I can't quite put a finger on it, exactly, but I find myself increasingly disliking Obama.
I've been cheerfully posting Obama hit comments over at the Big Orange for a couple of months now.
Obama has always creeped me out. He just seems like all PR, all the time, and then once in a while the mask slips and you can see a quiet seething patrician contempt for the little people.
He's happy to farm the little people with his charm, and he's happy to consider condescending to help them once in a while. But he doesn't really see them as equals, and I suspect he's only interested in their lives to the extent that they can help him fulfill his ambitions and vision for himself.
Edwards seems to actually care in a genuine and connected way. I suppose that could just be an act too, but I have a much harder time seeing Edwards as a faker, if only because he'll have burnt a lot of bridges and made a lot of enemies in this campaign.
I know I can't trust Hillary to care about me. Therefore, she can't play me, and I can't be deeply disappointed when she sells us out.
I know. It's a sick game of lowered expectations. But it gets rid of the stress of the voters and candidates pretending to like each other...
You all have a month to talk me out of this. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
(not that I have a personal choice, apart from none of the other side) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Who do I want to run the country? Gore? Bill Moyers? Putin? Unicorns?
I have to make a choice. I guess I will take comfort in the fact that my choice has not made a difference in 15 years. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Migeru: So it's all about picking the winner?
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Do you have access to some information I don't? Please share! "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Is picking the winner the only way that your vote makes a difference? We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
I hate it when you do this thing where you understand every well what I meant to say : the person I voted for has lost, but act like you don't. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
But that can't be the point of voting, can it? We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
My conclusion is that you vote to express your part in, and support for, your group (however you define it). Getting a candidate accepted as the probable winner gets the people who wants to identify with the winning party. Getting a candidate defined as the underdog gets those that wants to identify with the underdog. And so on. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
There was a point made that on the referendum on the Spanish Constitution of 1978 a lot of the campaigning was against abstention. Those unreconstructed fascists who voted against fell in the trap of validating the democratic system by casting a vote. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
