you cannot be serious

so, i made the mistake of watching parts of the vice-presidential debate on a day that i actually had work to do.

i followed that mistake up by going to the alumni website of my high school and looking on the political fora.

for people reading this, i went to high school in central pennsylvania. i currently live in south africa. there may be a causal link between the two.

before i watched the bits and pieces [ok, the first 20 minutes or so] of the vice-presidential debate, i watched the saturday night live mockery of it. and yes, gwen ifill should not have been the moderator for the very reasons that snl pointed out. [that said, she also references colin powell in her book, but really. come on?]

i really didn't think that palin had done the things that her doppelganger had implied on SNL. but then i watched some clips from david letterman, who, if you haven't heard, is on some serious bitch shit after mccain stood him for when he "suspended" his campaign. that was the first sign of "are you serious?"

and then i saw parts of the debate, the real actual live debate, and spent most of the rest of the day in the fetal position. someone tell me why this election is so close. oh, right, he's a sekrit muslim ayrab nigger. because, you know, that's what it is. anyone who tells you differently is LYING.

i can't understand the american public's desire to have a president "just like them" um, no. i want my president to be ten times smarter than *me* [this requires effort.] i want him to be able to get by in at least four of the six official languages of the united nations so he can sit down and have a chat with various leaders, man to man without even interpreters in the room. i want him to be able to find the most capable people and line them up for cabinet positions.

now, with the above paragraph, note that i didn't say "for what kind of policies". if you want good, or evil, that's irrelevant. just give me COMPETENT. or, put another way, with the bush presidency, you still had to respect cheney's gangsta. but palin? um, no. not going to happen.

i just had a nice long talk with my favorite aunt [and i've got 8 of them that are still living, so i can pick and choose] and she doesn't want to vote for obama either, for many of the same reasons that i don't. [the short version, this is 1976 all over again.] she's going to vote. she lives in delaware, too, which is allegedly solidly blue due to the whole joe biden thing.

it's funny -- while she told me to make sure that i voted, she also said that furriners have no place telling americans how to vote [yup, she said furriners, just like that]. "all of their people are living here, and you don't see us running and diving and swimming to live there." she says this with zero trace of irony, in a mixture of english and spanish. i was amused, but i got her point.

it's a shame that condi was NSA during the first bush term. she would have been by far the better veep candidate for mccain -- or she would have run her own self. i'd have voted for condi. srsly. she'd have to explain why she didn't finish the course of invisalign, though.

i'm just tired -- and something else that is tiring me is the mouthbreathing contingent on the alumni website for my high school. ok ok ok, maybe mouthbreathers is too strong.

just dealing with them is reminding me of the unwillingness -- not inability, although i'm sure there's a lot of that there, too, but sheer unwillingness -- to critically think about this election. now, as some of you know, i've picked apart both obama and mccain on a few websites, but since the freepers from my highschool only choose to pick on obama, that leaves me with just mccain to pick on.

and, of course, i become accused of being biased and want to vote for him because i'm black. um, no. sorry, it's *because* i'm black i don't want to vote for obama. and because you're not black, you don't understand why. [my aunt, in less than a minute "i don't want to vote for obama because they're going to blame this man for everything and we'll never get a black president that can do things." my aunt doesn't really read in english and has thus not seen any blog posts i have written, yet has basically said something i have felt for a while now. hm.]


it's 4am. i need to sleep. i just can't beleive this shit. ugh.

as usual, a white woman might mean that black man misses out. for once, this isn't of his own doing.

so, the palin poll bounce. wtf, over?

john mccain has been taken out of the presidency equation. i don't think that was his intent, but that's going to be the reality.

it really goes to show that when it comes out to "inexperience" a white woman really does usually get a bigger benefit of the doubt than a black man. ok, this election isn't for 60 or so more days, but for a bounce to be *this big* means entirely what i've just said.

so let's say that the election goes the way of the current poll numbers. what will it mean? mccain wins, and then dies in office, and we have president palin. this will all but ensure that hillary clinton will walk away from her senate seat and run for the presidency. depending on who is governor, they may make a special dispensation for her to get her seat back should she lose. now, the period from 2008 to 2012 is one where things will get much, much worse before they get better. the democrats would mitigate palin economic [huh?] and foreign [lulz] policy somewhat, but palin would still get to stack the supreme court. lovely.

2012 leads to a clinton/obama ticket [like she would pick anyone else], versus palin/watts. ha ha ha. [just kidding]. who wins? hillary, who will be able to undo all of the damage except the supreme court. shame. hilary serves a term or two, and we have president obama. finally.

the dollar will make a bit of a comeback [which means i could stay here, but the rand is in huge trouble in 2009, so i'll be fine anyway], but the rest of the fallout from the subprime crises, including the take over of freddie mac and fannie mae, as well as a few caucasian conflicts, will have the united states in some hot mess. i also see nawlins getting a direct hit in the next term, and we'll see how THAT is handled.

but palin v clinton will be a true sign that the united states will have slid into the theocratic mayhem of bangladesh, which have two women running for president, neither of whom got there because of their political skill, but both of them having arrived there due to either a husband or an old man. amazing.

i wonder what mccain/palin supreme court interference is going to look like.

any ideas? (and "we'll never know because obama is going to win" is not a valid response.)

scariness

the earlier post about why i don't want obama to win this election?

judith warner has said basically the same thing with regard to palin (viz women).

at least i know it isn't just me.