Thursday, September 4, 2008

democracy . . . going once, going twice . . . SOLD!


I'm not really looking forward to this election. I'm normally a glass full kind of girl, but at this point there have been so many greedy people using my cup to get endless free refills that I've become apathetic. And excuse me for being a pessimist, but I'm part of the generation who has lost faith in her country.

And I can tell you the exact date it all went down. Ok, I don't remember the exact date, but it was the second that Al Gore conceded the presidency to "The Shrub" as my leftist commi-lib uncle refers to him. I don't care if the chads were pregnant, hanging or constipated - I lost my naivete and all the pride I ever had for singing the Star Spangled Banner and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning since grade school. (Yes, we did sing every morning in elementary school).

That said, I'm a little concerned that history will repeat itself and that again my vote will not count. Oh, I'll still vote, mind you. I just won't be thrilled about it. I'm already bitter that Hillary didn't win the primaries.

I have nothing against Obama. But now the Democrats look like sexists, especially since the Republicans have a female VP candidate. It just goes to show that Republicans have a ridiculous double standard when it comes to women in power. If she's a smart liberal woman like Hillary, she's seen as a power-hungry man-hating bitch. But if she's against a woman's right to choose and hunts moose, it doesn't matter if her teenage daughter is pregnant because she's a conservative who believes abstinence should be taught in schools. (A lotta good that did her daughter!)

Anyways, that's my two cents. And if I add it up with a bunch of other people's I might be able to buy my own democracy, or at least that book I saw on at a used book store in Oakland a while back.

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