So not worth worrying about.
From 1959, as I recall.
I have the misfortune of living in a potential swing state this year, so I expect to have to sit through a barrage of campaign ads. I’m dreading it:
“Obama – Apply directly to the forehead! Obama – Apply directly to the forehead!”
“BILLY MAYS HERE FOR JOHN MCCAIN…”
As it happens, I was in Chuck E. Cheese for the first time this past weekend (for a nephew’s birthday party), and the noise, the games, the glee, the tears all strike me now as part of a big metaphor. I managed to have a good time until finally near the end: The whole time I was waiting for my wife near the restrooms, a little girl nearby was playing toddler-size Whack-A-Mole. WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM.
That’s what the election is going to feel like.
Me, for sure. Not that I actively seek out election information, but my husband is a Fox News fan, and just walking through the kitchen-family room is enough to get my left eye twitching these days. When it gets to both eyes, I’m going to employ my ear plugs for trips downstairs while Bill and those other knuckleheads are pontificating.
Hell, I have to teach this shit as it happens! Ordinarily an election year is good news for American Government teachers. Not this year. Methinks things are going to get a mite testy in the classroom before it’s all done with.
The big problem I’m facing is maintaining something of an even-handed approach to it all. I can’t let my personal biases take over my instruction. Much. Oh, well. Well-reasoned defenses of McCain’s positions are entitled to “A”'s too, I suppose. 
Lose my shit? I haven’t even seen it in years.
Oh, I don’t care who wins, I just want to see a good game. That 2000 Bush-Gore matchup, now there was a real nailbiter!
I was going the mention this. I’d half hope to see that again, just to see what gems 'luci comes up with, if he’s not quivering over in a corner, fingers in his ears, saying “There’s no place like home there’s no place like home.”
They’re making a blaxploitation film in NW France?
But seriously, anyone who’d make that connection in the McCain ad is already far along the path to totally losing his/her shit.
In other news: dog bites man, sun rises in the east.
I was losing my shit before the midterm elections in 2006, ferchrissake. And what did it get me? Nothin’. These days, I find myself wading around in every new shitstream Obama has to ford. It’s unhealthy, I tell ya.
It’s not like I’m politically active – I vote, I’ve contributed a few hundred dollars to anti-Bush folks, that’s all – I’m just an observer. A stressed-out observer with vanishingly small influence on the outcome.
So I’m going to try to check out. I don’t have a TV, so that helps. And I don’t answer phone calls from numbers I don’t recognize, so that takes care of surveys and push polls and the like.
I just went and removed politically themed feeds from my RSS reader.
That leaves the magazines I subscribe to that have political content (two weeklies…that’s not overexposure, I think), and…the Dope. If I can just keep myself from clicking on election-themed threads, maybe I’ll be OK. Maybe.
Starting now…
I don’t get this. Given all the damage we are doing around the world I’d think you would at least have a passing concern about McBush.
OBAMA DID NOT SAY SWEETIE TO THAT WOMAN – HE SAID SWINGER!!! SWINGER!!! IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!!!
I’m personally hoping to see a whole bunch of folks on these boards totally lose their shit the day after the election.
What Britney-Mandingo ad? You mean that thing I saw on The Daily Show last night wasn’t a joke?
Don’t try to tell me Israeli elections are any easier to bear!
You think too small. I’m hoping all of us will.
Heck, they’re entitled to extra credit!
Heh-heh . . . C’mon, one more won’t hurt . . . All the cool kids are doing it . . . The first hit’s free! . . .
It would help a lot if you would give me those shoes.
This is absolutely, positively the MOST CRITICAL election in our ENTIRE HISTORY. At least until the next one.
Actually, it’s refreshing that not everyone abroad (or at least, the posters we think of as representative of foreign types) is raving and drooling about how their lives are completely dominated by American politics and policies.