President's Day

[filkertom]

Lincoln (actual birthday Feb. 12, 1809), Washington (actual reported birthday Feb. 22, 1732). It took 150 years and marketing savvy to lump them together so people can save money on washer-dryers.

Oh, and, Chimpy apparently refers to Washington as "the first George W." Nice.

Since I imagine most of you aren't actually "celebrating" this "holiday", what do you think of the presidential race at the moment? Try to be nice. I myself am leaning strongly towards Obama, with the hope that he adds Edwards to his ticket. I think John McCain is going to be shoved down our throats by the Corporate Media, and it's going to be necessary to point out time and again his inconsistencies and the fact that he wants to keep us in Iraq. I think Huckabee has lost whatever tiny smidge of cred he had with me by saying "running for office is sort of like being waterboarded". And I think that the Villagers, particularly William Kristol, are on another fuckin' planet, and I wish they'd stay there.

ETA: Picky, picky, picky, regarding Washington's birth date. ;)

Comments

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

I've never said I was crazy about his platform --in fact, I violently disagree with at least half of it-- but as the daughter of a Vietnam vet and coming from a military background, I respect the man himself.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Even despite his pro-torture votes? The way he's rolled over to the administration on the war? And now he's sold out to the religious right. (Somehow radical right-wingers never get called flip-floppers.) He's a very rigid, fanatical man; being a vet doesn't make him a better person.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Meh. I respect his service, but I've long since lost any respect I had for the man himself - and he seems to have lost basically all of his principles.

I'll have to come down on this side

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Once, McCain was respectable. Then he voted for torture, ABSOLUTELY KNOWING (as his previous public statements prove) that torture is wrong and waterboarding is torture.

He's either gone extremely batty, or he is total political pandering scum. There is no other possibility.

Versus a bit of political expediency on Hilary's side, I REALLY don't understand why "moderates" would vote for him rather than her other than a total frenzy of media-induced but unadmitted misogyny.