Grotesques

[oselle]

The McCain-Palin campaign is becoming increasingly ugly and the ticket's supporters are sounding more and more like a raving mob. People at McCain-Palin rallies have started shouting out things like "Traitor!" and "Kill him!" regarding Obama and they've even started lashing out at the press that attend the events. This vicious old man and his ignorant viper of a running mate are riling up the most gutter instincts of the most mindless part of their base and doing it with such shameless falsehood and such repellent good humor that if I saw it in some dystopian science fiction movie I would think it was over the top. Jesus, I'm expecting them any day now to pull off their human heads and reveal themselves as Kang and Kodos.

It boggles my mind that Obama is only eleven points ahead of these two grinning grotesques.

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Well, my dad claims that the stupider Palin sounds, the more Amurricans will vote for them. There is no understanding a big chunk of the population of this country.

[merylmarie.livejournal.com]

Amen. It's downright scary to see the glee in their faces when the crowd reacts.

Did you read this endorsement in the New Yorker? Great writing. Makes me actually appreciate the financial meltdown that's helping Obama get ahead: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oselle, I really hate talking about politics, especially when it's about other countries. But I really, really have to ask this to someone. In the last debate, why did they seem to be busy with tax and tax all the time, while in my opinion that's not really the root of the problem? Why did nobody dare (?) to raise the real problem why the US got to the crisis in the first place, i.e. spending so much on the war?

I really feel ... itchy about this.

Sorry again for meddling in others' affair.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

They're sickening.

[golden-berry.livejournal.com]

It's disturbing that fully 40 % of American voters will always vote Republican, even when they put up the most cringeworthy and batshit crazy candidates.