It has to get better
Sep. 26th, 2008 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosMy 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.
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.
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Date: 2008-09-30 05:12 pm (UTC)What a sophisticated analysis. It's good that you also said things that are less stupid in this post, though.
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Date: 2008-09-30 05:22 pm (UTC)