Listen, I don’t profess to be the policy queen. I barely know how to convey my own thoughts sometimes so me telling somebody else how to do it is a shakey venture (except of course when I’m right!). Here’s what I do know: there are bunch of idiots in this country I love. Maybe that’s why I love this country because of the cause/effect of the idiots or maybe I’m psycho.
This morning on the news there were a few people who said they still hadn’t heard enough from both candidates. People, we haven’t gotten what we are going to get out of those two. There isn’t anything left to give short of blood types and favorite value meals. Star Magazine will be sure to get one of those details to you after the election, I’m sure.
This is why comedy is the best news of all. SNL, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have it right. While telling us the info, they make fun of us at the same time. The new edutainment. Some of this stuff is so sad that you have to laugh. Cindy McCain has said that Obama has run the dirtiest campaign in American history. Now, while I know her man has been around a long time, I am going to have to question her American history skills on this one. Sean Hannity and Elizabeth Hasselback have decided to perch themselves on this Bill Ayers think like it’s the last raft after the Titanic catastrophe. And maybe it is for them. All this boils down to another point aside from comedy being our fearless leader during heavy decision making times: we are emotional voters.
In Virginia at Jerry Falwell’s so-called Christian school, they are registering voters supposedly in a non-partisan way. But one student who wanted to register Democrat was asked if he was Christian when he did so. Why would that be? Obama is Christian. And while some people try to slam his affiliation with Jeremiah Wright - Palin went to a church where they believe in witchcraft, speak in tongues and are inclined to think you can pray sexual preference one way or the other. Last I checked, you could have any name, have any shade on your skin, any economic background and still be Christian. My favorite Christian is my cousin Renee and I’m convinced with her kind, loving, baby making, husband loving, home schooling, non-judgmental, persevering spirit that she should be saint. Upon first glance, those Virginians would say she was a young nonworkign black woman with too many kids. We American like to go with the picture in our minds instead of our own reality.
This is the only reason why facts seem to not always be able to trump perception. One focus group memeber last night said that McCain gave more numbers than Obama did. Huh? Were they good numbers or phone numbers or measurements?
We need comedy to guide us through our humanity. This election is so fragile that we could go any direction. I mean did you think this time eight years ago, during our surplus mind you, that we’d be looking at a VP nominee who just got a passport a few years ago or a Presidential candidate who is black? Or a 72 year-old who voted against having MLK Day as a national holiday? Man, just get your popcorn.
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