A great big “fuck you” to the warmongers, the fearmongers, the hatemongers, and the neocons. Last night, we said to them, “You can’t scare us anymore.” And we shoved their Iraq and their 9/11 whoring and their Iran threat and their WMDs and their pre-emptive doctrines and their Gitmo and their torture right up Dick Cheney’s ass…
I am also exercising my right to privacy, and I don’t have to tell anybody who I vote for, nobody does, and that’s really cool about America also.” - Sarah Palin, I shit you not.
Obama’s approach to the whole campaign has been incredibly straightforward: He is not running to be your buddy, Americans. He is running to be your president. He’s not gonna say he likes your fuckin’ pork rinds just to make you like him. (The times he veered briefly into that kind of pandering were just embarrassing, and he’s avoided them since the primaries.) And he’s not gonna stand for the kind of fucktardery that’s taken down Democrats the last two elections, as well as during the Reagan/Bush years. Yeah, he addressed each thing that McCain mentioned, but he cut McCain’s nuts off and held them up for McCain to see when he turned it back on the Republican: “I think the fact that this has become such an important part of your campaign, Senator McCain, says more about your campaign than it says about me.
If she wins, I’m done. I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.
McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama’s character, he described the Democrat as a “decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.
After the election, in the interests of national reconciliation, I imagine Obama and Biden may allow McCain to make special non-custodial visits to his testicles.
