I love the smell of fairness and balance in the morning.

[forsquilis]

I'm not big on Obama. I'm not against him, I just can't seem to muster up screaming enthusiasm for him. But I'm sure that there are plenty of people on my flist who would enjoy this commentary from the chicks at Disgrasian, about Fox News' hysterical reporting of Barack and Michelle Obama's "terrorist fist bump".  I always think the best way to

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[forsquilis]

I just have total election burnout. Back when the hanging chads were still being counted in November 2000, I happened upon a discussion of, "If Gore wins, who will be the Democratic nominee in 2008?" and my brain imploded. It was the most worthless time-wasting discussion ever, IMO, since the people who are front-runners likely would never have come up. That was the moment that politics jumped the shark for me: I can't take the non-stop campaigning and non-stop discussion of it. Give me Canada's electoral process. Please.

I know, too, that a few times when people have talked about Obama changing things, I've had flashbacks to 1992, when my friends and I all fervently believed Clinton was going to change things. It's so fun to get old and cynical... I just haven't gotten into any of the candidates. I didn't even bother voting in my primary because there wasn't one that I could go YES S/HE IS THE ONE!

The only politician I've ever really gotten into is Marcy Kaptur, who didn't even represent my district. But she defeated an incumbent with very little funding on her side to get her seat, and I think she really cares about her constituents. And when some GOP members tried to twist something she said to make it look like she was pro-terrorist and anti-American, she pretty much refused to back down and told them to quit smearing her rather than retracting her words out of fear, which takes a lot of guts in the current climate. I've got respect for the current Ohio governor, Ted Strickland, too. The previous governor was a Taft and pretty much just hung around, banking on his family name to keep him in office. Strickland, though, takes smoke breaks with the peons in the support staff and asks them what they think of his policies, so it sounds like he too is interested in helping people rather than servicing corporate donors.