(this was a response i wrote a few minutes ago to an email i got from a philosopher i know telling me that the republickens have somehow managed to put together a more "entertaining" ticket than the dems this year, and since being entertaining goes a long, long way in the nation that brought you trucknutz, this situation could prove disastrous for those of us hoping that the world will change its destructive course so we can return to simply being self-minded, ordinary-yet-proud world citizens like we always used to be)
Damn, that's a bucket of ice-cold water down my back! I don't get that perspective out here, nor have I had time to read up on these developments. Just saw the photo of Palin with the poor red-nosed reindeer...maybe the Dems can frame her as the woman who wants to slay Rudolph! She'll kill Christmas!!
Anyway, I'm a firm believer in the fact that Americans look for entertainment value and put their money wherever they've got the best chance to be entertained (and sometimes that means direct entertainment from the clowns in office, other times just getting more money in their pockets due to policies favorable to their particular profile), so if the Obama camp looks lackluster, they'll be in trouble. Still, though, for the average Joe, I've gotta think it comes down to McCain or Obama taking you by the hand, and whose hand would you want grabbing yours for the next four years. I guess John Kerry's hand woulda been like a limp, dead fish in your hand, and so people went for Bush's "firmness" (albeit false and inflated, protected). This time I can't get the perspective so far as to whose hand appears steadier between the two candidates.
It's already beyond disastrous, with this bumbling maniac and his squadron of death at the helm these past 8 years, but to have another Republican slither on into his office chair, and keep it warm with his warring G.O.P. ass for another 4 or 8 years, really seems unfathomable to me. Why wouldn't the American people be ready for a change? What the hell could they possibly be in favor of amidst all the ruin that's been brought on the country, even forgetting about what's been done abroad, as Americans are so good at doing. Surely people can't generally feel confident in the soundness of this administration's economic impact, can they? To me it seems like gas prices alone should warrant impeachment in the average Joe's mind, and if that's not enough, then that other little issue of the economy being crippled once again (hmmm...smells like the last recession, which just happened to brew out of war-mongering, plundering Reaganomics). The stake's been driven into my albeit hardened, cynical political heart, but having a Republican replace the current despot would bring a mallet thundering down on top of its head, and if that be its fate, I don't see how the stake could be removed. We'd have to elect Gandhi or the Dalai Lama (he's free, isn't he?) to mend the cavernous wounds.
Anyway, fingers crossed across the globe for a drop of justice to land in this bucket of piss that is the White House.
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