Amerika is fucked but experts say you guys will come out of this credit-crunch mess before Europe does!

I <3 Obama

Because our economy is currently fucked, McCain is going to be crushed. I would bet my life savings on it, which currently is in the double digits. ;-)

I don't recall, since the first election I voted in when Clinton first took office, such an intense hunger for a change. Any change. People want it so much, that the McCain campaign adopted the "change" slogan and McCain has worked to distance himself from the current administration. If the new republican nominee is doing that, it's a sign that things, in general, need to change. For the past 8 years we've been lied to and deceived by a self serving and greedy and downright reckless administration who doesn't give a shit, never gave a shit, and never will give a shit. D.C. has always been somewhat rotten will continue to be somewhat rotten no matter who takes office, but enough's enough. I think it's really exciting to see people care enough to be excited about politics. It's not a patriotic thing, at least not for me - but for lots of people it's a signal to the end of a terrible 8 years. And even though the economy is in the shitter and lots of things need fixing - it's nice to be excited about something!

Since stash has late mornings and early afternoons free, he went down to the democratic headquarters this weekend in Laguna Beach to see if he could volunteer in some way shape or form. He was given the task of "canvasing" our precint (basically, knock on doors, hand out fliers and remind other dems to vote on election day). It's a strange and sort of scary thing that he was given a list several pages thick of ALL registered voters from republicans to independants to dems and their ages... a scary thing in the hands of stash if you think about it. :lol:

I've usually been the one who is more politically minded, so it's cool to see he was moved to get involved on his own. He's usually not motivated to do anything like this and he's not the type to go knocking on doors AT ALL - not when he can be reading a book, playing a video game inbetween shuffling off to the doctors, whatever - so in my mind it's just one example of how important this election is not just to us but for a lot of people who are hopeful that something better is on the horizon. Even if that 'something better' takes a while to reach.

Proposition 8 (on the California ballot - I will be voting No) is about as important to me as who gets sworn into office next year. But I'll save that for another rant. :P

YAY STASH!!!

That's awesome. :)

Whirls, I definitely agree with you on the need for change--I just don't understand why the need for change wasn't felt in 2004 enough to avoid four more years...

Hm, maybe there was a "feel" in 2004

http://www.rollingst...election_stolen

http://www.bloomberg...MQbI&refer=home

How the hell is every market in the world failing???

Whoa, wtf? Massive global hysteria is to ensue.

The End Is Nigh

Obama is the only intelligent choice.

I can't even comprehend why anyone would think differently this time around. I really can't.

What are the thoughts of our friends outside North America?

At the moment I'd agree with you. But I guess as times goes by reality will show her face very soon after final elections (in november, right?) because just a "yes we can" slogan won't sort things out. Republicans are never a choice, that's for sure.

Btw, why didn't Bill O'Reilly stand for election :D, He'd have a lot more "charism" :lol: His slogan would be: "We'll do it live!"

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ln-cBFanW9I

I heard some texan dude on the radio and you can just imagine with the little redneck accent, he said this:

''WE NEED SOME MONEY IN THIS COUNTRY, WE NEED TO GIVE IT BACK TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE!''

I fucking lol'd.

There is no correct political party, thers just one that's better than the others. I can't imagine that there's anyone who can fully agree with the full platform in society (besides the party members themselves, but even then....).

The Canadian election is tomorrow. We have no one who can properly run Canada running in the election. I'm still deciding who I will vote for.

The Republican party in the U.S. right now is fucking shameful. The fact that they are inciting so much anger toward Barack Obama is irresponsible and will be completely unforgivable if it leads to a fucking redneck psycho assassinating him.

There has already been cries of "terrorist" and "kill him" at rallies for Sarah Palin, and nothing much better at rallies for McCain.

There really isn't anything positive to say about either political party right now. The only reason I would rather have Obama win at this point is because of his skin color, hoping it might make some significant change socially.

Csar... Csar Csar Csar... Bill O'Reilly? Are you serious? :lol: The guy is a total crackpot, haha!

Bosco - sadly a lot of people will be voting based on skin color. And not because they are hoping it would make a significant change socially. People are scared and the current economic climate, the conspiracy theories and mudslinging will only fan the flames higher til Nov. 4. The fringe is certainly becoming more vocal, visual and more mainstream. I guess this is what the US is made of and it makes me feel shame... I'm sure there's a price on Obama's head, as Pooter said if he gets elected and some wingnut assassinates him... Blood on Palin's hands as far as I'm concerned as she seems to take some sick pleasure in allowing the type of behavior at her rallies continue the way it has. McCain's "Obama-is-a-decent-man" schpeel is too little too late. It's obvious he's let Palin and his wife do all his dirty work. What a maverick.

I had a phone call from hell with a customer today and got stuck listening to her right-wing diatribe. I mean, she was pleasant enough when making small talk but then she started in with her politically charged tirade for no good reason. I don't know this person from Adam, and I didn't call her up to chat about politicis and hear about her railing against "those shitty democrats", how scary it is that "we might be having a shady Muslim in office soon" and listen to how fucking great she thinks Sarah Palin is and how oh-so-horrible it is that democrats are protesting republican rallies holding up signs saying Pain is a dumb cunt. What was highly amusing is that even though she did all the talking, she couldn't frame an argument to save her life. It was all "Obama is a terrorist, I've never been so scared of an election in all my life, Rah rah Reagan, Jimmy Carter was a "shitty man" etc - she was all over the place. Better still is she said she doesn't vote on ideals or issues - she votes with her wallet (I called her because her credit card declined a large number of puchases, hahaha. The kicker was she said she doesn't vote with her emotions but man, she was getting pretty riled up and emotional. I know she was trying to goad me into articulating my opinion but I just stayed quiet and let her rant. I finally told her after 10 minutes of fuckwittery that I did not feel comfortable talking politics on the job, end of story.

At least she was nice about it, and apologized for taking up my time. There's so many more people like her and that's scary.

What should be an exciting time in this nation's history is scary indeed. Calling Palin a dumb cunt has nothing on this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/bKUovpF9LWU

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^^^^^^

California Secularists !AGAINST! Baby Murdering White Men for President

Oh, and SARAH PALIN EATS BABIES!

Hey! my gas is at $3.39 right now, Woohoo!

Anybody lower?

$0.95/L here!