The first thing that I have to do is say........... HHHHEEELLLLZZZ FFFFUUUUUCCCKKIIIINNN YYYYEEEAAAHHHHZZZ!
Next I have to say "FINALY THE SELIFSH PRICKS AND IGNORANT BASTARDS LOST!"
Then I have to justify that comment.
I first met Logan in 3rd grade. He was known as "Dumbo" because his ears stuck out like he could take flight at any moment. In 5th grade he had surgery on his ears and thereforthe become Logan. My girlfriend in 8th grade dumped me to date him for 2 weeks and then dump him. I was heartbroken.
By 9th grade (Freshman year in highschool) we were great friends, and we've stayed close ever since. In 2004 we were roomates and he was supporting Bush while I wanted Kerry. We had many a fight but maintained our friendship. Now we're both 25 and he has gone from being a real estate agent to running his own energy drink company. It's a small business but he's making much more than I do and he's still very Republican.
Now this is where we get back to my argument. I love Logan and would do anything I could to help him out, but I also think he's a selfish prick and I've told him so to his face. I've mocked his business which is a huge rip off and he's flat out admitted I was right. That's why I love him - he doesn't buy his own BS. I hate that he's fucking idiots over, but at least he doesn't think he's noble.
He decided to vote for McCain because he thought he'd get a better tax break from the Republican side of the ticket. As I've learned from TenBagger, most likely he'd only save $300 under McCain cause he's not making big bank right now. This is why I say that McCain got the "Selfish" votes - they didn't research it hard and any amount over 0 in extra taxes is too much for them.
Next let's go with a guy I met while canvassing for Obama. I knocked on a door looking for a 47 yr old Male named John who had told us he was leaning McCain the last time we talked to him. A ~20 yr old male answered the door, and when I asked for John and explained the past relationship, he told me that he hopes "Obama dies", and asked me why I supported Obama. I asked why he supported McCain and he said "Gimme 3 minutes and you will be a McCain supporter". His first talking point was "Obama hates my mom cause she's white". He followed it up with "Obama is a terrorist" and closed with "Obama wants to raise my taxes". This was almost funny coming from a guy who's family, by the look of his house, would be really lucky to break 60k a year.
We got into a 45 minute conversation where I slowly and kindly corrected him on his BS. He justified the "white hate" by Reverend Wright. I explained that all of my best friends, people I grew up with since 3rd grade and who I'd die for, all voted Bush and are supporting McCain. I pointed out the fact that even though they are the people I spend the most time with, the ones I go out and drink with, the ones who I think of as brothers, I totally 200% disagree with them on political policy issues. If I ran for president as a Liberal and people tried to say I was a right wing Republican because my best friends thought that way, it would be a load of BS, because I don't agree with them at all. The ability to still be friends with them DESPITE our disagreements was a sign of strength, not of weakness. He agreed.
I went on to deal with all of his points in a similar matter, and at the end we shook hands he he told me that even though we were voting for different people, we were still "Americans" and that's what mattered most. I agreed with him wholeheartedly and though he started with a death threat to my candidate, we ended as friends who respected each others beliefs while disagreeing.
I truly believe that if I spent a month with him, 24/7, going over non partisan sites like FactCheck.org and so on, we'd find even more common ground and he'd probably support Obama. He'd been so pumped full of fear by Fox news that a rational conversation was hard for him to achieve.
Now when we take this HUGE FUCKING OBAMA LANDSLIDE (HHHHEELLLZZ YYYEEAA!!!) into account, I think we can definitely say that the ignorant BS and selfish shit finally lost. I'm proud of my country for that and I'm extremely happy to be someone who's blogged for this change over the last 10 months. Thanks to EVERYBODY who has shown support to my blog, and a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who voted Obama. We're on our way to real change!
Yes
We
Did.
EDIT: And for fun, a funny video sent to me by a friend taking Dr. Seuss look at Palin:
god that's so well said, haha, now I feel stupid for not putting that in the original post. How the fuck did I miss classic BW shit talking?!?!?!!? garrrhh!
On November 05 2008 03:51 lebowski wrote:
lol k2o4 I think every time Obama screws up the lp community is going to pm you for explanations
I'm hoping to blog post my criticism / or explanation before I get the PM's, but I will be glad to field em and try my damndest to be objective =)
On November 05 2008 03:56 Silver)Z( wrote:
lol i was waiting for this blogpost. good work xD
hahah <3 sry it was so late, I was out drinking and then once the bar closed, I was trying to buy beer but no one would sell to me. my goal was to get so drunk that I couldn't walk upstairs to my bedroom but the fucking liquor laws ruined that, hehe.
On November 05 2008 04:04 remember87 wrote:
nice coverage k2o4 along the campain! congratulations to Obama too!
Thanks man, I really appreciate that. I've tried to do as much as I could and it seems to have paid off - he got elected! hehe ^^
I really expected to make more enemies than friends by talking politics in my blog, but I got really lucky to find such a great group of people here @ LP. That includes McCain supporters, cause a lot of them have disagreed respectfully and fostered interesting conversation. And the people who have shared my views and showed support in comments gave me the momentum to keep going, and often linked me to fun video's or articles which I'd missed. Blogging this election on LP has been on truly awesome and I really want to thank everyone who's taken the time to read my posts and make comments =)
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