[Kat - a real live undecided voter]
I'm undecided because I haven't really watched or read much campaign stuff until now. And, I'm not too excited about the choices. It's like having to choose between catching cancer or liver disease. Either one is going to kill you, but no doctor will give you straight odds over which one is going to do it faster. So, I figure, I don't have much to loose by remaining undecided and really taking a hard look at all of the candidates.
I think Obama could be the one. I caught his ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday. He's like the candidate of love, peace, hope and stark white shirts. I was completely blown away! I mean, he was like the only one that had the money and class to buy space right in the middle of America's favorite sport, next to the ad with the lizards dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thrilla'". Who said Hillary was the only one that could triangulate?
You know, his message just totally blew away the cynical, warmongering republican in me:
We can end the war!We can save the planet!
There's no reason why anyone should be poor in the United States!
Right after that, I felt like inhaling what Bill Clinton never did and Hillary might have; but don't ask her about it, or tell 'cause there are way too many park benches around here.
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Anyway, I'm watching this ad and I was waiting for him to rip open his stark, white shirt to show the world a giant green "O" on his chest while a gleaming sparkle ripped off his pearly white teeth. Wouldn't that be cool? Instant world respect, baby. At least among the voters aged 13-22. The only worry Super Obama has is that I'm sure I saw an episode where Hex Hillary surrounded him with metabolife and he whithered away to nothing. That is not cool!
Then there was that whole "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" with the Kennedy's up on stage endorsing him as the next JFK. Except, you know, Obama never fought in a war, had a PT 109 blown out from under him and for sure Oprah is no Marilyn Monroe. That whole JFK comparison thing was the only thing that gave me pause. Every time someone gets compared to JFK, they end up dead. Robert? Little John? Probably why Ted has tried really hard to not be like him. So I figure I'm going to have to vote as much for his VP as for Obama, just in case.
You know, though, I never thought of Teddy as the purveyor of "hope" and "change". I mean, come on, he's been in congress for thirty years and looks like he ate "hope" as an appetizer with his martini. Having him up on the stage with the candidate of "hope" and "change" was just a little too ironic even in a really ironic election year.
Still, what's really great about Obama is that I have no idea what his plans are; like how he's going to end the war and save the planet. He's like a wide open, blank book, just waiting for someone to write on him and give him meaning. I mean, he's so blank I don't even know what war he's going to end: Iraq? Afghanistan? The Chadian Rebellion? Maybe he'll end the Martian Wars and Dennis and Paul will stop getting molested. Wouldn't that be nice?
Plus, I'm pretty patient so I figure a year or so after he gets elected he'll come up with some plan that will stop the Earth from moving incrementally closer to the sun and increasing the core planet temperature by an nth of a degree after every elliptic revolution. I'm all for saving the planet and keeping the winter resorts in Aspen open. Not because I ski, mind you, but because the Kennedy's do. You understand.
Anyway, plan-smam, those things are really over rated. Much better to fly by the seat of your pants and make sh&^ up as you go. That way, if something goes wrong, he can always blame it on someone else because, you know, he never planned it that way. Dude is, like, super smart. He's, like, Super Obama.
Vote Obama '08: The Man Without a Plan
If Obama can't save us, no one can!
(This post was not approved by the Obama campaign nor the owner of this blog. It is strictly the observations of an undecided, independent voter who has never contributed any funds to any political party or candidate for any reason. Neither the length of this post nor the time you took reading it while getting paid for work you didn't do implies any "in kind" contributions to the Obama campaign nor any of his competitors. This disclaimer required under McCain-Fiengold and various other legislature smashing free speech.)
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