This ain't no disco, this ain't no Livejournal, this ain't no foolin' around
Okay, I realize I've been a bit "Dear Diary..." lately. I can't help it. For a long time, life was hard. Now it's getting easier, and you'll excuse me if I want to shout it from the rooftops that for once my life doesn't suck.
Anyway, it's an election year, so expect plenty of Outside World commentary in the next few months. To start with, John Kerry? What the hell? Where did he come from? (I know. Massachusetts. Shh.) My assessment of Dean's third-place finish in the Iowa caucus is that if you repeat a lie enough times -- "He's unelectable" -- it becomes true. Sure, he's a loudmouth, but isn't that just what we need to get the swing voters' attention? I'm not gung-ho Dean like I was back when he was a dark horse, but I still think we could do a helluva lot worse.
I must admit, I hadn't paid too much attention to Edwards until now -- a first-term senator? Not gonna happen -- but so far, I like what he stands for. (Except that war thing.) Again, we could do much worse. I'm going to stay tuned.
Though I wasn't going to vote for him in the primaries, I feel awful for Dick Gephardt. The union guy getting shoved out of the race by Kerry, the ketchup heiress's husband.
My favorite assessment of Kerry is Rick's opinion that Kerry is running for president because he "thinks it's his turn." Another entitled Skull and Bones Yalie. Blech. Or maybe I'm just sick of him because I lived in Boston for a while, and left Boston angry at Kerry (who's glossing over his anti-Vietnam War protest days on the campaign trail in favor of highlighting his Vietnam War service to a paranoid public) for voting for that stupid Iraq war.
That said, if Kerry gets the nomination, I'll support him 100%. This from someone who's voted Green in the last presidential election, and the gubernatorial election before last (not the Arnold debacle, the absurd race in Massachusetts that pitted an awful Democrat against an awful Republican). I can't take another four years of Bushwhacking.
Okay, I realize I've been a bit "Dear Diary..." lately. I can't help it. For a long time, life was hard. Now it's getting easier, and you'll excuse me if I want to shout it from the rooftops that for once my life doesn't suck.
Anyway, it's an election year, so expect plenty of Outside World commentary in the next few months. To start with, John Kerry? What the hell? Where did he come from? (I know. Massachusetts. Shh.) My assessment of Dean's third-place finish in the Iowa caucus is that if you repeat a lie enough times -- "He's unelectable" -- it becomes true. Sure, he's a loudmouth, but isn't that just what we need to get the swing voters' attention? I'm not gung-ho Dean like I was back when he was a dark horse, but I still think we could do a helluva lot worse.
I must admit, I hadn't paid too much attention to Edwards until now -- a first-term senator? Not gonna happen -- but so far, I like what he stands for. (Except that war thing.) Again, we could do much worse. I'm going to stay tuned.
Though I wasn't going to vote for him in the primaries, I feel awful for Dick Gephardt. The union guy getting shoved out of the race by Kerry, the ketchup heiress's husband.
My favorite assessment of Kerry is Rick's opinion that Kerry is running for president because he "thinks it's his turn." Another entitled Skull and Bones Yalie. Blech. Or maybe I'm just sick of him because I lived in Boston for a while, and left Boston angry at Kerry (who's glossing over his anti-Vietnam War protest days on the campaign trail in favor of highlighting his Vietnam War service to a paranoid public) for voting for that stupid Iraq war.
That said, if Kerry gets the nomination, I'll support him 100%. This from someone who's voted Green in the last presidential election, and the gubernatorial election before last (not the Arnold debacle, the absurd race in Massachusetts that pitted an awful Democrat against an awful Republican). I can't take another four years of Bushwhacking.
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