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Is it November Yet?
Sep. 11th, 2008 07:20 amSeriously, this election, I am sick of it. Even before the primaries started, I was sick of MSM and all that it spewed. But now, geez.
This feeling has culminated upon speaking to my mother who is still in the barren wastelands of OK where cable and dsl won't come to her house because she lives three miles outside of the town limits. So she just get the major networks and subscribes to the two papers - one from the big city and one for the local town. Not that it matters in this era of media consolidation really.
After some nattering about CERN causing the end of the world (ooh, please? Seriously, if we can't warp forward to November, why not!), she asked who I was voting for now. After I said Obama, she was like, "really, even with the lipstick on a pig comment?"
*face palm*
I tried to say that that was not what it had been made out to be, but as I haven't followed it, I didn't have specific arguments (not that it would have really mattered). This was followed by, "Oh, but McCain has always gone against the Republican party anyways. He's pro-choice!" I pointed out that he's voted with Bush exactly for the last four years or so, bowed to the Republican base, and appointed Palin - a creationist with a wacko husband that almost makes Falwell look sane. Not to mention all her corruption issues. And McCain's age. Which is when we got down to the real meat of the topic -
"Well, I'm just scared to vote for Obama because I don't want to lose the war."
*head bang into wall* Pointing out that we're losing Afghanistan doesn't matter because she says its just because Bush refuses to add any more troops anywhere in order to not give Obama any fodder against McCain. And she just so doesn't want to see us abandon Iraq.
I admit it, I gave up. Anything I argue will not be heeded anyways because all my "facts" come from liberal websites.
I'll be interested to hear if my dad has changed his vote. I know he's been so disgusted with McCain that he said in June he'd vote for Obama - and this is despite the race issue. (I acknowledge my parents' failings and have done what small things I can to change them, but well...)
This feeling has culminated upon speaking to my mother who is still in the barren wastelands of OK where cable and dsl won't come to her house because she lives three miles outside of the town limits. So she just get the major networks and subscribes to the two papers - one from the big city and one for the local town. Not that it matters in this era of media consolidation really.
After some nattering about CERN causing the end of the world (ooh, please? Seriously, if we can't warp forward to November, why not!), she asked who I was voting for now. After I said Obama, she was like, "really, even with the lipstick on a pig comment?"
*face palm*
I tried to say that that was not what it had been made out to be, but as I haven't followed it, I didn't have specific arguments (not that it would have really mattered). This was followed by, "Oh, but McCain has always gone against the Republican party anyways. He's pro-choice!" I pointed out that he's voted with Bush exactly for the last four years or so, bowed to the Republican base, and appointed Palin - a creationist with a wacko husband that almost makes Falwell look sane. Not to mention all her corruption issues. And McCain's age. Which is when we got down to the real meat of the topic -
"Well, I'm just scared to vote for Obama because I don't want to lose the war."
*head bang into wall* Pointing out that we're losing Afghanistan doesn't matter because she says its just because Bush refuses to add any more troops anywhere in order to not give Obama any fodder against McCain. And she just so doesn't want to see us abandon Iraq.
I admit it, I gave up. Anything I argue will not be heeded anyways because all my "facts" come from liberal websites.
I'll be interested to hear if my dad has changed his vote. I know he's been so disgusted with McCain that he said in June he'd vote for Obama - and this is despite the race issue. (I acknowledge my parents' failings and have done what small things I can to change them, but well...)