Encouraging news:

[fancycwabs]

Looks like generally more Democrats are early-voting than Republicans.

Obviously early-voters do not an election make, and there's no rule that says you've gotta vote your party affiliation, and there's certainly still an opportunity for voting machine shenanigans by the good people at Diebold (or whatever it's called now), but it's nice to feel excited about the future for the first time in a long time.

I guess there's still the possibility of the oft-mentioned "October Surprise," but IT'S TOO LATE, 'cause I voted TWO WEEKS AGO. And my hardened, drunk the Kool Aid 'Publican friends are terrified that Obama's gonna take their "hard-earned" money away and give it to poor black people (they'll even take a smaller tax cut under McCain if it means poorer folks will still be worse off than they are).

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[k-sui.livejournal.com]

they'll even take a smaller tax cut under McCain if it means poorer folks will still be worse off than they are

It's all about one pulling the ladder up after one's self, isn't it?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

More like cutting off a finger if it ensures someone else will lose a hand.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, we can't all be fancy rich people, can we? Otherwise, what's the point of trying to get rich?

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Me.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Oh! I was afraid someone from CNN had followed the links and had posted something earnest and wildly confusing, instead of sarcastic and amusing.

[incyr.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you're joking about that last sentence.

*sigh* Not that I'm really one to talk, but why is it human nature to want to see people worse off than you currently are? Is our country really that far down in the shitter that our basis of comparison is not how well we're doing, but how poorly we're not doing? That the only way we can feel good about ourselves is by ensuring that someone else is doing worse than we are?

I will be interested to see what the republican response to a win by Obama is. I'm also scared to death that McCain will pull out a win somehow. Although the engineer in me is interested in seeing how much more this country can take before ultimately failing - after all, it's not like they'll be able to blame the previous president this time.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I only wish I were kidding about that last sentence. DO remember that I live in Tennessee, however. You have no idea how many people I know who begin sentences with the phrase "I'm not racist, but..."

[incyr.livejournal.com]

I realize you live in Tennessee, but it still makes me cringe when I hear that sort of talk in this day and age. Knowing it still exists is one thing, but hearing it actually spoken is another.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Agreed. That sort of comment always makes my want to scream, "Who is your mother?"

But then I remember that if they're racist, their momma's probably racist too, and I get even more sad.

[loree-borealis.livejournal.com]

"I'm not racist, but..." is a lot like "No offense, but...". They both mean I'm not going to like what comes after.