If I vote for McKinney and McCain wins, don’t blame me, blame Barack Obama and the Democrats who refused to look seriously at candidates who offered alternatives to Republican policies!
I am irritated at Obama and at a few other things, but I am actually in an excellent mood because I have been hanging out at a good university and a good conference.
It has been some time since I’ve been excited about the next day the night before, because on the next day I will get to keep writing an academic piece. I can say this, and this, and this, I crowed last evening.
I keep thinking my problem in life is that I am not interested enough in what I do to be willing to do it in circumstances antithetical to it. But if I displace myself to an environment which has anything at all to do with what I do, I change completely.
To keep political disillusionment in perspective and celebrate writing we feature today Geoffrey Philp’s excellent post on why he blogs.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
That excitement about what you’re writing is great–hope it’s catching!
I would vote for Mckinney. She doesn’t play. I met her once when I was a radio disc jockey in Savannah, GA. Back then, Savannah was part of her district. I enjoyed meeting and talking with her.
O good – McKinney 2012! Writing, yes, I hope it catches and steps up – and it’s just gotta last!
It can be hard to do things sometimes. A book I can recommend, which I got recently is this one.
It’s a bit dated in some respects, and you commented on my recent blog entry concerning a flaw I saw in its overall perspective. Yet, I think you would find much to relate to – especially in the introductory chapters.
OK, I’ll put this on my list. I’m sure you’re right.
Me, I have a lot of planets in the 5th house in Libra and that means context and setting matter a lot.
We got our cards read today and it was very interesting! Mine said I should move out of the Third World (and by that did not mean mean Peru).
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Libra, in Australia, are sanitary pads.
Ay – about 8% of the population must have a sun sign in Libra, they need to change the name of those pads!
I suggest naming them Fred. Or Thomas.
Hey waitjustadoggoneminutenow.
I studied Obama’s policies INTENSIVELY before getting involved in his campaign.
I PICKED him out of the wide field of “hey, should we draft _____?” (after my first pick, Russ Feingold, told drafters, “For the last time, I am NOT running! Thanks but no thanks!”) to throw my support & encouragement to and kept reading policies as he came out with them post-entering-the-race.
My $$$ and work for him in the Democratic primary process went proportionately with the degree to which I agreed w/ his policies, thankyouverymuch.
(Of course, one of the things I’m regretting now is that I didn’t refuse to join the effort until I got my one last question answered…*sigh* (That question was, “Do believe that it is ever okay for the United States to, covertly or openly–perhaps even more importantly, covertly–take down the elected leaders of another country because the U.S. government extremely strongly disagrees with the political stance that that country’s leadership has taken?”))
Anyway, that said…at least Green Party candidates are a little more accessible, I imagine, being a small party and all. And though I’m sure she’ll be less accessible now than she would’ve been when she was a mere challenger…I’m gonna give McKinney that question I’m kinda kicking myself for not asking everyone I thought about supporting for the Democratic primaries. If she knocks the answer out of the fence…absolutely voting for her. (Unless, say, Obama writes me a personal letter knocking the answer out of the park, too, and swings towards beating her on policy…but then, you’d think we’d all see a nice change in that case.) And even if she doesn’t, I’m going to give her policies a lot more attention and, if I like them a lot, vote for her in November.
I am SO excited she won the nomination. I was worried someone else would get it.
I was a Kucinich voter, or maybe a Gravel voter, then was going to vote for Edwards. Voted for Obama over Clinton because when my state´s primary came they were the only two left. They were the centrist candates, Republican lite … Edwards was the standard old fashioned liberal Democrat … the other two were a little more left leaning than that.