McCain: still fusty, out-of-touch, squishy, and gives the feeling that he's more interested in saying whatever he thinks the powers-that-be want to hear so that he can get himself elected than in doing what is right for this country.
Palin: Scary. Not in the way whatsername, Clinton, was scary, but more scary in some ways. She and I have so little in common. We're both moms and we both work, but it pretty much ends there.
Obama: I dunno, but he just seems like a mannequin. I cannot believe that man has any original thought and that he's the pretty-faced, beautifully intoned storefront for some mysterious Democrap powerhouse. I have difficulty believing that what he says he'd like to do is what will actually happen. But, regardless, he represents the Democrap party and as such is to be despised and mocked.
Biden: I think his role is to be the Bad Boy and beyond that, he's irrelevant.
Disasters (Ike, train wreck, etc.): I am sorry, in a "we're all humans together" way, that these things have happened and a piece of my heart goes out to those who are suffering as a result.
's'all for now. Gotta go take photos of some things, take care of some chores, etc.
Can't disagree with any of that. Don't think either set is gonna do much good for the country. Have a great day -- I'm going shopping! (It's patriotic, ya know.)
Sometimes someone goes into a fit about how this is the most important and defining election of our time! and I just chuckle. Bah. Bunch a mediokes. Obama is interesting, at least, but he's two or three election cycles too young. Palin interests me as being totally normal, a true outsider, a strong woman who everyone hates because she doesn't fit the NOW mold. Her personal beliefs don't matter to me yet. I can't see her becoming President and then strong enough to put her ideological picks on the SC. Biden doesn't make the news enough for me to know what the hell he's doing. McCain is cool but now I wish even more he'd won the nomination in '00. Oh well. Hey, evidently commenting works! (I write that not knowing if it does, but if it doesn't, no one will ever know I was wrong. Hee!)
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Parties basically suck imo. They aren't much different from football fanclubs. Where is the "Issues" Party? It isn't about what the country needs, it's about what each person's gang needs to have happen for them and the hell with anyone else. So voting happens and electors decide and the backroom gang makes stuff happen to its benefit anyway. Thank what gods that be for gravity and a few other things we can more or less count on to behave in upfront predictable ways.
Don writes: Sometimes someone goes into a fit about how this is the most important and defining election of our time! and I just chuckle. Bah. Bunch a mediokes.
Well, they see "race" as in "first black prez" and it makes it important for some of them. Others believe the words his keepers have put into his mouth and think "Oh yeah, finally!" and it's way important because of that.
Obama is interesting, at least, but he's two or three election cycles too young.
Agree he needs to put a little meat on his bones, and time will tell if he is the same man next election cycle as he is now. Unless, of course, he does win in which case we'll see if he really is gonna walk his talk.
Palin interests me as being totally normal, a true outsider, a strong woman who everyone hates because she doesn't fit the NOW mold. Her personal beliefs don't matter to me yet. I can't see her becoming President and then strong enough to put her ideological picks on the SC.
"totally normal" as a true outsider? ITA about the hatred cuz she doesn't fit the mold but don't forget Clinton was truly hated because she DOES fit the mold. Women usually cannot win in these things (opinion polls) because if they're too strong and man-like, they're not womanly enough and if they're too strong and womanly, they're showing weak womanly traits that go against all we wimmins have striven for, yadda.
I like the old Soccer/Hockey Mom and Pitbull joke she re-used, and I'm not one of those rabid femi-nazis who think she did Womankind a disservice by playing to the stereotypes (and, hell, it's true! Same with Soccer/Hockey dads, when you get down to it except they don't wear lipstick)).
Her personal values, though -- they're Bush's. You see where his strong adherence to his personal values lead us, right?
I should note that I totally did not want Bush in office, back in '00 nor again in '04.
McCain is cool but now I wish even more he'd won the nomination in '00.
I wish he had won then. Partly because back then he really did seem to hold true to my own expectations for where this country ought to be headed, and partly because that would've spared us the GW Bush Years. Also because I think he became more oily and flip-floppy since then. Had he been prez back then, I'm of the opinion he would have formed his own spine and stayed the moderate-but-non-squishy course.
'course I have no data to back me up. ;-)