Barock The Votebama!

Nothin'. I got nothin'. I just wanted to put my little play on words out there. You know, for happy election day. Which, by the way, is today if you're voting for Obama, and next Tuesday if you're voting for McCain. Yeah, it's a new rule. Like early voting and superdelegates. It's a new rule that's going to be used by the losing side to accuse the winning side of vote fraud. If Obama wins, you watch; FOX News will be making innuendos, (In your endos) if not outright accusations of electoral fraud related to early voting or perhaps, ironically, some sort of shady business at the polls in Ohio & Florida. That would be awesome. And if McCain wins, FOX News will be all like what? That was fair.

On the other hand, if McCain wins, that's exactly what me and Oliver Stone will be saying. Or perhaps not... I did go see W. last week, and it's disappointingly short of conspiracy theories. He didn't even try to cover the shady business in Ohio or Florida back in 2000, Ted Kennedy's accusations of fraud in 2004, or that day with those flying tin can thingies and the buildings that fell down and went boom. Maybe he's saving those subjects once the not-as-crazy-as-they-once-seemed conspiracy theorists get a chance to self-publish their investigative material.

But what was great about W. was the Rorschach Test that is Dubya. On the surface of the movie, Dubya came across as a pretty normal guy who constantly has more food in his mouth than a person normally should. Interesting depiction, by the way. Even while he was making the worst Presidential decisions imaginable, he seems pretty well meaning, even affable, if misguided perhaps. But hardly the demon he seems like from a distance. But if you look closer, after the credits roll and you've thought about it a bit, it's a more damning portrait than you might at first glance think.

I'm not going to say much about it though, because like I said, it's a Rorschach Test and the important thing is what you take away from it, if you ever see it, not what I think. I'm sure you can guess what my opinion of the man is. The one thing I do want to say though, is that even though it's a cliché, the road to hell is, in fact, paved with good intentions; Even Hitler believed he was doing what was right, all the while using his feelings and his guts as his guides, ignoring the evidence that was all around him that what he believed so strongly was only what he wanted to believe.

Of course, the movie is still merely an interpretation of the events. My gut tells me we shouldn't be so kind to ickle Georgie in the history books. I strongly believe, in the absence of any real evidence available to me, that he purposefully misled the nation and probably has nonconsensual sex with goats while feeding on aborted baby fetuses. But that's just an opinion, you know, don't take my word for it.

I guess the real point of this post is how different types of people interpret things, and how this election seems to have polarized people into two major groups of different interpretive capabilities. Is this an election which has polarized the Good from the Evil? The intelligent from the deeply stupid? The authoritative from the nonauthoritative? The butter side up from the butter side down? None of the above or all of the above? Humanity confuses me, and while I strongly believe that Obama is the right choice and that the McCain camp is only preying on one type of humanity's inability to deal with their inner conflict of Mind Vs. Fear, that's just my interpretation. I've been wrong before. Besides, it's also entirely possible that by even participating in this election, I have also succumbed to the fear by way of the terror that Palin inspires in me. I mean come on, do I really believe that she's Satan's goat-whore bride? That's just silly.

The brave thing to do might really be to sit it out, since what my actual leftist beliefs tell me is happening is that Obama and McCain are the left and right hands of the Military-industrial complex which murdered JFK, RFK, & MLK. After beating us with the stick in their right hand for eight years, they might let us rest up with a nice carrot from their left hand for a bit.

I know, I know, it's all a bit radical. But I'm feeling quite philosophical this morning, this election day. All my life I've been told that voting is the most sacred duty of every American, and to be fair I've never really believed that so my opinions are already coming out of left field. But I am voting today, for Obama, and it's not because I think Obama is going to save us, and it's mostly not because I think McCain and Palin are going to be another 4 to 8 years of happy-go-lucky skipping to Gomorrah, but because I'm simply tired of being beaten with a stick. Time for some Beta Carotene in my diet.

Comments

[Miss Luongo]

Optimist.

[messiestobjects]

You take that back.

[Gary]

Owen calls Obama Rock Obama. I think that should be his name. It's pretty tough sounding.

Oh and you're totally right about the right hand left hand carrot beating thing. But it's ok to pull the wool over your own eyes and be happy about Obama if he wins. It's the best we're capable of right now.

[messiestobjects]

Is it pulling the wool over your eyes if you're not really fooling yourself? I think it's more like sitting on the reflective side of one of those one way mirrors.

[Gary]

No I guess it isn't. But I said it's OK to do, since we've already given up on any other alternatives. Might as well drink the Kool-aid hehehe ;)

[Miss Luongo]

Gulp, gulp, gulp. Aaaah. De-licious.

[messiestobjects]

Kool-aid, yummy. Oh and I knew that your kid calls him Rock Obama, which is totally cool. That's what gave me the idea for the title of the post. That and the fact that I am unable to ever ever get that stupid MTV phrase out of my head around election day, dammit.

[Miss Luongo]

Gary, don't you get enough credit for giving us ideas? Psh. Now we have to start crediting Owen.

[kc]

I am interested in the perceptions that you did not post.

Also, you capitalized "Beta Carotene", which I find highly interesting.

[messiestobjects]

Which perceptions might those be?

And I am a bit of a Capitalizer. I often capitalize inappropriately... just like I'll type alot instead of a lot. What goes on in my head is usually not correct grammar, but it sounds right, so I type it that way and notice later that it's wacky. For instance, in this very post I wrote "me & Oliver Stone", which should be Oliver Stone & I, but I don't care I'm leaving it that way, because it sounds right in that instance. And now I have to leave it as Beta Carotene, otherwise your comment won't make sense. Ah well.

[kc]

Your perceptions about the movie. duh.

[messiestobjects]

Oh that... well, you know. Basically what I actually wound up saying with the road to hell being paved with good intentions, that G.W. is actually pretty evil because he refused to hear anything other than what he wanted to hear, believing that he was right despite all the evidence, despite the fact that he knew he was only starting that war to one-up his daddy and to make Cheney's plan of a permanent US presence in the middle east come true, and that he willingly convinced even himself that he was doing it for the world, to find those dirty WMD.

The worst kind of evil is that which believes it's own fabricated rhetoric.

[dcp]

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