Thank You Hillary.

The slate of can­di­dates avail­able from in our “multi-party” democ­racy under­scores the rea­son why NONE OF THE ABOVE should be an option on the elec­tion bal­lot. Perhaps if we were pro­vided that option then the 50 plus per­cent of non-voters would show up to cast their ballot!

Long ago I con­cluded that our news machines (from PBS to FOX) are thinly dis­guised pro­pa­ganda machines dri­ven largely by polit­i­cal inter­ests. What sep­a­rates us from the “demo­c­ra­tic repub­lic” of China is that we have the free­dom to choose which ver­sion of lies we pre­fer to believe. So for me, an elec­tion is not about choos­ing which can­di­date I “believe” in but which can­di­date is the “least of the evils.”

Since orderly sys­tems pre­fer pre­dictable results, I’m favor­ing McCain for the win in November. McCain is the safe choice, the known com­mod­ity, with a long polit­i­cal track record; i.e. pre­dictable. Obama on the other hand is an unknown com­mod­ity, with a very short polit­i­cal track record; i.e. unpredictable.

@Tory:

Since orderly sys­tems pre­fer pre­dictable results, I’m favor­ing McCain for the win in November. McCain is the safe choice, the known com­mod­ity, with a long polit­i­cal track record; i.e. pre­dictable. Obama on the other hand is an unknown com­mod­ity, with a very short polit­i­cal track record; i.e. unpredictable.

Well, if that isn’t an utter cop-out I don’t know what is. Look, we’re not decid­ing what top­pings to put on our pizza here. If you pre­fer McCain because you agree with his posi­tions (what­ever they are this week) then fine. You may be evil, but at least you’re mak­ing a stand. But don’t try to spin McCain as pre­dictable. Here’s a clue for you. I live in Arizona. I’ve been lis­ten­ing to McCain yam­mer for years, and the only thing “pre­dictable” about John McCain is that he’s an utter douchebag who will do repu­di­ate any moral stance he ever held in pur­suit of the presidency.

As a Canuck since the day I was born, I am totally inel­i­gi­ble to cast a vote in your upcom­ing elec­tion, and I’m not here to debate which country’s sys­tem pro­tects the people’s ‘demo­c­ra­tic rights’ the most, or which demo­c­ra­tic method (Parliamentary Democracy vs. Republic) is supe­rior. I just thought I’d drop you a line and men­tion that a vast, over­whelm­ing major­ity of Canadians (the nor­mal ones, not nec­es­sar­ily the politi­cians, who tend to be com­plete ass­hats no mat­ter which side of the bor­der they live and work on) would vote for Obama. The num­ber is appar­ently some­thing north of 73% in favour of Obama. I fall into this camp, and I’m keep­ing my fin­gers crossed and avoid­ing walk­ing under lad­ders and all that shite.

Good post. Minor cor­rec­tion: miss­ing the sec­ond ‘o’ in ‘too’ in your final sentence.

@Josh Reynolds: Thanks Josh, typo cor­rec­tions are always welcome.

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that said, regards from old europe, I sure pre­fer Obama but don´t think he´ll fare much bet­ter than McCain anyway.

to para­phrase Bill Hicks: I have this feel­ing that who­ever is elected pres­i­dent, like Clinton was, no mat­ter what you promise on the cam­paign trail — blah, blah, blah — when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve indus­tri­al­ist cap­i­tal­ist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this lit­tle film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.” And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion from an angle you’ve never seen before … that looks sus­pi­ciously like it’s from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new pres­i­dent, “Any ques­tions?” “Er, just what my agenda is.”

Matt

I think it’s rather sweet that over there you all believe it will actu­ally make any dif­fer­ence

Rock on! Nice post. I’m an ObamaMama and am pumped up about this year’s elec­tion. I come from a fam­ily (both in-law and blood) that are far, far, far right-wingers. Depressing actu­ally. If McCain wins, I will be look­ing for the near­est and fastest route to Canada. Seriously. Should that hor­ror of a day hap­pen, maybe Mr. Mikey can give us some point­ers on where to go.

Susanne, as a Canadian, I must ask, is “that hor­ror” mov­ing to Canada or McCain win­ning? What lit­tle self-esteem I had left.….

The hope­ful thing about McCain is, aside from being an ass­hole and a douchebag, and on sale to the high­est bid­der, and all that other good stuff: He’s totally fuck­ing insane! He can try to hold it together and act nor­mal for a period of time, but par­tic­u­larly in the heat of a come-from-behind Presidential cam­paign, he’s absolutely cer­tain to go com­pletely apeshit and say some­thing that’s going to knock him out of the race altogether.

To those of you from Canada and Europe: I have to admit I am now ashamed to be an American. I felt that way when this coun­try elected that retarded fuck­nut Reagan, but after the stolen elec­tion of 2000, when 100 mil­lion peo­ple didn’t rise up in rebel­lion, I’ve been search­ing for some­where, any­where, to go. This par­tic­u­lar elec­tion may turn out well, but the county I live in voted 80/20 for the good guys last time, and it didn’t help. Don’t let the seem­ing sparse­ness of those blue patches on that infa­mous map fool you: that’s where the peo­ple are. Unfortunately, here peo­ple don’t vote; land does. Every state gets an extra 2 votes in the Electoral College, because they all have 2 Senators, regard­less of how many or few Representatives they have. That means we have 2/3 of the states with 1/3 of the pop­u­la­tion that can always pull a major­ity in a Presidential elec­tion. In other words, there’s no hope for us in the long run, at least until redneck-killing is legalized!

@Phil My apolo­gies. To quote Apocalypse Now, “It’s impos­si­ble for words to describe what is nec­es­sary to those who do not know what hor­ror means. Horror. Horror has a face…” And it’s McCain’s.

