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So, I know this former armchair Republican, okay?
Two years ago he raved in a emotionally disengaged way (the only way certain "independents" rave - you learn to recognize it for what it is with a little training). Anyways, he stated, with a lazy voice, but provocatively hopeful gleam in his eye, that he probably would never vote for a woman, and then he went on with phlegmatically smacking Hilary Clinton with arguments clearly validated by a nasal & unemotional tone.
This incident stayed engraved in my brain, not so much because of the man himself, he is after all too common to really jump and hop about, but because his 10 year old daughter was in the room, listening. I wondered how it would feel being a daughter of such a man - and having two younger brothers at that, to whom he payed a lot more attention, even if the attention was mostly in the form of corrections.
Anyway, I digress. Fast forward to today, and this dude has changed parties, he is now gonna vote for Obama. Note that he still would not have voted for a penisless Clinton.
Lots of people in circles around him congratulate him for being so politically conscious.
So I observe this, while listening to all these angry young democrat guys who fume at these "dumb", "politically dishonest" and bitter middle aged females who are going to be the ruin of Barak Obama because they may vote for McCain after previously supporting Clinton.
Did everyone get the memo?
In case you missed it: It is the fault of female middle aged ex-supporters of Hilary if Obama doesn't win the election.
Goshdarnit, yet another sin of the middle aged female, apart from being obviously brainless and unattractive, she will also be the ruin of the greatest civilization of the world.
Newsflash: If Hilary would have been a candidate and lost the election (more likely than Obama losing), there would have been a certain percentage that would have switched party affiliation rather than voting for her. That's what happens in a highly polarized two party system folks, there is a shit-ton of people in the middle, with at best very weak sympathies for any of the two sides, they vote for the person more than anything else.
The good news is that in Obama's case, the group is not as big as media or the polls wants to make them. And ye angry young democratic men, remember, the more you loathe these vaguely outlined mother-figures and wrong-voters, the more you really piss off normal women with adept brains who simply understand that there are limits to how much a president, no matter how well spoken or well meaning, can change a fairly cumbersome system.
Think about that before the next foam-at-the-mouth rant about dumb, politically faithless bitches.
If you want your dude to win, contempt and contra-bitterness is not the way to go, trust me, I'm a fucking ORACLE on this matter.
Me? In the heat of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which I have observed bits and pieces of every day, I remembered what I miss the most politically.
I MISS: A Parliamentary System with proportional representation in a multiple party setting.
I miss it so much, with all its flaws and even at its worst, I still miss it, when I see this presidential system failure all around.
Shit, in such a system a Barak or a Hilary would not be such a huge hoopla. Not quite as huge.
In other news: The Jesus people have entered Denver, they're all around 16th Street with their anti abortion signs and anti gay signs. A special division of these have huge signs with mutilated fetuses and big letters saying WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT THIS, OBAMA?
Restaurant owners on this streak apologize constantly to their customers every time these happy campers wave their message in front of someones hamburger.
But the Hare Krishna Belly dancer got more spectators.
One guy carried a small sign saying we want bigger signs
One girl came skating down Colefax in just a thong and a bikini top, carrying a sign saying: More Ass - less Gas
And then we have the young men in McCain shirts stomping into Obama camp trying tobe martyred be beaten up, and being ignored instead.
I liked the Make Out Not War - buttons
The whole town smells like ass-sweat now, police are brutal and alert, fountains that never worked before are working now, I need to show two kinds of ID to be able to enter the Centennial building where I work..but today, on the third day, the policemen at the door just waived me through. Apparently I don't look like a terrorist anymore.
The city of Denver is suddenly an edgy politico with a meaningful stance, and it's making me hungry for cheese bagels and a chick flick. I might even watch the house bunny or something, as long as it's far far away.
Two years ago he raved in a emotionally disengaged way (the only way certain "independents" rave - you learn to recognize it for what it is with a little training). Anyways, he stated, with a lazy voice, but provocatively hopeful gleam in his eye, that he probably would never vote for a woman, and then he went on with phlegmatically smacking Hilary Clinton with arguments clearly validated by a nasal & unemotional tone.
This incident stayed engraved in my brain, not so much because of the man himself, he is after all too common to really jump and hop about, but because his 10 year old daughter was in the room, listening. I wondered how it would feel being a daughter of such a man - and having two younger brothers at that, to whom he payed a lot more attention, even if the attention was mostly in the form of corrections.
Anyway, I digress. Fast forward to today, and this dude has changed parties, he is now gonna vote for Obama. Note that he still would not have voted for a penisless Clinton.
Lots of people in circles around him congratulate him for being so politically conscious.
So I observe this, while listening to all these angry young democrat guys who fume at these "dumb", "politically dishonest" and bitter middle aged females who are going to be the ruin of Barak Obama because they may vote for McCain after previously supporting Clinton.
Did everyone get the memo?
In case you missed it: It is the fault of female middle aged ex-supporters of Hilary if Obama doesn't win the election.
Goshdarnit, yet another sin of the middle aged female, apart from being obviously brainless and unattractive, she will also be the ruin of the greatest civilization of the world.
Newsflash: If Hilary would have been a candidate and lost the election (more likely than Obama losing), there would have been a certain percentage that would have switched party affiliation rather than voting for her. That's what happens in a highly polarized two party system folks, there is a shit-ton of people in the middle, with at best very weak sympathies for any of the two sides, they vote for the person more than anything else.
The good news is that in Obama's case, the group is not as big as media or the polls wants to make them. And ye angry young democratic men, remember, the more you loathe these vaguely outlined mother-figures and wrong-voters, the more you really piss off normal women with adept brains who simply understand that there are limits to how much a president, no matter how well spoken or well meaning, can change a fairly cumbersome system.
Think about that before the next foam-at-the-mouth rant about dumb, politically faithless bitches.
If you want your dude to win, contempt and contra-bitterness is not the way to go, trust me, I'm a fucking ORACLE on this matter.
Me? In the heat of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which I have observed bits and pieces of every day, I remembered what I miss the most politically.
I MISS: A Parliamentary System with proportional representation in a multiple party setting.
I miss it so much, with all its flaws and even at its worst, I still miss it, when I see this presidential system failure all around.
Shit, in such a system a Barak or a Hilary would not be such a huge hoopla. Not quite as huge.
In other news: The Jesus people have entered Denver, they're all around 16th Street with their anti abortion signs and anti gay signs. A special division of these have huge signs with mutilated fetuses and big letters saying WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT THIS, OBAMA?
Restaurant owners on this streak apologize constantly to their customers every time these happy campers wave their message in front of someones hamburger.
But the Hare Krishna Belly dancer got more spectators.
One guy carried a small sign saying we want bigger signs
One girl came skating down Colefax in just a thong and a bikini top, carrying a sign saying: More Ass - less Gas
And then we have the young men in McCain shirts stomping into Obama camp trying to
I liked the Make Out Not War - buttons
The whole town smells like ass-sweat now, police are brutal and alert, fountains that never worked before are working now, I need to show two kinds of ID to be able to enter the Centennial building where I work..but today, on the third day, the policemen at the door just waived me through. Apparently I don't look like a terrorist anymore.
The city of Denver is suddenly an edgy politico with a meaningful stance, and it's making me hungry for cheese bagels and a chick flick. I might even watch the house bunny or something, as long as it's far far away.
