Well, what did you all think?
Obama finally managed to sell me on himself after I already voted for him, rofl. (Absentee, so my ballot already got mailed in this past Saturday)
McCain proved to be hopelessly nervous and fidgety in his reactions to things, some of the views he espoused frankly scared the living bejesus out of me(Mother's health is a' extreme pro-abortion' viewpoint? EXCUSE ME?), and he proved to be massively out of touch - Equality of schools? What county does he fucking live in? I went to two different high schools, one of them a California school in a poor hispanic/african-american community, and one in a rich nearly exclusively white community in North Carolina. The difference between these schools and the opportunities they were able to provide and the teachers and the textbooks and EVERYTHING was MASSIVE. Just... Holy shit, do we live in the same fucking country, McCain?
McCain talked housing, Obama talked jobs. I'm a lot more interested in jobs, thanks, I need one, I'd like to keep my car, the fuck with housing. Obama shares my views on abortion and on Roe v. Wade and instead of dodging the issue and providing some half-response like so many people do brought it out in the open and talked about it in detail, something that I personally was really glad to hear.
So yeah, between McCain's nervous morse-code blinking, clenched forehead, eyebrow acrobatics and goodjobgoodjobgoodjob; his scary as living shit views and his complete failure to be in touch with anything I give a damn about, I'm now even more against him than I was in the first place. I don't want this scary bigoted scaremongerer who's freaking out at a bloody debate in office. And Obama's stances and ideas and the calm, collected image he was able to maintain and present made him come across as someone who, while I'm still not completely won and do still have some reservations, I can at least feel somewhat OK with having as the president. Biden got me to vote for his ticket in the VP debate, and then tonight Obama reinforced that with me.
Though I really wish BOTH of them would have shut the hell up about Joe The Plumber. It was old by the end of the first time it was mentioned.
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