Let me be clear, I’m not mak­ing a case for either McCain or Obama.

Personally, I believe that politi­cians, par­tic­u­larly those on the national scene are ALL crooks — each of them bought and paid for by the par­tic­u­lar $pecial inter­est groups that they each love to fon­dle. Then dur­ing the elec­tion cycle they crank up the pro­pa­ganda about how they stand up for hard-working Americans, plan to cut taxes, raise wages, increase jobs, a chicken in every pot, two cars in every garage, a fairy cas­tle and a free pony, blah, blah, blah.

My major point is there is about 50% of the eli­gi­ble vot­ers who DO NOT vote. For these vot­ers, appar­ently dis­en­fran­chised by our “two-party” multi-party democ­racy there should be a “NONE OF THE ABOVE” option on the bal­lot box. If the DNC & the RNC knew they were run­ning against “NOTA” then their might really be last­ing change in the polit­i­cal arena.

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I take con­so­la­tion in the fact that things could be so much worse … http://​ap​.google​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​A​L​e​q​M​5​i​4​k​T​7​p​J​l​n​u​z​Y​_​v​p​K​d​T​A​C​c​Q​Y​I​P​c​v​Q​D​9​2​Q​M​R​LG0

@The Angry Drunk: That’s what I mean;he has to get in first. And that involves beat­ing the cor­rupt sys­tem at the first hur­dle — the elec­tion process.

Possibly noth­ing has given me as much plea­sure in recent his­tory as see­ing you write “TOEing the party line.” I’m gonna have my own freak-out at the next non­sen­si­cal, thought­less, etymology-free “TOW the party line” I see.

Anyway, right on.

Am I the only one to shiver in angst when American politi­cians con­stantly refer to god, and end all their speeches with “GOD BLESS AMERICA” instead of some­thing along the lines of “Thanks for lis­ten­ing, I had a good time here in Bumfuck, Virginia, I hope you had too”?

@Bjørn: You’re not the only one. Unfortunately any politi­cian here in the U.S. who aspires to be elected to any office higher than county dog catcher is required to wear their reli­gion on their sleeve. And it damn well bet­ter be some main­stream Christian vari­ant at that. Hell the pun­di­tards prac­ti­cally claimed that the one openly Muslim mem­ber of Congress was an Al Quaeda operative.

I’m a Permanent Resident in Canada. Can’t vote here, don’t want to vote in my coun­try of birth, wish I could vote in the U.S.A. Why? Because you guys have a large influ­ence on the rest of the world and I’d really hate to see you fuck it up again. ;-D

But seri­ously, your coun­try is in dire straits. The con­tents no longer resem­ble what it says on the can. Not only is that sad, it’s dan­ger­ous. Time for a sig­nif­i­cant change. I’m very impressed with the Obama/Biden ticket: much more so than other Democratic tick­ets in recent elec­tion years. I’m hope­ful that you can over­come the obvi­ous bar­ri­ers to fair elec­tions and get those guys into the driver’s seat. We all need it.

An aside: as much as I respect Al Gore and was shocked when the Supreme Court crowned George, I’m ret­ro­spec­tively glad that Al didn’t become President and escort that rat­fucker Lieberman into power.

After 8 years of President Barack Obama, I wish that your next Democratic President is an athe­ist. Yeah, right… that won’t hap­pen in my lifetime.

OMG, the gov­ern­ment has been cor­rupt since we formed it. Read your his­tory books. It’s not just Bush and the repub­li­cans. Give me a break.

@Joe: My favorite bull­shit “argu­ment.” All politi­cians are cor­rupt so just deal with it. Here’s a thought. Fuck you, and get off my planet.

LOL! I am amazed at how gullible some peo­ple are! Politicians are cor­rupt, espe­cially politi­cians that make it to a party nom­i­na­tion.… I mean, you have to be pretty deep in denial to pre­tend that Obama didn’t take Bribes, that McCain hasn’t got cor­rup­tion residue ooz­ing out of every pore.

But, as a Useful Idiot (prob­a­bly helps to be drunk) you will believe it about the other guy– even call their sup­port­ers “evil” but you can’t beleive it about your own party.

Its amaz­ing– they throw this bull­shit cir­cus and its so easy to get so many nieve gullible idiots like your­self falling for it. LOL! Well, I guess y’all will get what you deserve. (And, btw, you did deserve W.)

The rea­son all politi­cians are cor­rupt is because you will still vote for them.

But of course, you’re so much of a pussy that not only will you rec­og­nizes this obvi­ous truth, you’ll prob­a­bly delete the response. Yeah, run away lit­tle girl, keep liv­ing in fan­tasy land. If you don’t grow up soon, you’re going to be in a world of pain.

” Fuck you, and get off my planet.”

Ah, so intel­li­gent left­ists are! You might as well be quot­ing the com­mu­nist manifesto.

Of course, you don’t have the balls to put your money where your mouth is, or more specif­i­cally your ass.

You want to take form oth­ers by force and you call any­one who opposes this desire “Evil”. Projecting much?

Its really too bad y’all get to hide behind gov­ern­ment, because it sure would be fun to have you out on the streets beg­ging for cash for your “good works” and “help­ing peo­ple (namely your­self)”.…. cause killing idiots like your­self would thin the heard and we might have the pos­si­bil­ity of a decent government.

But instead, you hide behind gov­ern­ment force, never put your­self at risk, and vote for who­ever promises you the handouts.

NOBODY IS MORE SELFISH THAN A LEFTIST!

What what prompted me point­ing out the obvi­ous to you is that you’re such a fuck­ing cow­ard too! I mean, come on, its pathetic! LOL!