I’m having a helluvatime waking up this morning, so I’m not sure how eloquent I can be right now.  But I’m gonna give it the old “college try”.

I watched the debates last night with Sully, and if my 10 year old can see through McCain’s bullshit (without any coaching from me), I don’t understand why the rest of the country can’t.  It’s interesting to hear a child’s commentary with something like this.  He has enough basic understanding of the issues to get a general idea of what the candidates were arguing about (though I had to explain a few of the details and politician-speak phrases to him).  But Sully’s main observation was that McCain not only didn’t answer any of the questions with direct on concise responses; but even when Obama thwarted accusations thrown at him, McCain still clung to the original accusations as if no explanation from Obama was ever given.  I can’t even count how many times McCain would accuse Obama of something or mangle Obama’s stance on an issue, then Obama would explain (in simple enough terms for my kid to understand) what the facts actually were, THEN McCain would jump right back in with the original mangle…. and then Sully would say “Wasn’t McCain listening?  Obama JUST EXPLAINED THAT?  GEEEEEZZZZ!!!!  What’s wrong with that guy?”.

Out of the mouths of babes.

But apparently a good percentage of our country’s population doesn’t have the intelligence of a 10 year old, because the polls and pundits are saying that anywhere between 31%- 46% of our country think McCain did a good job last night.

But something that Sully and I also noticed was that NOTHING frazzled Obama.  McCain had to resort to snide remarks and witty little comments (or at least HE thought they were witty… there was much eye-rolling from me and Sully in response to McCain’s “wit”), having to always have the “last word”- no matter how petty and vindictive it made him look.  And it did make him come across as petty, and desperate, and pathetic.  Where Obama calmly and precisely outlined his plans for helping the economy and the middle class, and our broken health care system.  Obama came across as graceful and level-headed under pressure.  Exactly what we need.

I’m also REALLY tired of people having a problem with allowing the government to provide health care for people who can’t afford it.  I’m sick of people saying that “socialized health care” is a scary thing.  Socialism DOES NOT equal communism.  Come on you ignorant fuckers- wake up!!!  We already have socialized systems in practice in our country!!!  Our police force is socialized!  Our military is socialized!!  Would you like to do away with our police and make that a private practice?  Then each neighborhood will pay a private group of roaming thugs with little training or legal guidelines to protect your area?  How well would that go over?  You may have the argument that our police force is already like that- but at least when you call in for emergency help, they have to come, AND there are strict guidelines on how they handle emergency situations.  And at least that assistance is provided to the entire country instead of just “those who can afford it”.  “Socialized” health care would mean that no one would have to go without medical care.  Children, the elderly, the poor, etc, would all be able to get medical treatment, which would mean less expenses for the hospitals, insurance companies, and the tax payers for having to pay for medical treatment of people who have received aid without insurance.  COMMON SENSE, DIPSHITS!!!

And did anyone else catch McCain’s response to the Roe v Wade topic?  When he was asked whether or not he would ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court that disagreed with his strict pro-life stance (which the next president WILL be electing new members of the Supreme Court), McCain fumbled around and gave a bunch of political babble about only electing qualified people…. THEN he slipped in the end really quickly:  “I don’t believe that someone who has supported Roe v Wade would have those qualifications”.

Did you catch that?  It was pretty tricky (though Sully picked up on it).  McCain DOES NOT believe that anyone who supported Roe v Wade is qualified to be on the Supreme Court.  Which means that, Yes, he will keep people out of the Supreme Court who would fight him in overturning Roe v. Wade… because he DOES want it overturned.  He wants the laws to be put into the hands of the state.  INSANE!!  So if you live in a state where abortion is illegal, and you’re a minor who was raped by your father and get pregnant, you have to travel to the closest state where abortion is legal in order to get one.  Or lets say that  I get pregnant despite all my birth control efforts, and as a grown woman who already has a child and knowing full well that my family doesn’t have the resources or ability to care for another child, I have to actually take time off work and a family road trip to a different part of the country to get an abortion if it’s illegal in my state?  Are you fucking kidding me??  I hate you, John McCain.  You’re a rich old white male who will NEVER EVER have to make that decision, so keep your fucking ignorant one-sided opinions out of my uterus.  I want to bitch-slap that dick until his eyes bleed.

But Obama made my heart warm when he strongly stated that he is in full support of Roe v Wade, and that these hard decisions should be left in the hands of the people who are affected by it.  I love you, Barack Obama.  There’s nothing lovlier than a male feminist.

Overall, I have no idea how some news reports can state that McCain won the debate (well, only 1 did… but even Fox News is saying that their advisors stated that Obama won).  And I have no idea how after these debates people are still clinging to Relic McCain.

But now that the debates are over, the time to vote is coming up fast.  For all of you who are registered, and would like affordable health care, and would like clean energy, and would like to decide what happens to your own body, and would like to be able to go to college without INSANE student loans, and would like to see an end to this stupid war so that money can go back into things like public schools and programs to help people in need, etc etc etc…. vote Obama.  PLEASE keep McCain from getting his old and gnarled clutches on our country.

And if you didn’t register to vote, you’re a douchebag.

Off to work I go.