Since I’m resigned to the probability that McCain will win in a landslide because I honestly don’t think Obama has a chance in hell of winning, I’ll just sigh and say “I knew it.”
Also…
I’ll not answer the phone for several days knowing that my dad, who called Obama a “nigger” to get a rise out of me, will call and Bricker me.
I’ll make up a “Sorry” jpg if that website gets started up again.
I’ll pray (you know, just in case) to a god I don’t believe in to keep McCain healthy throughout his presidency.
Otherwise, I’ll just go on with my life, unless my life is personally affected, and I’ll deal with that when and if it happens.
Mainly I’ll just wait, and watch, assuming that nothing will change until we as a nation truly do hit rock bottom, and maybe not even then, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it at any point in time, so why bother having a meltdown?
If McCain had picked a different VP, someone more moderate, not into creationism, not super anti-abortion and pro-abstinence only teaching, etc., then I wouldn’t be too worried. I wouldn’t be happy but I also wouldn’t half-joke about moving to Canada. I know he picked Palin because she is all those things while he really isn’t, to appeal to voters that are, but that scares me - I think it’s not too far-fetched to think McCain possibly might die in office, especially if he goes for term #2. Then she’d be running things. That would frighten me to no end.
And I really want a democrat in office to appoint whatever new Supreme Court judges are needed (besides all the other reasons I want a dem in office). Bush got to appoint a few and I think it’s time to get a couple more liberal judges in so my uterus doesn’t end up being controlled by the state of Missouri or the federal government.
It isn’t the McCain/Palin Whitehouse that would irritate me so much, but the complete and utter stupidity of a public that would think if you put a new dress on the same old sow you have a beauty queen.
Either way, we get what we deserve. If DRILL DRILL DRILL and some brat spitting on her brother’s head is what wins this election, then so be it.
Actually, until the delightful Ms. Palin came along, I wouldn’t have cared. McCain has never been particularly conservative and he won’t be as President either, no matter what pandering he’s doing for the base right now.
While I plan to vote Obama, as he agrees with me ideologically- I won’t be petrified of McCain. I will merely be bitterly disappointed that the majority of Americans completely disagree with me on what I feel is so important.
Palin- on the other hand- is dangerous. The more I learn about her, the more I feel like we need to keep her far far away from Washington, D.C.
I will desperately hope that McCain reverts back to himself after the election and he seriously tries to change the culture of corruption in Washington. I’ll hope he’ll flip flop back again to his positions on taxes, campaign finance, torture, etc. I’ll hope he gets damn better advisors than this administration, to deal with the complexities of foreign relations. I’ll hope the last few years have been a charade to cozy up to the right wing. And I’ll hope desperately that he lives to see the next election.
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. Just picture the economy after he does that. He has made it clear that more war and a even bigger national debt are in the future if he wins. Somewhere the cost will be borne by the American people. It will be ugly.
The only meltdown I’ve come close to in ten election cycles was when the current occupant was elected - both times. I had serious fears for the survival of our constitution, if not our country, and not without reason as it turns out. He still has four months, but I think Cheney and company have lost interest in the agenda, thank god, so we’re probably safe for the time being.
I didn’t write all that to start another argument, but to answer the OP. If McCain/Palin win, I won’t experience that deep foreboding that I felt when Bush was elected. McCain would not be bringing Satan and his minions with him, and I think he’s an honorable person at heart. Change for America and the party? Nah, don’t buy it for a minute, despite what all the Palinistas think. McCain is Establishment, and Palin is a Pentecostal book-banner from way back. Her rep as a reformer is bullshit.
I remember the meltdown here in 2004 when the Republicans won, and the lack of a meltdown in 2006 when the Democrats won. The Democrats here were bad losers.
Do you think all these black sites and the cherished concept of extraordinary rendition so our black hooded friends can have fun popped up during the last eight years? Or that we just started training thugs around the world on how to work someone over in style? Because you’d be wrong if you did. I mean, damn. We’re talking about a significant thread of American foreign policy running through the history in the 20th century and several administrations. And if Obama is elected he’ll do it too, just like all the other presidents of modern history. Maybe he won’t be as in your face about it as Bush, though, so I guess it’s easier to be cheerful about it all.
I already think McCain will probably win, so I won’t be surprised. I think McCain will be a terrible president in almost every area. His foreign policy will be needlessly antagonistic and militaristic, he won’t do squat about global warming or alternative energy, and he’ll continue to overlook all but the most egregious abuses of corporate power. In short, America will continue to decline. But what the hell, I don’t have kids.
Oh, I’m aware of our government’s usual modus operandi. I know about Salvador Allende in Chile and United Fruit in Guatemala, and the School of the Americas at Fort Benning. I guess it all comes down to my comfort level.
For the last several years my colleagues and I have been painted as evil by the media and the public at large, and I’ve been waiting it out, assuming that this was as bad as it could get, and that our next presidential administration would begin to right the wrongs.
I just hope that is the case. When John McCain, like flipping a switch, went from being a vocal opponent of the US torturing prisoners to a vocal proponent of it, I was crushed.