My mental circus, inside and out.

Oh wow, so, Emma has been gone for ages.  Too busy to blog what with the election and all.  Going door to door in her neighborhood, canvassing for Obama, of course, who else, and really nothing much to say about all that because anybody who is sane knows why Obama should win.  It has been a strange and frighening time, like no election Emma can remember since she voted for the first time. . . for Mondale.  Nobody remembers Mondale, but if he had won, maybe the trickle-down economics fantasy would not have become entrenched in the first place, because we can go back to Reagan for that debacle. The Republicans are a very strange mix of extreme right social conservatives and business people who have no sense of social conscience at all.  A Frankestein monster with one crazy brain.  Emma has a sense of extreme dread, even though the poll numbers are fairly robust for Obama, who is calm and rational, if a bit over-the-top in his image-making. . . .even Wonkette can't help but  make good natured fun of "Hopey" sometimes, what with the fascist-dictator-meets-Superman aesthetic of some of the earlier images.  But it all seems to have worked for him.  Comedian Larry Davis says this is like waiting for the results of a biopsy and thank god it will all be over in six days, barrring any wag-the-dog scenario.

Posted by: EmmaPele at October 30, 2008 18:49 | link | comments (1)