove top red necks. Do you truly believe that certain individuals in this country are ever going to vote for an African American man? A qualified woman shouldn't run because ignorant people have a grudge against her because ummm..... she's intelligent, assertive and doesn't like to bake cookies? No offense to your chocolate whatevers, I'm sure they're tasty. The Clinton brand has done just fine thank you, you sound just like FOX Noise commentators when she decided to run for the senate in New York. That carpet bagger doesn't have a chance!!! Democrats are voting for change from Bush, whomever the nominee is,if it is fairly won will have the support of the entire democratic base. If they want to sit home and whine about Clinton winning while McCain strolls in for the sequel to Bush I and Bush II, shame on them.
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I can't speak for TWGH...well, I shouldn't anyway...but I want to make it perfectly clear that my objections to Hillary have nothing to do with gender. The dynastic trend in presidencies freaks me out, and I think the Clintons, both of them, are dirty players. I'm an idealist. No doubt. But I'm not a blind idealist. I agree with you and am able to appreciate your perspective about many issues raised, but I don't think that the average American voter - in PA or anywhere else - thinks as deeply about this as some of us do.
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Dirty players, oh my goodness no, dirty players in politics eeek god!! Perhaps if Gore and Kerry had applied a little strategically placed dirtieness we wouldn't be in the current predicament that we find ourselves. As for deep thinkers regarding the election, what is it exactly that diffrentiates Obama from Hillary policy wise? No one diminishes his ability to give a speech, he is mesmerizing at times but why him? I'm still waiting for that answer. Because republicans hate Hillary isn't good enough. Independents and Reagan Democrats see what is happening to the economy, they see that the health care system is broken, they understand that our standing in the world needs to be repaired. They can't want more of the same can they? Obama is fresh and cool and would seriously help countries around the world trust us again, but I don't think he is more qualified then Hillary which is why when I get my chance to vote, Hill the Pill as you so charmingly put it will be my choice.
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