mrv3000 | (no subject)

The company network was down for a little while today, and so there was some news reading.

There was a time I liked John McCain. It was even as close as a few months back. Oh, I was never planning on voting for him in November, but I thought I wouldn't be all that irked if he wound up as President.

But things have been going downhill, and my respect for him has been steadily dropping. Today, I pretty much have no respect for the man. He and Palin have gone completely negative, whipping crowds into actual frenzies of hate. Do they actually think that bile will sway a voter? I'm not undecided, but I'm telling you that kind of bullshit would immediately turn me off if I was. It seems the only thing it's doing is working the already-loyal base into a froth. A really ugly froth. The kind I'm ashamed to share a country with. Yes, it's exactly that bad.

In politics I expect a certain amount of idiocy and snipping. And I don't believe that Obama wears a halo of perfection and innocence. But in my book, McCain and Palin aren't even registering a pulse on the integrity meter right now. Why would I want people like that leading and representing this country?

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The behavior of the McCain/Palin camp sickens me. From the time he hired the very people responsible for Bush's smear campaign against him in 2000--and probably before--it was clear that he'd do anything, anything at all, to win, and for no other reason than he wants to be the President. Not because he has a plan or a vision or anything--he just thinks he should be the man in charge.

There is a small part of me that thinks that Palin and McCain know EXACTLY what they are doing, in a "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" way. And that terrifies me, because it should seem like an absurd, paranoid idea--and it's not, not anymore.

I'm really not sure what's the worst scenario: knowing what they're doing and being all for it, being clueless about what they're doing, or knowing what they're doing but are unable to stop being completely managed by this political machine.

There is a small part of me that thinks that Palin and McCain know EXACTLY what they are doing, in a "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" way.

That is terrifying. And you're right, it should be absurd, but it isn't.

*shivers*