OK, this has already been posted everywhere, but on the off-chance that you haven’t seen it yet, SEE IT NOW:
(If you haven’t seen the Obama video of which this is a spoof, you can watch that here.)
Christ, I forgot what it was like to REALLY have a cold. I’ve had some mini-colds this year, some colds-manqué, if you will, but this is my first kick-you-in-the-ass cold in a while, and it SUCKS. I’m slowly recovering, but yesterday I pretty much felt like I was going to die all day long, and you know what’s AWESOME when you feel like death warmed over? Watching a toddler! No, I kid: it really is no fun whatsoever. Fortunately (?) she’s sick, too, so we were both pretty low key. By which I mean we spent a shocking percentage of the day slumped over on the sofa watching Elmo’s World and Teletubbies. Well: the Hatchling watched them and I kind of dozed. Qualitee parenting is my watchword!
Today I felt semi-human, so at 6:30 pm I trekked on over to my polling place and holy CRAP were there a lot of people there! It was pretty cool standing in line with this array of races, classes, ages, backgrounds (I live in a very diverse district), many of whom were caucusing for the first time. Everyone seemed excited to be there, to be participating. The people running the caucus were completely unprepared for the numbers that showed up – they ran out of ballots and had to hand people slips of torn-off paper; they had people signing in on notebooks; they had to quickly move the caucus itself to a larger room to accommodate the crowds. Over 500 people showed up at my caucusing place, and overwhelmingly voted for Obama. (I voted for Clinton, but will very happily vote for Obama in the national election should that be my option.) About 100 people stuck around for the actual caucus, where it was nice (but not too surprising) to see that I live in a pretty progressive district: we passed resolutions in favor of universal health care, increased funding for education, civil unions for gay couples, and abolishing the electoral college (!). All in all, a very satisfying experience in civic duty.
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I admit it: I’m already getting election fatigue. I honestly DO NOT CARE which of the top two democratic candidates gets the nod. Really! I will be all too happy to vote for either one of them! I’m just so tired of the campaigning and trying to keep track of who’s gone more stupidly negative this week. I really don’t know what I’ll do come Tuesday. Flip a coin? Eeeny-meeny-miny-mo?
But I’ll tell you what, I’m just enough of a contrarian that reading stuff like this makes me want to vote for Hillary JUST TO SHOW THEM. A sampling of some of the slogans available on everything from bumper stickers to tee-shirts:
“Just vote for the bitch”
“Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife for president,”
“No Penis, No Problems”
“H08!”
“This Woman Scares Me”
“Anyone But Her ’08”
“Even Bill Doesn’t Want Me,”
“Stop Mad Cow,”
“Stop the Beast”
“Two fat thighs, two small breasts and a bunch of left wings.”
“Wanna See Hillary Run? Throw Rocks at Her!”
“I Wish Hillary Had Married O.J.”
Kind of makes you feel sick, doesn’t it?
For those of you who are interested in such things, and live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, John Edwards is in town tonight:
Event with John Edwards
Jan 29, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Carpenters Union Hall
710 Olive St.
St. Paul, Minn.
http://www.johnedwards.com/events/rsvp/20080129-stpaul
If we didn’t have ECFE tonight, I’d probably go. I’m still waffling on whom to caucus for come Tuesday, and Edwards has long been my favorite. If any of my readers go, post a review in comments, will ya? Anyone seen Edwards live before?
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You know how sometimes, when your mom has taken a whole week off from her extremely busy career to watch your kid just so you can have some dedicated writing time and jumpstart the massive revisions you need to do on your dissertation and you aren’t sleeping well because that’s how your stupid, self-defeating brain handles stress and when you sit down in front of your computer you have one of those sessions where you write four sentences and then delete them because they’re crap and then write four different sentences and then delete them because they’re also crap and that’s kind of the pattern of your day?
Yeah. That was yesterday. Kind of like beating your head against a brick wall. Today is going a little better.
Other things that might make you feel like you’re beating your head against a brick wall:
1. Harry Reid – who is, let’s remember, a Democrat – who’s been giving Repubbbs a total pass on anything they say they’re going to filibuster, has decided that his fellow Democrats don’t deserve the same treatment. WTF, Harry?
2. Did you know that Hillary Clinton is a CUNT? Isn’t that, like, the most hilarious observation you’ve ever heard, like, in your ENTIRE LIFE? Also brilliant? Christ. As Shakes says, personally, I’d consider it a compliment (if I didn’t know the source).
3. You know what’s even funnier than calling Clinton a cunt? Making fun of Heath Ledger for dying! Especially if you can do it while gay-bashing! Whoo, that’s hilarious.
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Hillary takes New Hampshire, sayeth just about everyone. I feel like it would have been a bigger deal for Clinton to lose this than for Obama to win it, so this just evens it out on the Dem side. Though it seems that Edwards is well and truly done. Which I’d feel pretty crappy about, except I’m still pissed at him for his sexist remarks about Clinton’s tearing up. (Why you gotta play me like that, John?)
It’s gonna be a wild ride, y’all.
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So, Obama pulled off Iowa. Good for him, I say. It will be veeeeeeeerrrrry interesting to see how this whole thing shapes up. I’m particularly interested to see how the Clinton camp spins this. I’m not sure what to make of the fact that Democratic Iowans went for the least conventional of the top three candidates, while Republican Iowans chose the MOST SCARY candidate out there. Except that Republicans are teh dumb, and that ain’t exactly a newsflash in these parts.
On a lighter note, here’s how to (apparently) make me!
| The Recipe For a Snarky Squab |
 3 parts Fun
2 parts Talent 1 part Brilliance Splash of Sass Sip slowly on the beach |
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