“I hope you are happy.”
“OK, I’ll bite….what am I happy about?”
“This election is going to change everything!”
“I thought that was supposed to be the last election.”
“That was different.”
“Yeah, I guess it depends on how you define change.”
“Why do you keep picking on President Clinton?”
“Never mind.”
I’ve already voted, via the mail, and I gave the PO plenty of time and postage to get the ballot there on time. I voted for a few of the propositions and against the rest. I picked some judges, with absolutely no information to use to decide pro or con. I selected for common sense with the local offices, I hope. And for the state and federal offices, I guess I went for change. Because from where I stand, the state and federal politicians have screwed up things far worse than the locals.
A recovering drunk once told me, “If you keep bumping into a wall, next time, turn”. So I pretty much didn’t vote to re-elect anyone. Actually, the recovering drunk said, “turn left”, and I cannot say I did that this time, cause I mostly voted against the Left. Which is why my invisible friend thinks I’m gonna be happy this time.
Because if the pundits are correct, the Left may suffer more casualties this go around in elections around the nation. And that would be because so many people are angry with them. Interestingly enough, the folks on the Right want those folks out of office for the usual reasons, ie they are too far to the left, and the folks on the Left want them out cause they aren’t left enough. No wonder Obama has that confused look on his face like he thinks he cannot do anything right, or was that left?
My invisible friend is one of those who is disappointed that Obama couldn’t haul the country even farther to the Left. She wasn’t happy with how he dismantled the best healthcare system in the world, but only because she wanted no less than total government control. She thought this was a mark against him, because although he wanted socialized medicine, he gave up too easily.
She has never balanced a checkbook in her life, so she had no problem with Obama's egregious deficit spending. My friend is opposed to closing the borders, cause we “owe those people cause we are too rich”. And she thinks his foreign policy is “cute”, and his naiveté when dealing with Islamic terrorists and Iranian and Korean Hitler wannabes is just “being polite”.
So my friend cannot for the life of her understand the angry voter backlash against Obama and the Democrat leadership that may well sweep in “change”. From my perspective, I don’t see how a single incumbent should be re-elected, from either side this time, so I’m not likely to be happy after this election, either.
Familiarity does not breed contempt when it comes to politicians and voters in California. Most any recognizable face or name can be re-elected indefinitely when we leave democracy to the average voter, which we are expected to do. Total amnesia. Term limits help, but these career politicians just run for election to another government position when they time out of the last one. So we keep electing incompetent, indifferent, ineffective, but hardly innocent machine politicians to state offices.
How else do you explain Jerry Brown’s lead in the race for governor? Does no one remember his last two terms? Governor Moon Beam II. Wonderful.
I hear that one of the medicinal marijuana shops in San Francisco is giving out free doobies whenever the Giants hit a home run in the World Series. That might explain some of this.
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