It has to get better

[theatokos]

My week at work has been made of fail, as the kids say these days. I am exhausted, tense. I celebrate the end of the week with a last glass of delicious Italian wine and some homemade mac n cheese and watching the presidential debates.

My thoughts thus far:
Obama HAS to be the next president. I don't think he is the next coming of Jesus. I've been quite skeptical of him all along and I still think he's a party Democrat, working the system like all politicians. I'm also frustrated that the debate, like always, is full of double speak and evasion. It makes me crazy and I can tell that it's making Jim Leher crazy too.

Until a few months ago I still help open the possibility that I might vote for McCain. I really respected him, despite my disagreements on several things. But in the last many months McCain has turned about face and shed his "maverick" qualities faster than.... well, faster than I shed my dress on prom night. And his pick of Sarah Palin is the last nail in the coffin.

McCain's health care ideas will effectively eliminate the health care Adam and I receive. If small business are taxed for providing health care, then Adam and I will be priced out. I know this as fact, because I manage (barely) the insurance at my workplace.

On top of all this, McCain has such a distasteful look of Old White Guy smugness on his face. I just can't take another smug bastard in the White House for 4 more years.

More than anything I want the "moral" values baloney to stop. I hate, loathe, detest the culture wars in this country. I'm pro-life AND I vote pro-choice and honestly? Not the biggest issue facing our country right now.

Comments

[jesamin.livejournal.com]

This debate is making me want to slam my head against the wall over and over and over and over and over.

And over.

I'm watching and I'm bored but I'm still watching. Could they just answer the frigging questions already? Would that be so hard?

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

NO KIDDING

[chiv.livejournal.com]

Skjaere (http://skjaere.livejournal.com/663256.html) is talking about this as well, my thoughts are in the replies.

safe to say the rest of the world hopes Obama is elected too, I even walked past an Obama campaign poster in Manchester today, a real commercial poster, not just a scrappy fly post.
BUT! I do have to say that while the Republicans to seem to be shooting themselves in the feet (and everywhere else) Obama, from an external press's point of view, appears to be riding the messianic ticket without offering any explantion as to how he's going to achieve any of his policies.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

And the foreign press is right!

Dude.

[hrafntinna.livejournal.com]

That debate sucked. I remember fondly though wistfully the Bush-Kerry debates, during which I thought things were actually being said. I did a certain amount of "yeah!" and "right on!" and pumping my fist and whatnot. (No, really.) This just now was empty political tweeting. Disappointing, but I really don't care as long as we end up with Obama when the dust has cleared.

Re: Dude.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It was lame. But if this was supposed to be McCain's strong suit.... whoa.

I have fond memories of election night 4 years ago, sitting around in my apt and later on discovering just how much liquor you can hold. I shake my fist at Columbus this year.

[amyura.livejournal.com]

I think I love you. Pretty much exactly how I feel. The health care thing is making me lose sleep at night. McCain wants to cut taxes? Yeah, that'd make my taxes go WAY up.....along with almost everyone in my state, thanks to our mandatory health-care law.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Awwww. If we can come up with $700 billion for bank bail outs and almost $1 trillion for a war then why can't we pony up the cash for health care?

[honeyrider.livejournal.com]

But in the last many months McCain has turned about face and shed his "maverick" qualities faster than.... well, faster than I shed my dress on prom night. And his pick of Sarah Palin is the last nail in the coffin.

i was just talking about this last night. up until he started campaigning, i didn't have a problem with mccain, in fact, i respected him and, for once, voting republican seemed like a possibility. wtf happened? i realize he had to make a right turn in order not to alienate conservative republicans but by doing so he a. alienated potential swing voters and b. made himself out to look like a turncoat.

i fail to see the strategy there.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I thought I might finally have a tough choice in choosing the president! But no. McCain had made it very easy for me.

[miss-ogyny.livejournal.com]

Jim Leher was great...he had this nagging thing going...I want to marry Jim Leher

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Ew. But yes, he was great. He was damned and determined to get them to debate. I loved when he said "No! PLEASE talk to eachother!" Ha!

I think Obama won the debate. McCain didn't fail, but he definitely didn't win.

[(Anonymous)]

"On top of all this, McCain has such a distasteful look of Old White Guy smugness on his face."

What a sophisticated analysis. It's good that you also said things that are less stupid in this post, though.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Who are you? And why are you so snarky? If you want to engage, reveal yourself.