Voter Registration Emergency Blog!

This is serious.  Check out THIS blog.  And be afraid.  Voters are being purged.  Over 1.5 million in NY alone!

 Even if you voted in the primary, MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL REGISTERED!!!  

Here's the Board of Elections number for my New York friends:

212 868-3692

Make sure you're registered, and make sure it's ACTIVE and WRITE DOWN your registration number AND bring ID to you polling place election day just in case.

Oh, and send out my cute video, which also might help.

Socially Incorrect

It's quite funny that the McCain campaign seems to think that accusing Obama of wanting to "spread the wealth" is gonna' piss anyone off other than the millionaires and billionaires  who want to make sure the government keep spreading it to them.  They're also calling him a "socialist", which is news to all the real socialists of the world.  Just read what the real "socialist" left think of Obama.  Google around for recent quotes from people like Cornel West, Noam Chompsky and people like that.  The types of "lefties" that Obama seems to be attracting are people like Christopher Hitchens.  That is to say EX-lefties.  But I digress.

The interesting thing about the "socialist" tag is that it may have worked for John, Sarah and Co. If only they'd stop reminding us all that "socialism" also means "speading the wealth".  I can see Joe Sixpack, (or even Joe the "I'm Not Really A" Plumber) sitting there at home, paying more attention to politics than they ever have before, because 2 of their cousins are in Iraq, they can't get construction or well paying plumping work in this economy, gas is a zillion bucks a refill, and their small IRA or 401k is smaller than ever.  So they're flipping away from NASCAR and checking out some "fair and balanced" news for once.  What do they see?  They see everyone yelling about how Obama's team want to "spread the wealth"!!!!!

"Hmmmm" says fictitious Joe.  "Uh.......yeah........and that's bad because 'a why again?"

I really think this'll backfire for them.  But everything else has too, so why stop now!  McCain should have a new slogan:

"McCain/Palin:  Vote for us!  We'll stop spreading all that wealth!  We'll keep the wealth in one place, where it belongs!!"

Atheists for Obama!!!

Okay, it's been a while.  A month in fact.  I've a been a busy!  But here's the reason I'm bloggin' again.  Christopher Hitchens has endorsed Obama!!  

For those who don't know, in a nutshell, Hitchens is a former super-lefty who went semi-neo-con post 9/11, mostly because he's a big ol' atheist, (like me), and thinks that radical religion was the main reason for the attack.  I think he goes a bit too far with it, but he makes some good points if you read him on a regular basis.

Anyway, while I disagree with his suport for the Iraq war, he's what you call a real maverick. And more importantly, he's a wickedly awesome writer.  He rips Palin a new one so badly in this article that it makes Tina Fey's impression look like a damn tribute.  (Click here to read it.)

Aside from that, I was a bit worried last week that the whole "Ayers" thing was gonna' start working a bit for McPalin, but it turns out that all it did was scare his already stupid base.  Anyone with a brain can see that Ayers is just some old hippie.  So he blew up the Pentagon in the 60's.  Didn't everyone try that at least once back then?  

Seriously, overall I keep marveling at how Obama deals with this stuff.  He really just let's it slide off his shoulders.  I know some people think that that makes him a little "slick willie" like, but I disagree.  All the pundits and bloggers kept saying  "Hit them back harder!"  I say why? He doesn't have to!  He takes the high road while the McPalin team implodes all by themselves.  

But I want to be clear.  I think Obama takes the high road for two reasons.  1.  It's the smarter political move with the awful GOP ticket he's facing, and 2. He really thinks it's important that we change how we elect people in our country.  Everyone says that the debates are boring, but I freakin' love 'em! Really listen to Obama this Wednesday.  He's not afraid to explain semi-complicated ideas to the electorate.  And he does it without sounding condeseding. 

Also, if you listen to his stump speech about treating clean energy like we treated the moon shot, it's really inspiring.  Yeah, it's a bit of a bite from Kennedy, but so what?  The fact that he's willing to use the bully pulpit of the White House to actually CHANGE people's minds is simply a wonderful thing.  Cult of personality be damned.  There's a REASON he's as wildly popular as he is.  Yeah, he's young, good looking, charming and a great speaker, but he ALSO has tons of fucking substance.  And people who say he doesn't are simply not paying attention.

I may be drinking the Kool-Aid, but I just think he's the real deal.  I'm sure his first 100 days will tell us if we're right.  But for the next 3 weeks, I'm gonna' be a non-cynical, liberal, Atheist New Yorker and actually believe in a power greater than myself.  

Amen!  

Obama '08.