Northside Caucus

My previous experiment of positive thinking for the election did not pan out. This is going to be a long bitter ride to rid ourselves of the political dynasty that we have endured for most of our lives.

Bush 1 - 4 years
Clinton 1 - 8 years
Bush 2 - 8 years

Now if you toss in Hillary.

Bush 1 - 4 years
Clinton 1 - 8 years
Bush 2 - 8 years
Clinton 2 - 4 to 8 years

If you toss in McCain it goes back even further. Although he is not a member of the Reagan family, he makes no bones about his desire to continue the Reagan years.

Reagan 1 - 8 years
Bush 1 - 4 years
Clinton 1 - 8 years
Bush 2 - 8 years
McCain 1 (Reagan 2) - 4 to 8 years

Either way your looking at 24 to 36 years of the same ol' shit. I don't care if we elect a freaking gerbil, anything but a bush, Clinton or Reagan worshiper (but also including a ban on Mormon wacky jobs and fundie nut cases). Once you sift your candidates on those criteria, you sadly don't end up with much to pick from.

I'd like to see change, and not exactly sure what change means. All candidates are tossing the word change out there as much as the whole children should eat and kissing babies thing. Part of me wants to see change that does one thing and one thing only. To see to people who voted for dubya cringe in horror at the new candidate as the entire world cringed in horror at the re-election in 2004. Hillary does this quite well; the bushies hate her with a passion. Obama seems less of a target for outright hate by the bushies at this point, but I'm sure these "good Christian folk" will find some method to break most of the commandments generating fresh new hate.

But anyways last night LeAnn and I tossed our votes in for Obama. It was kind of nice that a primary is still contested enough by the time it gets to Minnesota that your vote actually matters. It was really cool at the caucus; everyone from the neighborhood was in a good mood and joking around together. There were young and old, black, white, Hispanic, straight, gay, smart, dumb, sober, drunk (only one who had enough vodka on his breath to knock over a horse), fat, thin, men, women, kids, disabled, tall and short. Everyone was polite and happy, lots of "you go first, no you go first", and the North side of Minneapolis went landslide for Obama, something like 70-80%.

I was impressed; can you imagine having a president that does not infuriate 80% of the global population? It almost seems like a dream too good to be true. I'm so used to being enraged, I don't remember what it's like not to be. I can't even look at a photo of any of the bushies on a news paper without surpressing an urge to tear it to shreads. I hear dubya on the radio I turn it off, I see him on the TV and I fast forward past him.

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An interesting read on the conservative split with McCain.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/06/roland.martin/index.html

I hope the fundies do run a third party candidate, it will tear the republican Jesus machine apart and make the Ralph Nader rebellion against the dems a gnat on the windshield of history. I think Nader only snagged 1% of the total vote last time around? The fundies will walk with 10% at the very least, more of a brick through the windshield.

But then again the fundies should go to the Constitution party (or form the fundie party), rather than continuing to remain a parasite on the Republican Party. I've always thought there should not only be three major parties, but four major parties. The liberal Greens on the left, the dems left of center, the republicans right of center and the fundie Constitution party on the right.

But it's clearly not in the interest of the fundies to split from the Republican Party over McCain, its madness. But you won't hear me telling any fundie that, I'll be agreeing with them that McCain is a dog they need to distance themselves from.

But if they choose to follow radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, they get what they asked for. It would also be nice to watch these assholes get swept away out of the mainstream into the fringe with their own big mouths.

All in all this is good news.