one of my favorite authors has apparently committed suicide, which is unfortunate in a lot of ways. it just seems cliché: the depressed genius who self medicates until he can’t any longer stand the possibilities and decides to end his life. I’ve always thought of suicide as a chicken shit option unless maybe you had some serious terminal illness bearing down on you that the pain of that would take away every single good thought you had stored in your life that the idea of facing it is just too much. That I could see. So now I think differently. The ultimate power to guide your life as you see fit rests with the individual. You can argue of an importance greater than yourself I suppose, in that your family and friends are going to be devastated by your absence, which they most surely will. It is an individual life that is led first.
in other news, now it turns out that John McCain and hot pantyhose + heels Palin are doing pretty well, polls wise. Maybe they are not polling the poor black people. Maybe the poor black people don’t really vote. My hope is that they are not polling them and that they will vote, and John McCain and the Alaskan will think they’ve got it wrapped until at the last minute they do not. I am actually betting $60 so far that the American people, en mass, are too short sighted and stupid to actually elect a black man to our highest office. I will vote for him but then I live in North Carolina which I believe still has a few counties left which do not abide by the 13th Amendment.
it is this issue of race that everyone seems so hard pressed to broach. Which is why I want to do so now. There is a chance that people are actually wary of supporting Barack Obama because he is young and technically inexperienced and all of that. There is a much greater chance that they refuse to support him because of the concentration of melanin in his skin. Let’s drop all the pretense. If you are a die-hard Republican, I can see how you would want to go with your man no matter what. To be fair, I did vote for Kerry in 2004, which was more of a turd removal move than anything else. But to be a fence sitter Independent or a Hillary democrat who won’t back Obama based on either fear or taxes or some other excuse is just good old fashioned racism and I’d like to hear someone go ahead and own up to it for once. But no, then you look like an asshole, and no one wants that. So they vote for McCain instead, or they stay home.
it is almost as if our nation’s dirty little secret is becoming too naughty to speak of. Ok, so we had some slaves. Crosses were burned and there may have been a few lynchings here and there. But it’s ok now, enough time has passed. Oh well, maybe not since this all came to a head what forty years ago, give or take? Things get funny with time. Maybe we need more of it to wash over our oppressive nature as Puritans. As Mr. Elliott recently pointed out – people are forgetting that Barack Obama is not only half black, he’s half white (Nutshell Kingdom, c. 2008). Maybe we don’t want to remember that we used to chain people up and whip them and worse or later laughed at actors both white and black in black face dancing around on stage and film. People don’t want to remember bad things, unless you can spin it into a good thing. We don’t need much reminding that the Japanese government attacked us in Hawaii in December of 1941 because we got to retaliate and rid the world of fascism and Adolf Hitler, not to mention a nice piece of payback for the old Japanese. And yes it is much more complicated than that. I’m just boiling it down to make my point. We don’t need reminding what went on in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania in September 2001 because we can go see where the towers used to be. Besides, all of those people who died were white. So brown kills white and we can use it; but if white kills black then that is what? Policy? Well, more like Constitutional law.
so then it seems that Barack Obama’s first sin is having had a Kenyan father with black skin which was genetically transferred to him. I don’t see why McCain does not push this race issue more strongly. “I’m white, vote for me instead.” I could even understand if a male voter wanted to vote McCain based solely on his choice of running mate. She’s hot and she’s got that strong female thing going on that reminds us of mommy and not to even mention the heels she always wears and has her hair up but a little bit still falls in her face and she can shoot a gun and most assuredly ride a snowmobile.
to summarize, if you aren’t voting for Obama, you may be a racist jackass and plus at any rate have zero foresight into what this country needs in the near future and might just be one of those people who went out and bought duct tape and plastic sheeting when you were told to do so.
