Election Reflection

I am so fucking sick of this election. Sick to death of it.

And yet I'm writing about it.

Maybe if I write a few thoughts down, they'll leave my brain and I'll be free to think about things that actually matter. Here goes...

Obama is dry, humorless, and will not change anything. I'm sorry to everyone who drank the kool-aid, but he won't. He's just like every other politician. Don't let the velvet voice or blank resume fool you.

McCain is dripping in desperation and actually thinks that women are stupid enough to accept Sarah Palin as a substitute for Hillary Clinton. McCain knows nothing about economics and fucked his chances by being on the wrong side of the bailout; elections are won on differences.

Biden has donated two thirds of a pittance to charity over the last few years and doesn't know when the Great Depression/Roosevelt presidency/proliferation of television happened.

Sarah Palin.

They're all clowns and I have no patience for any of them. The only thing worse is the media. Attention right wingers: Ayers doesn't fucking matter, guilt by association is a fallacy and the connection itself is tenuous. Attention left wingers: drop the paranoia about racial politics, McCain saying Obama isn't "one of us" didn't convince anyone that Obama is black... everybody knows it.

And worse than the media (I know, I know what I said), is the fucking voters. Yeah, that's right, you fucking people. Everybody's got a fucking opinion this election and no one can restrain themselves. Everybody is a goddamn expert but only on the issues that support their candidate. No one seeks out fair perspective. No one explores the richness and complexity out there. Everyone is spoon-fed content tailored to their particular political ideology with no potential risk of giving any intellectual credibility to the opposing viewpoint. This way everyone can sleep comfortably in their beds without any fear that some damning fact might change their fragile minds. Pathetic.

Sigh. It'll all be over soon. Then we can go back to whatever it was we did before we devoted two fucking years to this horseshit.