Short post, since the stuff in my draft post is too old and out-of-date now.
I got a call from a man (?) named Michelle (?) from
Hillary Clinton's campaign today.* They wanted to know if I had any time to volunteer for the campaign now that there's only a couple of weeks left
in her campaign until Ohio's Primary date.
I assume they got the number from the time I bought Gram a t-shirt from
Hillary's site. Even though basically all of my time is free at the moment, I still said I didn't have any time. When he said "No time?" as in "No time at all?" I fell back on a variation of Dick Cheney's "
I have other priorities" line.
Plus, I wouldn't be able to put my heart** into it, since I don't really support her campaign. In what has become a three-way race (Clinton, McCain, Obama), the candidate I want to support is
Barack Hussein Obama.*** (We're going to go to the polls at the same time wearing our candidate shirts...you know, for dramatic effect.)
I could elaborate on why, but based on my experience, I'm fairly sure that no one actually cares. Suffice it to say I don't believe any of the various conspiracy theories or wild-eyed conjecture about any of the three: Clinton will not nationalize every industry and turn us all into
commies; McCain is not a shellshocked/brainwashed old codger rendered insane by his time as a
POW; and Obama is not a Muslim
plant sent to "destroy us from the inside". (If there was any force capable of that, it should be out of office by this time next year.) In addition to whatever other things I'm sure are floating around out there.
I guess that's it for now, or this won't be able to qualify as a short post.
Oh, one last thing: Toshiba isn't going to make HD-DVD players anymore. Who didn't see this coming? Sony wouldn't cut the Playstation brand's momentum by 75% or so without a good reason.
*I know he didn't say "Mitchell" or anything like that. Does this indicate greater support of Hillary among the transgender community? No, because it's a single data point, you jackass. On a tangentially related note, how about that guy on death row who
wants the government to pay for him to get a sex change operation? The fact that the sheer length of his stay on death row has given him enough time to come up with such an inane
non-justification for what he did serves as something of an indictment against the state of the death penalty in our justice system. With all the automatic appeals for ridiculous reasons (maybe if you had better lawyers - ones that would tell you doing Hitler's salute in court was a bad idea in terms of gaining the jury's sympathy - you would have just gotten life in prison for the crime you're obviously guilty of), it'd be easier to just throw them in for life. If you really wanted them dead, you'd put them in the general population anyway.
**twisted, infernal thing that it is
***You know, the black guy.
Labels: 2008 primaries, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, ignorant-ass mother fuckers, John McCain, razor-and-blades sales strategy
