Election Day '08

It's finally here.

Later tonight we will know the future of this country. All the hub-bub will be over and there will be a new President Elect. What does it mean for America? for Americans? for everyone and everything else? While at work today it was was the topic of conversation all over, many of the customers had their own conversations going: a pair of brothers that always come in were sitting outside on the bench, and asked a girl I work with who she was voting for, her response surprised them, and their responses surprised each other, the elder brother was disappointed, the younger was pleased. She is voting for McCain/Palin. This fact alone I can barely stand, especially because when I asked her her motivation for voting McCain/Palin she said she doesn't believe a black man can be President. What? What what?? serious??????????? I did that thing Scooby-Doo does with the shaking the head and making the weird Arrrrrr sound. So, I asked her aside from the race issue she has, why she is voting the way she's voting, her response insensed me to paraphrase: I just don't trust him, I feel like if he gets elected he's going to blow up America, and if he doesn't he'll be assassinated and then Biden would be President and that guys a tool.

My response: WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT????? What year is this? What's going on? Isn't it 2008? This is a joke right? You're just fucking with me?

So she asks me to explain why I am voting the way I'm voting, I explain my views and political views on education and economy and the war and how I enjoy my civil rights.

And so she just says I just don't trust him. And would no longer talk to me about it.




Either way at the end of the day the battle is over and there will be a winner, someone will go home as the NEXT President of the United States of America. The question is, are we really united? will this new President bring the country together, will he be answer we are looking for? If done right, ABSOLUTELY! It won't happen over night, it won't certainly won't happen in the first year, maybe the ball can get rolling, but it will take time to re-Unite these States of America.


**On a side-note** The state of California best be voting No on Prop 8, and I love how Bridget McManus had done that commercial about the church backing the yes campaign, and then the news in Utah attacks the commercial, saying that they are "respectful" of people who "do not follow traditional marriage" --yanno, what I call "traditional marriage" people who love each other, and want to take of one another for the rest of their lives, who are there for each other unconditionally, who make one another happy, who support each other and who want to live their lives freely ---- anyway I just side-noted my side note, my point is how can the Utah news station that produced this piece and whatever Mormon church group invested millions of dollars in the yes campaign to DENY homosexual couples EQUAL RIGHTS complain of disrespect.

Also, separate but equal was repealed in the 60s because it is not truly EQUAL. I believe Ellen put it most eloquently when she had Sen. McCain on her show, she said something like, it seems like your saying I can have a contract but I can't have a marriage, which to me feels just like you can sit there you just can't sit here.

Go vote!