I was just coming here to post that! I laughed so hard. Man, I love Tina Fey.

I'd also like to say that it made me kind of happy that I had to search posts over 24 hours old to come up with a political thread. It upset me too much to watch what was going on and what it was doing to people everywhere arguing about it, so I haven't been reading them for several days.

Hahah, that was teh awesome.


Well, I'm frankly scared freakazoidish that McCain and Palin are being swept into the Whitehouse by the deservingly delusional American public, and that Sarah P. will be our next after next president of the United States.






But ..... it will mean years of great comedy. ;)

Would you regard me as delusional?

Yes.

Misguided.

Misguided is cool. Calling voters who choose to vote for McCain delusional I don't think is. I have made generalizations about Obama voters before - not even about all Obama voters, but just certain groups of Obama voters - and have been raked over the coals for doing so.

Most McCain voters I know have thought about the choices policy wise and pick McCain because they prefer the policies proposed by McCain over the policies proposed by Obama.

I think McCain voters are delusional if they think that with McCain at the helm things will be different from the last 8 years. You're getting another Republican leader that will continue to sink this country deeper into debt and continue to pander to the religious right and corporate run media... only older this time. McCain is not a rebel or maverick, he may think he is but he walks lockstep with Bush Jr.

What I can't understand is why any intelligent, informed voter would choose McCain's policies; which the last eight years have shown to be a resounding failure.

Actually, I was referring to Palin voters as delusional. She is what's going to sweep McCain into office. Dumbass delusional Americans love her mythos of small town anybody becoming president. They like people as stupid as they are in the White House (witness the current idiot president who can't even coherenly speak English). More overwhelmingly, they fall in love with the myth that we are living in a different century, because that's how they wish the country still was.

Palin said in her acceptance speech, "We grow good people in our small towns. I grew up with those people. They're the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food and run our factories and fight our wars."

But it's simply not true. We haven't been a country of small towns for nearly a century. It's the suburbanites and city folk who do all the fighting and hourly wage work now, and the corporations who grow our food.


I don't necessarily think you personally are delusional, scaeagles, but this is the same small town values myth that swept your hero Reagan into office. Americans hate the way their country is ... but instead of voting to change it, they vote in line with Wishing It Away.


As a group, my fellow Americans make me ill.



As for McCain: What exactly is he going to change? He says he'll continue the Bush policies in nearly every area. Americans overwhelmingly say the country is on the wrong track. Yet they will vote for him for president ... and most of them, it seems, will be doing so in the hopes that he will die soon and leave Ms. Nobody at the helm of our government.


I'm going to puke.

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin.

Drill, Drill, Drill

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.


I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.


But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.


I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.


Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."



Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.



She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.



Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.



Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.


Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.



I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.



If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.



Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?





Eve Ensler

September 5, 2008