I hate this. I hate it so much.
Haven't been posting about politics much lately. A lot of it just makes me angry and sad, and not in any terribly enlightening or original way. So here's a flyby on anger and sadness:
"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
-- Sarah Palin, North Carolina rally, October 16, 2008
And then you look at really misniformed people saying really ignorant things:
I know this isn't all Republicans. I know they picked out the choicest quotes and all, but it's really hard not to listen to Palin's speeches, hell - to listen to McCain at the debate, and think that this is the vote they're hoping to get. This is what they're proud to be winning with.
It's disappointing. It should be better than that. I had so much hope for a McCain-Obama race. I really almost thought they'd talk about ideas and issues, and stay away from the smears and the culture-war-crap. I wanted better. As Colin Powel said in his truely great, makes-me-forgive-the-load-of-crap-on-Iraq level great, speech endorsing Obama (full text, video):
"This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
But apparently I live in fake America, so what do I know.
"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
-- Sarah Palin, North Carolina rally, October 16, 2008
And then you look at really misniformed people saying really ignorant things:
Click to viewI know this isn't all Republicans. I know they picked out the choicest quotes and all, but it's really hard not to listen to Palin's speeches, hell - to listen to McCain at the debate, and think that this is the vote they're hoping to get. This is what they're proud to be winning with.
It's disappointing. It should be better than that. I had so much hope for a McCain-Obama race. I really almost thought they'd talk about ideas and issues, and stay away from the smears and the culture-war-crap. I wanted better. As Colin Powel said in his truely great, makes-me-forgive-the-load-of-crap-on-Iraq level great, speech endorsing Obama (full text, video):
"This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
But apparently I live in fake America, so what do I know.