October 27, 2008
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not even a second try — token only
This morning I had written an eloquent post advocating informed voting. It vanished when I tried to post it.
Roger the electrician arrived a few hours later than noonish yesterday, had to leave once to get a tool he hadn’t brought and a few times to smoke cigarettes (no smoking in my house), and although his professional skills may be excellent, his people skills and mental health could stand some improvement. I’m mentally numb from the day yesterday and physically exhausted from getting my furniture and household items out of Roger’s way, trying to stay out of his way in the process, and from a little BIG winterization job Doug and I did this morning, covering our large front window with poly sheeting.
I haven’t the time or energy to reconstruct this morning’s work. Retain your right to bitch about the government. Inform yourselves about the candidates and issues, then vote.
Comments (14)
Just a thought…
On your main page, in the panel on the left, click on “Safemode” and then on “Weblog Entries”
“Your Last Five Weblog Entries
If your site broke while you were editing a Weblog Entry, then you can click to “Edit” or “Delete” the entry below.”
No promises, but your ‘lost’ post may be there -depending on the whims of Xanga.
@pixie_taker - Thanks for the tip, but it didn’t get that far.
…choose
choose from the two options or face losing the right to choose.
i guess i’m quite like roger, proficient at the technical things but lacking in the social skills…i am glad to hear that your electrics are in better shape now.
Sorry to hear you lost your entry. That’s happened to me several times. Nowadays, I hit ctrl-A to select all the text then ctrl-c to copy it, before hitting the “post” button. That way if there is a problem, I can always go back and paste the content again.
Sorry you lost your post. Hate when that happens.
As for the vote… already did.
I plan on exercising my rights and am actually looking forward to November 4th this year. I can’t wait until Obama gets into office and am excited to be witnessing such a historical election.
What do you think of Palin’s future in the Republican party? Do you think Alaska will welcome her back with open arms? Do you think she would ever do anything like host a show on FOX (like Huckabee) or do you think she’s going to “aim for the stars” and try to run in 2012? There has been such a backlash against her I can’t imagine that the RNC would entertain the idea. My fantasy is that she goes back to Alaska, finishes out her governorship, and then is left floundering with her 35.00 wedding band (big deal, I can’t believe that that actually came up in a stump speech). Oh, Susu, I can’t stand her. I don’t even have the words to express how disgusted I am by the arrogance and the ignorance that is all bundled up in Sarah the Barracuda. Haven’t heard that little nick-name in a while, wonder why. Perhaps because they had to stop using that Heart song at rallies?
For someone who bills herself as a “Washington outsider”, she’s certainly done a lot of courting of these elites she claims to despise.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=1
I can understand how there is a certain group of people that are attracted to her. What I am puzzled about is if she is completely genuine in her “average Joe” behavior or if that is a persona she cultivates, and if it is, did she come up with this strategy? Because the more I read about her, the more freaking amazed I am at her arrogance. She’s had her eye on DC for quite a while now? What is this person thinking and why is she thinking it? I can’t believe that she can look herself in the eye in the mirror every day and think, “You are qualified.” And it really frustrates me that there’s this group of people out there who are (I think) so bitter and so resentful about their lots in lives that they think that she’s the answer. They hear her sarcastic drivel and her confusing sentences (I actually have trouble trying to figure out what she’s saying sometimes, for crying out loud – do these people speak a languaget that I don’t know?) and they are energized by this? They can look at her and see a qualified candidate? The gaffes, the ignorance? Doesn’t matter. I would like to see an in-depth psychological study of Palin supporters.
@quitchick - The first time I heard Palin talk was when she was running for mayor of Wasilla. What made an impression on me was that same thing you mention: sentences that don’t make sense. When she was running for governor, there were a lot of questions about her stance on abortion rights, gay and lesbian issues, environmental policy and other things that people knew she had concrete and controversial ideas on. She weaseled out of every such question in debates and on-air call-in shows, speaking gibberish or running a canned speech about defending the constitution of the state of Alaska.
I kept hoping the hosts and moderators would repeat or rephrase the questions or ask her what she meant by her non-responsive answers. I suspect that the only people who are impressed by her rhetoric are so stupid they are accustomed to not understanding half of what is said to them.
Your fantasy of her returning to Alaska and sinking into obscurity is what she deserves. I only wish she could do the dive into obscurity without returning here, but she does at least have the Troopergate finding hanging over her when she gets back, that she was indeed guilty of abuse of power. Since the party realized it wasn’t in its best interests to have her in the spotlight and I haven’t had to listen to that grating voice every time I turn on the radio, I have been enjoying her absence. The state does just fine without her.
Last week while I was in Wasilla, I saw a minivan with a half dozen Palin or McCain/ Palin stickers on the hatch. One said, “From Wasilla to the White House, NOW!” and another was in the simple format of the official McCain over Palin sticker, only it had Maverick over Barracuda. I looked at the van in wonder for a moment, then decided it must be a member of her church.
So what was wrong with the electricity?
Oh no… First it’s Joe, now maybe ‘Roger the Electrician’? How is he voting? Someone is calling me sometime this week to pitch for the Georgia woman from the Green Party. I’ll listen anyway. Take care.
An uninformed populace = a weak democracy.
It’s something that could use a lot of improvement, and I’ve been scheming. Scheming about different ways of tackling this problem…
@SuSu - Maverick over Barracuda? Oh, sigh.
Yes, I really wish that more people would play “Hardball” with her, but she’s so arrogant she doesn’t even think she has to answer the questions. That bs at the debate about “I may not answer the questions the way the moderator wants me to, blah blah blah”? That is NOT Maverick behavior, that is a sheer disrespect for the office that she’s running for, if you ask me. And yet people buy into that and see it as an act of “rebellion” against Washington insiders. Now, I don’t think that rebellion against DC insiders in necessarily a bad thing, but when I think of that I think more along the lines of Paul Wellstone, and not Palin.
@quitchick - ”disrespect for the office that she’s running for”
That characterizes Palin’s political career from the start. Her first act as mayor was to hire a city manager. Until her, Wasilla had working mayors. She made it a ceremonial position with dictatorial powers. As governor, she has delegated much of her work and authority to old friends from school and church. She put her best friend from high school in charge of agriculture because she “always loved cows.”
She claims that she is still running Alaska government as she campaigns. The state is paying a school buddy of hers now, several thousand dollars a day, to travel with her and “coordinate” with the administration in Juneau. I doubt that she’s paying any less attention now to the nuts and bolts of governing than she ever did before. She surrounds herself with sycophants and old friends, holds court for favor-seekers bearing gifts, and leaves the details to others. It would work if she had any skill or scruples in delegating, but she doesn’t.
@jesusthepsychic - I’m not sure Roger will be voting. He would probably vote for whichever party he thought would bring back some of his favorite drugs, ones that were either taken off the market or removed from the medicare schedules. His favorite topic of conversation is his mental illness, and he continually repeats, “I’m not that nuts,” in reference to just about any topic.
@mysticalchild - The wiring…. this old trailer was built with aluminum wires. Outlets in the front room went dead several years ago and we have been pulling current from outlets in the back with extension cords to power small-draw appliances like the computer, and have been doing without the heavier-use things such as space heaters. Now we have 150 feet of copper wires and five new outlets, including a shielded one on the outside, to plug in my car’s engine block heater.