Quote for the Day

"The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America." - Frank Rich

Today is the Day, Here's Why

I haven't blogged in two weeks. There's alot of reasons, but really the fact is I ran out of things to say. If in the past two weeks a mind was still not made up as to the best choice for this country, I don't know what more can be said to force a direction.

Casting my vote, I reflected on the reasons I supported Obama throughout the past four years (yes, since his convention speech). I had a long post planned out in my head, giving the rationale for casting my vote, and about the people that had influenced me in my life and given me the knowledge in my soul that this man was the right man for this country: my father, Joe Strummer, my eighth grade history teacher, and countless others who lead me to the belief that the strength of this country is not only the voice each individual citizen has, but the shared beliefs in the goodness of our fellow man that gives weight to that voice not just for the present, but for our collective future. The post was planned in my head to perfection, or at least to the level of perfection an aspiring writer can achieve.

And then I decided not to write it. Because I read something that said it more perfectly than I ever could. I'm going to shut up again now, and wait until tomorrow to post. I just want all my friends to read the link below. I hope it moves you, as much as it moved me.

Read this, and know hope.

Who's the Highest Paid McCain Staffer?

You've got to be freaking kidding me.

A Poem for the Times

From Gina Myers "Behind the R":

Rentals make homeowners
nervous. As if everyone
could own a home.
Or for that matter
have health insurance.
The soft politics
of the uninsured youth.
We won't raise
our voices too loud.
In the jungle
of the new economy,
victory will be
for those create
disorder
without loving it.

Disavowal

Todd Palin seems not to have gotten the message either:




That sign says "Charles Manson Was a Community Organizer".

Awaiting the Right Outrage

Voter fraud by a Republican.

C'mon boys and girls. Is it principle or politics?

McCain Sleaze Continued

A couple of things.

1. If that call was the whole truth, and not a Michael Moore'eque framing of it, then yes, it could be construed as legitimate. But it's not, and what bothers me most is McCain KNOWS it's not. But he's counting on those who hear it not knowing enough to think otherwise.

2. If McCain doesn't care about an old, washed up terrorist, then why does he mention him so much.

3. Barring 1+2, did he not get the message that this ISN'T working?

4. RE: The Lewis comments from the Obama campaign:

“Senator Obama does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. "But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night, as well as the baseless and profoundly irresponsible charges from his own running mate that the Democratic nominee for President of the United States ‘pals around with terrorists.’

"As Barack Obama has said himself, the last thing we need from either party is the kind of angry, divisive rhetoric that tears us apart at a time of crisis when we desperately need to come together. That is the kind of campaign Senator Obama will continue to run in the weeks ahead."

See John? They disassociated the remarks with you, and were condemning only the actions of your crowd. Stop beating your chest. You are not an aggrieved party here. When your supporters are caught on tape holding monkeys with Obama gear on them and yelling "Kill Him" and "Terrorist", yes, that is something that people are going to be angry about.