Thanks, Dave!, for your post that led me to this Molly Ivins article.
Some good quotes from the article:
Take “unpatriotic” and shove it.
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.
And if there’s nobody in Washington and we can’t find a Democratic governor, let’s run Bill Moyers, or Oprah, or some university president with ethics and charisma.
So let’s go find a good candidate early and organize the shit out of our side.
Oh, hell, just go read it. I’m normally pretty solidly noncommittally apathetic that politics will change anything. The closest political label I’d give myself is “self-absorbed liberal tendencies with an eye toward guilty social conciousness”. At the risk of sounding like I have a political predisposition, though, I have to admit I not only liked the article, I’m purposely searching for more about it. It’s as if I’m channeling the soul of someone who still gives a sh*t.
I used to care less… then one day I realized this wasn’t just a nightmare and I wasn’t going to wake up.
ahhhhhhhhhh! why’d you have to go and say that? it makes total sense to me and shatters my fantasy world. sigh. now i might even have to vote. you suck.