Destination: Chicago
My sponsor and I are going to the city tonight. Part of me thinks "We must be nuts." But most of me thinks "I LIVE 40 MILES AWAY FROM THE BIGGEST ELECTION RESULTS PARTY EVER - I'm nuts NOT to go." We don't have tickets to Obama's big rally, but Grant Park is huge and we are crashing that party.
Watching CNN and the rest of the cable news channels is so dull. It's mind numbing right now. So instead I'll watch the View because Elizabeth is clearly the most entertaining person on television right now. She's such a fucking spaz. No, I don't think Obama necessarily has this "in the bag" and a bunch of things could happen between now and when the polls close, but stop with your propaganda, Elizabeth. The Left have all but stopped saying this is going to be a landslide -- we're aware of the fact that everyone has a right to vote before we call this shit. Stop calling US delusional, poisoned Kool-aid drinking Communists when you're still harping about Rev. Wright and how Sarah Palin has obviously gotten a bad rap in the press because of sexist bastards like MSNBC, as if that makes a fucking difference, especially at this point. Hope is fine. Wanting something is fine. But still attempting to vilify the other side and pretending it's because "this isn't fair" how the media has handled this election, rather than what's really going on: You're panicking because you know it's not looking good for you -- KNOCK IT OFF. No one is buying it anymore. Don't spout this resentment and animosity in the name of "fairness" and still attempt to put on an air of hopefulness. If you were so confident about this, Elizabeth, you wouldn't be braying like a banshee right now over some kind of unfair racial motivation. Fuck you, Elizabeth. Stop discounting what this country has gone through to get here and please, for the love of all possible gods, stop attempting to push our candidate into the mud because yours chose to spend all of his time there.
Someone recently made a statement to me after a meeting. That he thinks it's been hard for our country to heal after recent elections, even more so than after the Civil War. I don't know if that's true, I don't know if there's a way of researching that to find out. But I do think there are a lot of huge divisions, and furthermore there is this absurd bullheaded willfulness on both sides about patching them up. Everyone TALKS about bringing the country back together, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of action. I don't have a solution for it, but I have personally made an effort to not think of one side as Good and one side as Bad. It's hard not to sometimes, with the way McCain/Palin have gone so low in a lot of respects, but I TRY.
What sucks is that I'm getting sick. Runny nose. Sore throat. Body aches. RAWR. So I'm fighting it off with salt water and tea.
Anyway. VOTE VOTE VOTE. Maybe you'll see me on TV in Grant Park tonight. Probably not, but HOLY CRAP I'M GOING TO BE THERE!
Watching CNN and the rest of the cable news channels is so dull. It's mind numbing right now. So instead I'll watch the View because Elizabeth is clearly the most entertaining person on television right now. She's such a fucking spaz. No, I don't think Obama necessarily has this "in the bag" and a bunch of things could happen between now and when the polls close, but stop with your propaganda, Elizabeth. The Left have all but stopped saying this is going to be a landslide -- we're aware of the fact that everyone has a right to vote before we call this shit. Stop calling US delusional, poisoned Kool-aid drinking Communists when you're still harping about Rev. Wright and how Sarah Palin has obviously gotten a bad rap in the press because of sexist bastards like MSNBC, as if that makes a fucking difference, especially at this point. Hope is fine. Wanting something is fine. But still attempting to vilify the other side and pretending it's because "this isn't fair" how the media has handled this election, rather than what's really going on: You're panicking because you know it's not looking good for you -- KNOCK IT OFF. No one is buying it anymore. Don't spout this resentment and animosity in the name of "fairness" and still attempt to put on an air of hopefulness. If you were so confident about this, Elizabeth, you wouldn't be braying like a banshee right now over some kind of unfair racial motivation. Fuck you, Elizabeth. Stop discounting what this country has gone through to get here and please, for the love of all possible gods, stop attempting to push our candidate into the mud because yours chose to spend all of his time there.
Someone recently made a statement to me after a meeting. That he thinks it's been hard for our country to heal after recent elections, even more so than after the Civil War. I don't know if that's true, I don't know if there's a way of researching that to find out. But I do think there are a lot of huge divisions, and furthermore there is this absurd bullheaded willfulness on both sides about patching them up. Everyone TALKS about bringing the country back together, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of action. I don't have a solution for it, but I have personally made an effort to not think of one side as Good and one side as Bad. It's hard not to sometimes, with the way McCain/Palin have gone so low in a lot of respects, but I TRY.
What sucks is that I'm getting sick. Runny nose. Sore throat. Body aches. RAWR. So I'm fighting it off with salt water and tea.
Anyway. VOTE VOTE VOTE. Maybe you'll see me on TV in Grant Park tonight. Probably not, but HOLY CRAP I'M GOING TO BE THERE!