Election

I’m trying hard to maintain my optimism. Obama is the first politician I’ve ever outright *supported*, and he’s running in a year when it ought to be a total landslide for whoever the democrats run. The Republican administration has screwed the pooch so royally and completely over the past 8 years that the best they can do is to send Bush on a series of international trips and hope that we’re all morons. The fact that they’re busily popping the economy and writing themselves severance checks indicates to me that they’re hedging their bets.

Sadly, their plan to get re-elected appears to be working.

As usual, Tim Kreider says it better than I can:

Yesterday I spent about an hour on the phone talking to my friend Megan about the collapse of the American Empire. We discussed the historic failure of the economy, and the dismal possibility that the ineducable dullards of the Red States, infatuated with the smug, preening middle-school bitch goddess Sarah Palin, are actually going to vote for another four years of the same. She and I are both, for the third time in a decade, resigning ourselves to the impotent, bitter position: Live it up, shitheads. Have a ball. Good luck getting those manufacturing jobs back. Oh and let us know how Iraq works out.

Don’t be fooled by the media selling you a close election. It’s not close. Go out in record numbers, vote early, vote often.