McCain and the Hockey Mom are desperately trying to scare people into voting for them, but tomorrow morning I am going to leave my pro-American house, get in my pro-American car, and drive to my pro-American voting precinct to exercise my early-voting rights and VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT, HOOAH!!!
I am a veteran, taxpayer, homeowner, worker, and many other demographic slots you can tuck people into. I’ve lived in many places in this country and they are all “pro-American” because they ARE ALL PART OF THESE UNITED STATES — west, east, north, and south, city and suburb and beyond.
I am voting for Obama as a president who can unite us again — with one another and with the world. I am voting for Obama because his approaches to the economy, health care, foreign relations, education, and the environment promise to repair the sad direction this country has taken in the last eight years.
A special request to disaffected Hillaryites: please join me in helping elect the president that Senator Clinton can join forces with to heal this country. When Palin was nominated I remember hearing that she was “energizing” the right, and I thought, hoo boy, she is also about to energize the LEFT, and that has proved true. I can’t imagine too many Hillary supporters voting for Palin — though I am sure CNN’s intrepid reporters will find a couple if they start looking — but if you are even remotely on the fence, remember that four years of McCain/Palin (which with McCain’s health is a generous guess) will be four more years of diminished world status, economic disarray, and continued assaults on the freedoms and benefits of being American.
(Not to dwell too much on the negative, but I really hate it when men select the least-qualified women they can find. I have spent my whole career handicapped by those femmetards.)
I am so excited about voting tomorrow that I may have to sleep with my Obama-Biden car magnet under my pillow!
Posted on this day, other years:
- Two retirements - 2014
- ALA's virtual members and their real obstacles - 2007
- Williamsburg Regional Library Staff Day Presentation - 2007
- "Waiter, a table for 17,000": The Midwinter Rooming Crisis - 2006
- Automated LCSH - 2004
- Open This, Open That, Drink Me: Get Real! - 2004
Not to dwell too much on the negative, but I really hate it when men select the least-qualified women they can find.
You said it, sister! I can’t believe anyone would think that Palin is the most qualified woman in the Republican Party. McClain lost what little respect I had for him by selecting her for VP.
My first ever reply to a blog posting, and I misspelled McCain.
Lynn, not to worry! typoooos are easy to make. Thinking is what counts. Post some more in the future!
Even through my tired eyes, it appears that the voters are rising above the noise of “domestic terrorist” and “pro-American communities.” I haven’t taken a poll but I’m pretty sure Truckee, California is pro-America. I know I get excited about what America can be, especially with great leadership and a thinking electorate. Even though I OD’d on this election a long time ago, I am excited about mailing my ballot tomorrow to include a BIG FAT YES for Barack Obama. And I am grateful that the GOP has shown its true colors by choosing Palin, because if they had chosen someone who was qualified we might be closer to President McCain. Vote early, vote often!
Add to my list of post-vacation Things to Do: go to the Township office to vote early. (I’m in Lake County, not Cook County, so I can’t vote often. :))
I will certainly vote for Obama although he was not (and is still not) my preferred candidate, but the most bothersome thing, and one which has really been shoved under the rug, is the obscene amount of money his campaign has raised and spent. His backtracking on a promise to use public funds was very disappointing to me. Regardless of the spin he put on it, this is not going to reform or change anything. It will only lead to more spending by both sides in the next election.
Obama is, if anything, a consummate and very skilled politician. In that I find it hard to find much innovative or exciting. I know many people are very energized about his campaign. I think he will govern like most presidents if he wants to succeed – from the very bland middle.
I am a librarian in Indiana who is voting Republican. Obama scares me. Palin is better qualified and her traditional values are what this country needs. Maia’s jab about voting often is revelatory. Cheating is not the way to win a contest.
Sean, don’t fall into the trap of taking an old joke like “vote early, vote often” and use it to justify rambling open-ended statements like “Obama scares [you].” My sister is a former small-town mayor and she’s as wedded to the democratic process as, well, her big sister!
Just attended an Obama rally here in Tampa. I’ve been a supporter of his from the start (home state is Illinois, so I’m a bit more familiar with his history) and was so completely energized by his speech. Time for some CHANGE!
No to belabor my point . . . first, nothing about Obama scares me. Not much of what he proposes is particularly radical. No Democrat would ever be elected if they did propose real changes. Some of the Republican suggestions about privatization are a lot more radical in my opinion. The biggest change will be the party in the White House. I don’t mean to sound cynical, but Obama’s views on the social issues are totally centrist and the most successful Democrats always move to the center or they don’t stay in office. I can’t wait to see Bush out of office. I think that being very progressive means never really finding a candidate who is electable who represents my views (Russ Feingold probably comes closest or at least first to mind).
love this post and couldn’t agree with you more KG. I HATE the line of attack (which is usually the last, and most desperate) that “if you disagree with me you are unpatriotic and unAmerican.”
Reminds me of the episode of 30 Rock where Tina Fey says something to the effect of “I love America. Who doesn’t love America? Just because I think dudes should be allowed to marry each other and that we should all drive hybrid cares doesn’t mean I don’t love America” (then turns and smiles directly at the camera)
Luckily I vote in a state which is NOT a swing state and I can with clear conscience vote the Green Party candidate and not worry about McCain winning. I’d rather spend my vote trying to make it easier for third parties to flourish in a system that is clearly broken and blatantly obnoxious.