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My roommate got off work, and class to go home to Scranton, PA to vote for Barack Obama tomorrow. In a state that is crucial to this election this couldn’t make me happier.

My roommate got off work, and class to go home to Scranton, PA to vote for Barack Obama tomorrow. In a state that is crucial to this election this couldn’t make me happier.

• 9:26 My standard response for the whole debate: ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION. Whoever does that once wins. #
• 9:30 That’s not going to help the economy if you freeze spending, dumb ass. #
• 9:41 You’re not answering the question, heart attack express. #
• 9:42 Retweeting @JahFurry: seems like. Mccain is auditioning for the Penguin in dark knight 2. He’s waddling #
• 9:48 In the words of an old journalism prof: “Mr. Brokaw, you’re being vague. Please be specific.” #
• 9:51 Was McCain just making the jerkoff sign to Obama? #
• 9:58 He’s rocking this health care thing. #
• 10:00 Ok, Johnny, stop making jokes. They. are. not. funny. #
• 10:21 Mr. Brokaw, my friend, you’re letting him talk too much. And what is this now about the Ukraine? #
• 10:29 What the fuck are you talking about a second holocaust?! #
• 10:39 McCain and his wife rock the hell out of that Playmate-married-the-old-rich-guy look. Michelle and Barack rock the cuteness. #

[From Fark.com].

I think I’m walking a dangerous path.  I open Facebook this morning and I’m slammed by a million things that insult me not only as a human being but as an American, and they are all Presidential politics related. So, I’m just going to say, that I can’t not ignore this stuff and not post them to my blog, because I think people who read my blathering need to be shown this stuff. So, I’m really sorry in advance, but I think its safe to say most of the stuff I’ll be writing here for the next month will mostly either be my liberal biased political opinion or comics-related (as normal).  I just can’t help it, it just gets me going, and this blog is essentially to serve my purposes and allow me to eject this stuff that literally makes me ball my fists up and feel like breaking stuff.  

So: Jahfurry linked to last night’s Olbermann’s Special Comment on Palin’s terrorist accusations.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5xKuADLmA]

Then another friend linked to a Washington Post opinion piece where Palin followers were throwing racial epithets at the camera crew during one of her speeches.  

Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, ‘Sit down, boy.’

This just makes me fucking sick.  I mean seriously, are we going to allow for people to be in power who have supporters who say things like that? I really want to believe that we’re better than that as a people, but unfortunately, I tend to think that Palin is from a place where people are exactly like that racist supporter, and this stems from a Daily Show report.

The second presidential debate is tonight.

[All credit goes directly to Nick McGlynn].

Considering Sarah Palin can’t name a single newspaper she reads.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y]

[Via Beaucoup Kevin.]

Advice to Joe Biden: Just let her dig her own hole, and don’t start running your mouth or being disrespectful. She’ll lose the election for McCain all by herself.

Considering Sarah Palin can’t name a single newspaper she reads.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y]

[Via Beaucoup Kevin.]

Advice to Joe Biden: Just let her dig her own hole, and don’t start running your mouth or being disrespectful. She’ll lose the election for McCain all by herself.

Dave Letterman sums up why this wreaks:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E]

Via Ivan Brandon.

Without getting too much into the political blog screaming head demographic of the intertubes, there are a couple of things that seriously actuate my beliefs on the recent actions by the McCain campaign. I was recently criticized over the phone by a fellow New Yorker who will be voting for McCain and Palin for making her feel like she just went through a session of Face the Nation. (This would make sense since Bob Schieffer spoke at my college graduation).  It was mostly because I chastised her for doing actual harm to the country by voting for John McCain and rabid Soccer PTA Mom on Steroids, Sarah Palin.  Here are two reasons exactly why McCain/Palin should not get your vote:

1. Matt Damon, (even though I hate to give him credit for anything, he does, however, make a stellar point):

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk]

2.  Damon makes an accurate assumption that there would be a President Palin, backed up by some Doctors:

According to two Australian actuarial experts, Senator McCain’s age and medical history would make that likely. Using a mathematical formula developed to determine life expectancy, Peter Crump said there was a 35 per cent chance that the 72-year-old senator would not live to see the end of a second term.

“He’d be 80 years old - that’s a survival rate of 65 to 70 per cent, and that’s before you take his medical history into account,” said Mr Crump, an actuary at Portfolio Planning Solutions in Adelaide. Senator McCain had had four melanomas removed since 1993, and suffered degenerative arthritis as a result of injuries sustained in the Vietnam War, so his odds of suffering a debilitating health condition were even higher.

“The probability of him contracting an illness that would render him incapable of carrying out his duties effectively is probably up around 50, 60 per cent,” said Sydney actuary Brent Walker. “Let’s just say he’d struggle to find an Australian life insurer that would cover him.”

But I am still really really terrified of people not seeing these facts, and making a terrible choice.  The good news is: most of the people I know making the McCain choice are voting in New York State, but that’s not much consolation, because there are forty-nine other states capable of utter stupidity.