tencrush: (Gene Hunt)
tencrush ([personal profile] tencrush) wrote2008-09-04 02:10 pm

AMERICAN POLITICS FOR THE EURO ZONE

This:



Scares the SHIT out of me. Her especially. The idea that these two might actually be elected is enough to make me REALLY REALLY QUESTION our decision to move to SF. PLEASE, SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. PLEASE. I get this powerless feeling of dread every four years, much as I expect other Europeans do. All you can do is just sit and watch while your jaw drops onto the floor at the fact that FUCKING FRIGHTENING gun-toting, fundamentalist, freaky deaky WEIRDOES like this even have a VOICE in that big ole country over there, let alone can stand as candidates for the most powerful job in the world.

Listen, I know loads of Americans, and they're all decent, intelligent, hard-working, perfectly normal people. I lived there. People were normal. And nice. And sane. Those two up there? Their very existence? It's what makes us Europeans look at your country and assume you're all trigger-happy, pro-life, religious zealout, war mongering HICKS who haven't got a brain cell between you. And all we can do is sit here once every four years and shout at you and say PLEASE DON'T ELECT THESE PEOPLE. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? See all those caps up there, I'm trying to express frustration here, because I really, honestly don't know what else to do. The idea that these two even stand a TINY CHANCE of becoming the two most powerful people in the world, not only does it scare me to death, but it's just a fact that I cannot, intellectually, get my head around. It doesn't compute.

Please tell me this isn't happening. Help a non-citizen out here.

[identity profile] love-jackianto.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
'Palin is really working the 'I'm just an average small-town American' thing.'
Yeah, they really want those Hillary supporters. If John McCain didn't pick JUST because she's a women, I'll eat my hat.

'As if educated people are somehow unfit to be President.'
I know what mean; it's like being smart is a bad thing; I don't want some idiot being President (we already had 8 years of that).

Just like how everyone SAYS they're middle class. Jay Leno is middle class, my ass.

[identity profile] alba17.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't McCain say middle-class was income of $5million or less? LOL

I think McCain did pick her because she's a woman, but also because the Republican base would like her. Obviously, they love her.

Someone just sent me this hilarious photo of Palin, I put it on my page.
she's wearing a US flag bikini and holding a rifle! It looks real. If I find out it isn't, I'll take it down. You've got to look at it.
http://alba17.livejournal.com/6808.html

[identity profile] love-jackianto.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
'It looks real. If I find out it isn't, I'll take it down. You've got to look at it.'
I don't think it's real (it's still creepy); Her hands look out of focus, but her face is in sharp focus.

I also found this link Fake Sarah Palin Photo.

'Didn't McCain say middle-class was income of $5million or less? LOL'
He said that!!?? I don't really fellow politics (I'll turn the channel when political ads come on); it just makes me so angry.

Jay Leno's still not middle class. His classic car collection alone costs over $5 million.

[identity profile] alba17.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the link re: fake photo. I put a caveat on it with that link, but I'm going to leave it, at least for a little bit, just because it's funny.

[identity profile] love-jackianto.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome. When I first saw that photo I thought it looked photoshopped, so I did a quick google search.

I thought it was funny.