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John McCain has just selected Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

I don't know anything about Palin and I don't want to know anything about her. As far as I'm concerned, this is a smoke-and-mirrors act. She was chosen solely to take some of the rich old geezer stink off of McCain, to make him look a little more hip and, I'm sure, in the hopes of luring away some of those supposedly disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters (because all they wanted to do was vote for a woman -- any woman -- right?)

I don't give a shit who McCain's running mate is, he's still the guy who'd be president. Everything about McCain is wrong for this country. Everything. He's a hot-headed liar, a filthy rich old country-clubber, golf-carting around in Ferragamo loafers while the country rots and claiming, nope, nuthin' wrong here! He has no knowledge of and zero interest in the lives of the vast majority of Americans and he has no ideas and nothing to offer except four more years of decline, decay and destruction. And if the citizens of this country are stupid enough to elect him...what can I say? They deserve what they get. I'm just sorry I'm gonna be getting it along with them.

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I hope they're not that stupid, too, but then again America did vote George Bush in for TWO terms. :-(

*weeps*

I know this...I know this. And yet, when I'm a pessimist about almost everything else in life I can't give up hope that people - democrats, republicans, independents - are ready for a change.

We need it so very badly.

It's likely I won't even be living in the United States by the time the new president takes office, but I'd like to think that when/if I return, it would be to a better, stronger, wiser America.

*inserts heavy sigh*

It's likely I won't even be living in the United States by the time the new president takes office, but I'd like to think that when/if I return, it would be to a better, stronger, wiser America.

Where are you going? Got any suggestions?

I'm considering taking a job in the Philippines. Nothing glamerous - adventure that would take me away and give me a clean slate and time and distance to devote to some writing. The Philippine people don't yet hate Americans the way the rest of the world (with good cause) does.

I don't know. I just want to be here long enough to vote and then I'm likely Audi 500.

I could never do the tropics. I've been thinking England, myself. Or maybe Scotland. I've known people who have moved to both places and I don't see too much missing of the Good Ol' USA from them.

Of course, an important question is the availability of Supernatural in any foreign outpost. Right now the Thursday night realtime fix is one of the few things I'd miss.

OMG, I love Scotland. If the deal I'm considering in the Philippines wasn't so good (like, really? won't cost me money, my living expenses mostly paid for, and what money I do have spends a lot farther) there'd be more countries on the list: Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Italy...

I have no idea how I'll handle the tropical weather; I'm more concerned about strange new and frightening insects (PLEASE NO ONE SEND ME JPEGS/HORROR STORIES).

One concern I do have id the regular availability of the interwebz because I really do love my online friends and my SPN fandom. But I also like the idea of starting over (scary as it may be) and giving my self time and a situation that will allow me to write more and more often.

When I look back on things like Watergate and the 70's energy crisis and the evacuation of Michigan (where I grew up and a popular bumpersticker in the late 70s/early 80s was 'last one out of Michigan, turn off the lights) and Reagan declaring ketchup a vegetable, etc...is it just the gossamer blur of melancholy, or did the country still seem more...united through all that? I just feel like the rift between the haves and the have nots has grown so tremendously cavernous and wide there's little hope of it being mended.

WHY?

*is a pixie of sunshine today*

I think the country seemed more...awake back then, at least during the 70s. There was at least a sense that things were wrong. Once Reagan came around with his "morning in America" bullshit everyone just rolled over and fell into a fat, complacent stupor.

Yes and in the latest polls McCain and Obama were pretty much even...I mean...WHAT??????