Ron Paul ‘08!

I kid, though you got to admit, it would have made the Republican Convention a hell of a lot more interesting.

To quote The Daily Show “Barack Obama kinda gives me a boner…” He’s smart, articulate, and obviously can run a good organization. I trust him to attempt salvaging what’s left of our Constitution. And while I don’t have strong feelings about Biden, I have abstract roots in Delaware and his debate performance was reassuring.

McCain, I never really liked him, esp. after reading D. Foster Wallace’s profile in “An Supposedly Fun Thing…” but I think I could have suffered through him about as well as I have Bush. At least he’s articulate even if I don’t agree with him and think he’s probably a real unpleasant sonabitch. But Palin. Words can not express my dislike, distrust and scorn of this, erm, politician. An embodiment of all that’s wrong with the US body politic. Really, if McCain was half the independent he claimed to be he would have chosen Olimpia Snow as his running mate. In that case I would have said, well, at least things will completely fall apart on their watch. I no longer have that distant comfort.

Unfortunately, I can make no threat to move elsewhere. While I’m an independent contractor that works from home, I’m still a paycheck-to-paycheck mofo. But if I *could* move anywhere, I think it would be Germany or Amsterdam. Maybe England since I come from a long line of Anglophiles.

If we as a nation are smart/lucky enough to have an Obama/Biden administration I will be glad to continue to participate in the American Experiment. Should they get away with their usual gerrymandering, fraud and suppression, I’m not how I’ll stand another 4 years of not being able to watch the President and Vice-President speak. (Literally, I’m almost physically incapable of watching Bush/Cheney.)

Fortunately, to vote I just have to walk across the street. I live in a very Blue State so I’m going to read up on my local bond initiatives tonight. But beyond that, I hope against hope that our electorate isn’t beyond repair and that Cheney and Co. don’t leave things in such disrepair as to doom us all.

And, yes, the title of this post is tongue in cheek. I will go back to ranting to myself about digital production minutia presently.