bonfire of the vanities
As i become increasingly concerned about race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, i’d like to take a moment to say that i hope you’re voting. Each and every primary is important … increasingly so since, while the two candidates are so busy battling one another, the McCain camp is calmly sitting back and taking notes.
i’m sure they, at least, would love to see the nomination remain undecided into the Convention.
Please vote, North Carolina. I hope you did, Indiana ~glancing at the clock~ as your polls have closed. Please.
Ooo! Politics! Myself, I’m feeling increasingly gloomy about the democratic nomination and the presidential election, both.
i don’t feel gloomy. i’m both energized and concerned. i think both Democratic candidates have real potential, in very different ways, but i’m leaning rather decidedly toward one.
My concern is that they get on with the actual nomination before the country becomes too comfortable with McCain in the role of a winner.
elise
I don’t like how one of them, in particular, has been campaigning. I’m also … not sure how to put it … holding my energy in abeyance until we’re one-on-one. (I do have a preference, although the one I really preferred went by the wayside … ).
Things went pretty much as expected. We’ll have to wait to see how it all shakes out.
Again.
elise
politics, sigh. I had such high hopes before all the primary stuff started. But now, to use a food analogy, I’m nauseated and have to choose between a limp noodle and a piece of stale cheese.
The beauty of the analogy is that it works (for me) for the primary or the Nov. election.
How did I get a quilt icon?
sassy,
See, i’m actually very excited about this election. Perhaps it is my infernal optimism, which refuses to go away, no matter how jaded my outlook, but i think we are on the brink of an amazing political climate.
As to the quilt, it’s some new wordpress feature, which automatically generates a colorful design attached to your email address. i like it better than the silly blank gray person box.
elise
Hope springs eternal from your breast, I see.
I need to kneel down and take a sip. Do you mind?
I agree, elise, we are on the brink of an amazing political climate. It reminds me of that (Chinese?) curse - May you live in interesting times. Certainly there is the potential for very good things to happen, but I think it may be a painful journey.
Ah, politics - we’re inundated with it. Appropriate perhaps since never was prostitution the oldest profession. That was politics, of course…the first ever marketing gurus, or pimps, if you prefer. The prostitutes were merely the ‘come on,’ the pea under that slight of hand cup.
Long ago I realized that it was the people who ignored politics that the politicians truly loved. When non voters hold themselves aloof from the process, it allows those in the center of it all to do what is most expedient and lucrative for them. Too bad in took eight hellish years to bring the results of political manipulation back into the limelight. This year’s campaign has been a strange process, however…convoluted, long, often dull, too frequently ugly and occasionally downright silly. Perhaps that’s why it both fascinates and repells me. It horrifies me too, sometimes, because the end result is usually the best testiment to the mental and emotional strength and maturity of our populace, and that isn’t reassuring.
No matter. I’ve not yet missed a voting opportunity and won’t miss this one. Too often, however, my choice gets trampled simply because I vote for substance instead of appearance and spin. Alas.
Liras ~
Gosh no, i don’t mind. But i’m a bit perplexed at the new perspective … what does one do with someone who kneels?
sassy ~
Painful journey, perhaps … but dreadfully exciting. Dreadfully.
Kaz~
You are so SO right. A dear friend mine refuses … no matter how much i lecture, plead, cajole, reason with, or threaten … to vote anything but Republican. Her reason? She’s always voted Republican. Ask her a question about an issue or a candidate, and she not only can’t answer it, but she’s not interested in knowing.
This astonishes me.
elise
I love these hidden comment discussions! I am related to people who used the following reasoning in the last election: Americans don’t switch presidents in the middle of a war, and (my favorite) I can’t vote for Kerry, he looks like a corpse. I tried to stoop to this level of argument - the president started the war and he looks like a monkey - but I was unsuccessful. More involved arguments rolled off them (yes - more than one) like blood off a rubber sheet.
I also always vote. In the big elections, the off years and the off off years. But I no longer talk politics with relatives. Instead, if the subject comes up, I ask them how much gas is where they live…
“Like blood off a rubber sheet.”
~ glancing at the blogroll and nudging sassy toward a couple of the more bloodthirsty sadists ~
i enjoy the internal discussions via comment, as well. Who knew that pounding out my thoughts this way would engender such a broad spectrum of friendships? i’m grateful for each and every one of you … even those of you who are a bit shy and prefer to comment/discuss via email or IM.
elise
I/We’ve been rather quiet in the blogosphere lately, but our voice was heard yesterday.
It was ignored, but it was heard.
:)
Just so y’know.
Lou!
~mwah~ i miss you … and the Whore. And, ignored or not, keep shouting.
elise