A day at a time, a day at a time

Breathe. I missed Bush's speech last night, I never would have slept no matter what drug I took. Where are all the economists in this country? Why are we listening to Henry Paulson, who's one of the guys who got us into this mess?

Can I just say that Steve Schmidt, Karl Rove's devious protege, McCain's campaign manager, the man behind the Palin decision is a PIG. McCain's trying to hide from the debate now and put the focus on fixing the economy and we all know how knowledgeable he is about economics.

Number one on the agenda: make every CEO of every company in American who have given themselves multi millions in bonuses in the past year pay every freaking penny back to tax payers. (I'd like to go back further, but I know that will never fly.)

Anyway, will they hide from the debate? Let's see. I wonder if Bush is freaking out. What a legacy. Is there one thing his administration hasn't ruined? Please let me know if you can come up with something.

Shock and Awe

I was trying to meditate and I just had to write this. I have to vent. I AM SO MAD. I cannot believe that anyone in this entire country would even contemplate voting for another Republican administration given the fucking mess this country is in. How bad does it have to get before they wake up and smell the coffee?? Do we have to be on bread lines?

I get it. McCain and Sarah Palin are like your cute old grandpa and your hot cousin. She's a little like Roseanne when she first came on TV, but much prettier. She's hot, she's a babe, men like her, women like her, but PLEASE?? How could anyone in their freaking right mind choose to have four more years of these assholes being in charge of this country and sending us further down the toilet? I can't stand listening to her speak. She did a great job at the convention performing her speech, but now I cringe when I hear her voice saying the same old b.s. every day.

I understand that a war that's costing us billions (or is it trillions at this point) doesn't seem to hit home. It's far away in a country called Iraq which is somewhere over there in the Middle East. Far. I understand most people don't give a shit about the environment. As long as they've got gas for their cars, air conditioning and heat - who cares about the future? No one cares about what we will be leaving our kids? No one cares about a health care system that is good at making insurance companies rich and not good at taking care of patients? No one cares about the enormous debt this country has? Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae have trillions of dollars in worldwide financing - if they had gone down the tubes we would have had a worldwide financial meltdown. And Bush and Co. have brought us here and McCain & Palin and Co. will continue these policies and we are getting so fucked.

I just don't understand it. I understand that Obama is a tough sell for some people, but under Democrat administrations this country has flourished economically, which is not true historically for Republican administrations.

The other day my sister went to get her hair done in the small town in Pennsylvania where she lives. They asked her what she thought of Sarah Palin and she said, "I can't stand her. She's a bimbo." (That's my sister.) They were shocked. They said, "You are the first person all day to say that. Everyone loves her!" Charlie Gibson, you have the first crack at Sarah Palin. If you fuck this up, I'll never forgive you.

This is really scary. It really is. And I think it's one of the reasons I've been feeling so down lately. Venting helps. Women - where are you in this? Talk to your friends, talk to your co-workers, let's do something to stop this train wreck. PLEASE.

Thanks. I feel a little better. Not much.

Thank God it's Over

I've got McCain's speech on, but I can't really listen. What is there to say? It's making me sick. I heard a lot about his story and very little of any substance about what he would actually do to improve the lives of the people "he so desperately wants to serve." I didn't hear him explain how voting for Bush's policies over ninety percent of the time these past eight years qualifies him for being such a "maverick."

HOW is he going to change health care? HOW is he going to fix the economy? HOW will he improve education? Tackle environmental issues? End the war? I just cannot stomach this guy and this convention, which is 93% white. How sick is that?

I went to an Obama fundraiser tonight and I feel more hopeful that we can win. We only need five percent more votes than we got in the last election and that is totally possible. I can't stand the fact that Sarah Palin is being taken seriously because she was able to "perform" a well crafted speech (filled with inaccuracies) without making a complete idiot of herself. She has no right to be a vice presidential nominee. She should be terrified to debate Biden, but we know how well rehearsed she will be. I just hope that Obama and Biden will respond strongly to every attack. Tonight James Rubin, formerly of the State Department under Clinton, spoke at the fundraiser. He reminded us that "Republicans know how to elect people, they just don't know how to govern." He talked about how McCain doesn't view force as the option of last resort. He gave an example from 1994 when Clinton was under pressure to bomb North Korea and McCain was one of the senators who was pushing for that. Fortunately, Clinton used diplomacy. He talked about Bush's policy of not talking to Iran as being "childish" - I think that was the adjective he used. Not a productive foreign policy and probably one that McCain would continue.

(Rubin also mentioned seeing "HAIR" the night before with his wife, Christiane Amanpour and some friends, and how much it reminded them of a time when individuals were more passionate about their politics. I loved it for that reason too and really want to see it again.)

Whatever we can each do...five percent more. That's all. Five percent. We can do that. We can do what the Republicans do, get people to the polls. We can send a little more money. We can talk. We can vote.

And did you know that Sarah Palin's glasses have no prescription in them?!