[Politics] Dropping pieces into place.
Aug. 31st, 2008 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsA friend of mine who apparently loathes Obama said, You all are in love with someone because he's good at oratory and looks good on television..
Oh, if only that were true, I could see through it.
Look, I disagree with Obama's economic policies. A lot of what he said at his speech was disagreeable, and I don't believe much of it. But he's a better choice than McCain.
The choice of Sarah Palin is the latest case in point. Everyone on the right is jerking off to this former beauty queen because her inexperience is a strong contrast to Obama's. Meanwhile, Obama has surrounded himself with world-class Chicago School economic advisors from Milton Friedman's back yard and equally competent foreign policy advisors. For all the complaints about his lack of executive experience, Obama has managed the most competent electoral campaign since Reagan. If that's not experience and judgement, then what is? Obama as president would do a hundred things I don't like, but he has shown that he has the competence and temperment to avoid the kinds of economic and military blunders that would wreck a nation. McCain, on the other hand, shoots first and vets the answers afterwards.
I watched Speed Friday night, and I just realized: oh, my God, if McCain is elected and something happens to him, that movie will become our life: Sandra Bullock at the wheel of a careening bus that can't slow down. Only in this case there is no handsome Keanue Reaves to heroically save everyone, the madmen are many and multiplying, and there's no script to guarantee the happy ending.
Oh, and Sandra's an anti-intellectual patriarchal, Christianist whose pastor belongs to an organization devoted to the violent overthrow of the United States. (Holy cow, her pastor makes Jeremiah Wright look as calm and restrained as the Buddha!)
As I've said before, I don't particularly care for Obama. But I will do everything I can to get him elected. The alternative is four more years in which it is absolutely guaranteed that the economic value of an hour of my labor will continue to decline, that our relationship with foreign powers will become ever more unpredictable and unstable (Jebus, the Cato Freakin' Institute: "McCain's record shows clearly that he is a verbal loose cannon, and would be a clear and present danger in the Oval Office."), that our domestic policy would continue its slow, griding degredation of our infrastructure, services, and information technology policies, and whose social policies will set back the clock on women and gays for years to come.
Oh, if only that were true, I could see through it.
Look, I disagree with Obama's economic policies. A lot of what he said at his speech was disagreeable, and I don't believe much of it. But he's a better choice than McCain.
The choice of Sarah Palin is the latest case in point. Everyone on the right is jerking off to this former beauty queen because her inexperience is a strong contrast to Obama's. Meanwhile, Obama has surrounded himself with world-class Chicago School economic advisors from Milton Friedman's back yard and equally competent foreign policy advisors. For all the complaints about his lack of executive experience, Obama has managed the most competent electoral campaign since Reagan. If that's not experience and judgement, then what is? Obama as president would do a hundred things I don't like, but he has shown that he has the competence and temperment to avoid the kinds of economic and military blunders that would wreck a nation. McCain, on the other hand, shoots first and vets the answers afterwards.
I watched Speed Friday night, and I just realized: oh, my God, if McCain is elected and something happens to him, that movie will become our life: Sandra Bullock at the wheel of a careening bus that can't slow down. Only in this case there is no handsome Keanue Reaves to heroically save everyone, the madmen are many and multiplying, and there's no script to guarantee the happy ending.
Oh, and Sandra's an anti-intellectual patriarchal, Christianist whose pastor belongs to an organization devoted to the violent overthrow of the United States. (Holy cow, her pastor makes Jeremiah Wright look as calm and restrained as the Buddha!)
As I've said before, I don't particularly care for Obama. But I will do everything I can to get him elected. The alternative is four more years in which it is absolutely guaranteed that the economic value of an hour of my labor will continue to decline, that our relationship with foreign powers will become ever more unpredictable and unstable (Jebus, the Cato Freakin' Institute: "McCain's record shows clearly that he is a verbal loose cannon, and would be a clear and present danger in the Oval Office."), that our domestic policy would continue its slow, griding degredation of our infrastructure, services, and information technology policies, and whose social policies will set back the clock on women and gays for years to come.
