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back at it.
sorry faithful readers for my extended hiatus there. all two of you can stop crying now.
i need to address a serious topic. okay. maybe not that serious. just the presidential elections.
does it make sense to anyone else that iowa and new hampshire are on the forefront of what our country is going to have to choose from when it comes to the farce that is the actual election this fall? okay, the choices are not exactly stellar to begin with, but then several of the candidates will be weeded out of the already mildly worthless field by the time "super tuesday" gets here because they spent too much money and time campaigning in FREAKING IOWA!!! that podunk state that has less people than our friendly neighborhood city of philadelphia. (although probably a bigger voter turnout than philly...) but they get to give unexpected life to huckawhozzit? a guy who admits to not believing in science and evolution because his feeble mind can't wrap itself around the notion that maybe evolution was the road that god (or yahweh or vishnu or whomever you choose to call that creating force that so many fight about Its title) chose to use to get to where we're at now. and possibly where we're going next.
while i think pandering to voters is the game every one of them is playing, it would seem that certain candidates are honing the craft more than ever lately. i like john mccain, but he is kissing so much christian butt lately that i almost expect him open every speech with a prayer. (i have no problem with people loving their religions, but the whole seperation of church and state thing ring a bell?) and hillary clinton CRYING at a mini-rally in new hampshire? i know everyone is calling her a machine and accusing her of being heartless, but really? crying? but that staged human side seems to have propelled her just far enough to eek out a victory in one of the nations smallest states that means next to nothing in the november elections, but has made itself important enough to all but weed out candidates like ron paul and bill richardson and joe biden (who got beat by write-ins).
meh, i guess that's enough complaining for tonight.
--jb--
i need to address a serious topic. okay. maybe not that serious. just the presidential elections.
does it make sense to anyone else that iowa and new hampshire are on the forefront of what our country is going to have to choose from when it comes to the farce that is the actual election this fall? okay, the choices are not exactly stellar to begin with, but then several of the candidates will be weeded out of the already mildly worthless field by the time "super tuesday" gets here because they spent too much money and time campaigning in FREAKING IOWA!!! that podunk state that has less people than our friendly neighborhood city of philadelphia. (although probably a bigger voter turnout than philly...) but they get to give unexpected life to huckawhozzit? a guy who admits to not believing in science and evolution because his feeble mind can't wrap itself around the notion that maybe evolution was the road that god (or yahweh or vishnu or whomever you choose to call that creating force that so many fight about Its title) chose to use to get to where we're at now. and possibly where we're going next.
while i think pandering to voters is the game every one of them is playing, it would seem that certain candidates are honing the craft more than ever lately. i like john mccain, but he is kissing so much christian butt lately that i almost expect him open every speech with a prayer. (i have no problem with people loving their religions, but the whole seperation of church and state thing ring a bell?) and hillary clinton CRYING at a mini-rally in new hampshire? i know everyone is calling her a machine and accusing her of being heartless, but really? crying? but that staged human side seems to have propelled her just far enough to eek out a victory in one of the nations smallest states that means next to nothing in the november elections, but has made itself important enough to all but weed out candidates like ron paul and bill richardson and joe biden (who got beat by write-ins).
meh, i guess that's enough complaining for tonight.
--jb--
posted by jb at
1/09/2008 08:42:00 PM
1 Comments:
I'm severly politicklish. I like the fact that there will be a legitimate fight between Obama and Clinton. I like that John Edwards got a little breath left in him, and he's going to fight for corporate takedown. I hope they snatch him up as VP. Mike Huckabee is dangerous, like monkey knife fight dangerous. McCain got a shot in the arm, but I don't think it'll matter. I don't want McCain to get the nomination, because on multiple occasions of considered voting for him. Then he decided to be all Republican.
All in all, it doesn't matter, because I'm an overeducated white boy living in poor economic housing, working paycheck to paycheck without viable healthcare options, my dreams literally being sat on by corporate fatcats and lazy artistes locked in battle to see who gets to crush up the pills in the pablum, and sunk deeper in debt than the worst Pitfall player.
But don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
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