I don’t know if you’ve been made aware of this lately, but there is an election coming up that could very well make or break the future for all of us.
Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green Party or Joe Lieberman – It doesn’t matter what party you’re a member of or even leaning towards, one thing is certain…
Unless its’ the “Global Party“, we’re all screwed.
And since these elections seem to laugh out any other party from running in General Elections, we are stuck with a choice between two steaming piles of shit. The only true difference between them is the smell.¹
Though I was, admittedly, one of the many disgruntled “Hillar-ites” (PUMA), I’ve come to accept (begrudgingly) that I may vote for Obama/Biden. I’m over the bitterness of my gal not winning the nomination – though I will ALWAYS be impressed and proud of her historic run – and am willing to open up to whatever it is that Obama is trying to sell. But I have to also admit, I still want to be dazzled by him. I still need to somehow be convinced that he can/will turn this topsy-turvey planet around.
No small feat when you consider the eight years that the Republican party has allowed Bush and his administration to essentially wipe their asses with the Constitution, Geneva Conventions and all scientific documentation. Then they proceeded to throw the muddy remains at the rest of the world, yelling “Eat shit and die!!”
Honestly, I really don’t even mind so much when Bush yells out, “We’re #1!! We’re #1!!” But does he really have to keep using the middle finger to punctuate this?
I wonder how he'd taste with garlic?
A melanoma away from the Resolute Desk.
On the other hand, there’s McCain/Palin. GAWD this prospect scares the bejeebus out of me!! What will be her main role as Vice-President…official holder of the sunscreen?? Seriously, between the two of them, he’s so white he’s gotta stay out of the sun or else he’ll burst into flames. And she, coming from Alaska, sees so little night time (sunlight averaging 19 – 21 hours a day) that if you turn off the lights she’d probably glow.
I don’t know if I’m more afraid of their views as a whole, his age/health, her lack of any tangible (and national/international) experience, his temper or just the complete McCain/Palin package.
Then there’s that loose cannon, Joe Biden. While I love his down-to-earth style and disdain for lobbyists, he can still be a bit off-the-cuff when it comes to questions and statements. I’d just hate to see a campaign tripped over the verbal-shoestrings due to gaff after gaff after gaff.
True, gaffs happen all the time, even by the most seasoned politicians and orators. But in an election as important as this one is, when we say we need all the help we can get, that includes keeping their personal opinions (the catty ones, at least) to themselves and stay on issue.
I realize that everyone seems excited about the upcoming historic relevance of this election – either it’s going to be the first African-American President or the first female Vice-President (though I’m still a little grumpy we couldn’t have BOTH) – and we’re all supposed to be riding high on that history-making day in November. And I, too, am proud that this historic day is finally coming. It’s about time, I say.
But I’m afraid the true historic relevance will be drowned out due to that mentioned above. There is a golden opportunity to solve so very many problems this time around, both here at home and abroad. Mistakes can be corrected. Wrongs can be righted. Wars can be ended and the subsequent terrorist threats can be thwarted. The economy can recover globally. The environment can be saved from peril. The poor uplifted, the unhealthy cared for and/or cured, the uninsured covered, religion out of politics, and so on and so on.
The first hundred days of either new administration could mean progress made on an unprecedented level. But the media – both right and left-leaning – will spend that first four years focusing not on what is or isn’t being done for the good of ALL man, but what is or isn’t being accomplished by the first African-American President or by the crazy old albino and his female Vice-President.
I know I’ve been out of the political fray for some time now, distracted by my own life’s events and melodramas. But through it all, I’ve been keeping one good eye fixed on the goings-on in the political world as well as the world at-large. And though I’m not some deity looking down from on high at the scurryings of the minions down below, I have a stake in all of this equal to everyone else on the planet. And I say it that way because everyone on this planet has a genuine concern in who gets elected President here in the US and what either of them do with their time in office.
Truth be told, none of the above four people are what I consider either Presidential material or up to the task. Further, I can’t even say that Hillary would have been either. But this is the choice we are left with when there are no viable incumbent candidates who’ve sat in the chairs. This will be the first election since 1928 without an incumbent running in the primaries from either party. The election of 1952 was the last election without an incumbent running in the general election.²
Fifty six years since no incumbent candidates. That’s also some history.
(¹) – From Lewis Black – “Red White & Screwed“
(²) – From Election Geek
