The Party's Over

...why is there still a car in my yard?
Col hosted an election night party last night and we had a pretty good turnout. We have a farily good sized driveway, but it can only hold about five or six cars.

Our friend Andy B. took it upon himself to park in the yard, a move which I had contemplated to make more room for others, so we decided to go with it. Our neighbor even volunteered her yard, with the caveat that we buy a $14 bucket of cookie dough from her daughter.

I think we ended up with about 13 cars at the house. The white car in the picture belong's to Andy's wife, who, like a responsible drinker, rode home with Andy and left her car in the yard.

Hopefully they'll pick it up soon, because I correlate cars in the yard with the McCain-Palin ilk, not the B.O. supporters.

Election Day

I hope you've taken the time to vote. If you haven't, and time hasn't run out yet, let this speak to you. It brings me close to tears. Yes we can.

I did. Did you?

World Follows American Elections 'Closely'

While watching all the primary coverage last night, I got to thinking about how or if the rest of the world is viewing the "Race to the Whitehouse."

I logged on to Al Jazeera's English site this morning and found this:

Obama 'favourite global candidate'

The race to be the next president of the United States has captivated the imagination of not just a vast majority of American citizens, but of people worldwide, according to a new report commissioned by Al Jazeera.
And Barack Obama, who is expected to soon clinch the Democratic nomination, is proving as popular abroad as he has at home.
In a survey of 22 countries, published on Tuesday, 80 per cent of people polled who said they were aware of the three main candidates - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain - said they were following the election "closely".

Apparently Germany is following the election the closest, according to the report, "with a third of people aware of all the candidates also following the election 'very closely'."

Interestingly, not a mention of the elections anywhere on the Russian Itar-Tass news agency. The Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies had a pretty straightforward story with the headline "Barack Obama scripts history, seals Democratic nomination."

The Irish and London Times, BBC, China's Xinhua had similarly straightforward stories.

The Old and the Stupid

As I see it, Hillary Clinton supporters are primarily old women and dumb white guys.

Do we really want these people deciding who our next president will be? A bunch of old women who won't be around to see changes take place and a group of apathetic morons too stupid to notice?

And all the racists out there (closeted or otherwise) who say they'll vote for McCain if Obama wins his party's nomination just infuriate me. Are they really so ignorant/hateful that they would rather support a candidate who is turning out to be less and less of the maverick senator I once respected? A man who is still trying to figure out how much pandering to his party's ultra right wingers he can get away with without putting off Independent voters?

Ugh. This whole political process is sickening.

Another Cardboard Candidate

Not to be outdone, cardboard cutout Barack Obama made a recent appearance in Asheville.

(Source: citizen-times.com)

I think Michelle might have a thing or two to say to this woman...

(Source: citizen-times.com)

and this guy.

Full of Spit

So Hillary won the Pennsylvania primary. No big woo. That was expected. She still needs to get over herself.

The woman talks out of both sides of her face, and if you want to talk elitist... well, she's the postergirl. And don't forget phony.

But I guess what I really can't stand the most is that seems to feel this sense of entitlement to be president. In her victory speech last night she lauded Pennsylvania voters for coming out because they knew their votes would count.

Well, excuse me, but if you want to go by vote count... Barack has garnered more votes in the primaries held so far. Hillary would like them not to count. She would like only the votes cast in the "big" states to count. Thus negating the millions of people who cast their vote for her opponent. Talk about elitist.

Last night she also said, "You know, the pundit’s question whether Pennsylvanians would trust me with this charge and tonight you showed you do." Well fewer Pennsylvanians showed they would trust her than if the election were held six weeks ago. And if independents had been allowed to vote, I'm sure the vote would have been much closer, if not an outright win for Obama.

She needs to get a clue. The Democrats have been talking unifying the country for the past two years and I don't see it happening. Hillary is like that kid in the schoolyard that no one likes and everyone pushes away, but who still doesn't get the clue that they're not wanted.

I've never contributed to a political campaign, but after last night and the Clinton campaign touting the $3 million they desperately needed raised last night, I'm going to contribute to the Obama campaign when I get paid Friday. Not much. Hillary's campaign was asking donors for $5. I'm going to donate $8 to help Barack win in '08. I know it's not much, but it adds up.

I'm an unaffiliated voter. I don't particuarly care for the politics of either party, but I particiapte in the process and I want my vote to count. I think it's time for the U.S. to ditch these antiquated systems of elections, yes I'm talking about delegates and electoral college systems. One person, one vote.

We celebrate when other countries hold "free and fair" elections that depend on voters casting their votes and not voting for delegates or electors. The United States even recognizes elections such as the recent one in Russia where many people were crying foul.

All right. I got that out of my system. I'll go now.