WE WARNED YOU!
The Presidential Election is tomorrow. We've had an entire year of campaigning, mud-slinging ads, fact-checking, debates, zingers and Facebook memes, all trying to convince us for whom to vote. And yet, the race is still neck-and-neck!
What shocks me to the core is that any ONE of Mitt Romney's indiscretions should have been enough to effectively kill his campaign, and yet half of the country is still vowing to vote for the man tomorrow! In the wake of the "Occupy Wall-Street" movement, where we kept hearing defiant men and women declare "We are the 99%", where people were up in arms over the conduct of the fat-cat bankers and how they had been spending the bailout money that had been awarded to them to save our economy, the idea that one of those people-the 1% could run for office and even be taken seriously for more than five minutes is beyond me.
Next, we began to hear about the flip-flopping. Depending on which day you spoke to him, immigration was either "what makes this country great" or "the scourge of our country". The day he was no-longer the "Republican Presumptive", but their official candidate for the office of President, he vowed to repeal Obamacare on his first day in office. Later, the whole thing was HIS idea! Assault weapons should be banned because of the threat they pose to law-abiding citizens of our country, then, when he's addressing the NRA, all guns are suddenly the most important items that our citizens can own! (next to an elevator for their Cadillac) The way this man has insulted the American people by implying that we're all just that gullible is severely insulting. And yet HALF of us say they want him in office!
Which brings me to foreign policy. A survey was done recently of other countries and what they think of our current state of affairs. Of twenty-one countries, only ONE seemed to be even remotely interested in seeing Romney take the Oval Office: Pakistan. Of course, they're still a little sore over our boys in Seal Team Six coming in and popping Bin Laden in the eye… "Russia is our number one geopolitical foe"? Does he not remember the Cold War? I grew up in the 80's, when the fear of a nuclear holocaust was something that was constantly in the backs of all of our minds. I'd prefer not to piss off Russia again, thank you very much. This is to say nothing of how he was booed off of the stage when he went to visit Poland or how he insulted our closest ally, Britain with his remarks about the 2012 Olympics!
Then there is his lovely wife, Ann, with her contemptuous attitude toward us.
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My wife applied for a job as a librarian the other day and even SHE had to provide ten years’ employment history!And in the final days before the election, a super storm wipes out New York City! Anyone with a brain, who is running for President of the United States would have seen this as an opportunity to rush over (after first stopping to buy a new pair of jeans and another plaid shirt) and help the people who are in need there.
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Federally-funded relief programs, like FEMA, are "immoral"?And now, it looks as though this man STILL has a chance to be voted into office.
I haven't even really talked about the fact that numerous economics professors have demonstrated that his "five-point" plan is mathematically impossible. I haven't said anything about Paul Ryan. I haven't begun to speak about the hypocrisy behind Romney's condemnation of Obama, chiding him publicly for not clearing up the mess that Dubbya left behind with only four years to do so, while admitting that his plan will take eight to ten years to have any real effect on our economy. Some of us are looking forward to the day after tomorrow; we'll be happy to log into Facebook and find the same old familiar pictures of people's dinners and pictures of them with their boyfriends and girlfriends. We're all just a bit tired of the rain of emails filling our boxes daily with requests for money to help our candidates to buy more airtime, and we're sick of hearing about how we need to get everyone we know and go to the polls to vote as though our future depends on it, because it does.
But what about the next four years? In a country this divided, how is it going to feel, no matter who wins? The next time you're at a party, when you ask someone how they're doing, you will run a 50% chance of the reply being some jaded, cynical and frustrated remark about how nice it is that the other guy is in office. For the next four years, half of everyone you know will have an automatic excuse to have a bad day, and if you happen to have wanted "the other guy", well, it's probably best for your friendship if you just try to avoid reminding him of that. Here's to a long four years, folks…
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