The Invisible Library

Obama’s Speech – This right here is the point of it all:

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

If you’re looking for a difference between Democrats and Republicans, this is it: the Republican party does not think we are better than this. These last eight years? That was on purpose.  The GOP doesn’t think Americans are worthy of Universal Health care, a 21st century infrastructure or any of the other qualities that mark a modern democracy.

The GOP would rather sell off our economy, piece by piece, just to pad the bank accounts of their friends. They want to privatize as much of the government as possible, so that you and me can’t have a say in the future shape of our country. They’d rule us like Medivil Prince’s if they could.

Some of them genuinely think humans as a species aren’t worthy of such liberties, that we were born into a state of ignorance and depredation that should persist, because it is a voodoo curse. Others just think they’re better than the rest of us and so should have more of everything.

Never forget: the Republican Party likes the results of the Bush Administration so much, that they nominated McCain to perform his third term.

And that’s why I’m voting for Obama. Because I disagree. I think we can and will be better.

So, McCain chose a member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus as his running mate. How… apt. This means we are one step closer to having a real life Ministry of Silly Walks, though being the US, we’ll call it a Bureau and it’ll be headed by a Czar. Because 21st Century America = 19th Century Russia, as any historian will tell you.

Originally posted on twitter.

Update: It seems I was misinformed. McCain’s Veep is in fact Sarah Palin, a pro-life, pro-gun* homophobe, not a famously well traveled comedian and writer. Or British.

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* Pro life and pro-gun: You have the right to own a gun but not use it for it’s intended purpose. Also applies to vaginas.