A short while ago, on a whim, I taught myself to play the accordion. I had a hunch that somehow, knowing this instrument would open doors for me, if I wanted to do comedy. (No idea where I got a crazy idea like that.)
As H.L. Mencken once said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”
I partly blame the excessive, ridiculous primary campaign, but this year’s election season has been too close, too long, and too dire for me to bear. I spend far too much time reading, thinking, and writing about it. And the race is close because people are too stupid or ignorant or apathetic to give a shit about it. What an insult to people like me who actually think about things.
According to the Associated Press, Illinois Senator Barack Obama appeared at a “Faith Forum” in Lake Forest, California with Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
It was the first time the two men had appeared at such an event. Senator Obama spoke mostly on his support for legalized abortion, while Senator Obama talked about the biblically-outlined responsibility for people to help those less fortunate.
Senator Edwards hung his head, shamed, telling the national media that they could beat up on him—he had already beat himself up more than they ever could. The media gleefully complied, pouncing on him like a mob boss on unmarked bills. America’s White Knight had fallen.
Louisiana Governor Bobby “Creepy Smile” Jindal is much-loved among the conservative assholes who have so far shied away from McCain for not being proud enough to be an asshole. He has run a completely non-transparent government in a state whose reputation for mismanagement and catastrophe rivals that of President Bush. All of this makes him a likely pick.
Joe “Iscariot” Lieberman is a Senator from Connecticut who hates doing the right thing. In 2000, he helped Al Gore lose/win and ultimately lose an election, and now he is doing the same for Barack Obama. Joe Lieberman, who left the Democratic Party for the Fuck the Democrats Party (of his own founding), endorsed John McCain, who gleefully added “Jewish voters” to his list of minority voters he could count on. It is still the only bullet point on that list.
So… the results are 99% in, and we find that despite having been told for months on end that Pennsylvania mattered, it has done just the opposite of that.
Clinton “won” the state by just less than 10%, which is actually exactly the amount to make everyone who might be undecided go “Ehh… I don’t know what to think.” It’s also the right amount for Clinton to pretend there’s still hope for her campaign, and continue to traipse around the remaining primary states smiling that horrible smile, grating our nerves with that irritating voice, and hacking up the occasional fetus.
Commander Adama won Ohio, Rhode Island, and sort of maybe kind of won Texas. But despite her strong performance in that battle, the war looks every bit as grim for her as it did before.
Is he really a Muslim? Did he really back out of a major promise about campaign financing? Does he hate America? Did he really oppose the War in Iraq? Did he really spend a large portion of his youth overseas in Asia? Did he call one of America’s foremost Christian leaders an “agent of intolerance”?