My mother is in major denial about Hillary. She feels that she's being pressured to concede because she's a woman, and the party establishment wouldn't be so "rude" if she was a man. She thinks Hillary's speech was great, by the way. And that Obama should have waited four or eight years, because it was "her turn." Yes, no joke ( Read more... )

(mind devoid of coherent thoughts ( Read more... )

From the lovely victoriabloom:

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Okay, not really. I wish.

But in the meantime, here is this YouTube gem. The link came from obama_2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu39I5QOUc

I have no words. XD

While no one on my f-list is from New Hampshire, if anyone reading this is, please vote tomorrow. There are many forms of apathy that disgust me. The worst is doing absolutely nothing when people are in desperate need (coughcoughDarfurcoughcough), but not voting when you are perfectly capable of doing so is up there. And while I'd love it if you ( Read more... )

Iowa caucuses tonight! *breathes into paper bag ( Read more... )

Eek! I haven't posted anything remotely political since Jo outed Dumbledore! This isn't really going to be coherent, but here a few thoughts I've been having lately ( Read more... )

Way back in ye olde 2002, before the war began:

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I love you, Barack.

So I was talking with my friend, who is seventeen and a senior, when we were on a school trip this weekend. We both like The Colbert Report, and she plans on voting Democrat when she is old enough. We happened to be discussing the 2008 Democratic field, and I mentioned that I am an Obama fangirl. Here is how our conversation went ( Read more... )