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

[moquif.livejournal.com]

I think Clinton has too much baggage to make her an effective President. For the past 7 years we've heard "Questioning the President helps the terrorists." But do you think those who said that will continue that attitude if Clinton is elected? Of course not! The same will happen if Obama is elected, but I don't think it will be half as bad. Sexism is more acceptable in this country than racism. If Clinton is elected, then the conservative mud machine will go into overdrive and do everything they can to prevent her from doing her job then blame her when things go wrong. It's not fair, correct, or American but that's life.

Being in Illinois, I prefer Obama. I like his stance and his attitude and I think he's more likely to listen to the other side and be willing to compromise so things can get done. Someone has to be mature and take the first step to unify the country. Bush Jr refused to do it in any meaningful way. Clinton is unlikely to as well. McCain is about as bad as Bush when it comes to arrogance. Huckabee is the only person who I think would be worse than Bush. So who does that leave?