I have about a half dozen almost finished posts just waiting for their final touches. Various musings and meanderings about the election, the economy, the general state of the union, and also about the state of my own little union. There's been a lot of twists and turns of events around here, some fantastically good, some a little bad, some turning out to be nothing at all. From our resident five year old starting kindergarten (jesus christ where did the last five years go?) to various trips to Labor & Delivery for the gamut of unexplaining spotting to regular contractions, it's been a busy month. Eventually I'll finish these entries.
But now, I just wanted to take a second to say that although I've been a Denis Leary fan for quite some time (since my mother fell head-over-heels, frighteningly, stalkerishly, obsessively in love with him back in The Ref days) I never quite expected to be moved to tears in one of his shows or films. (That being said, I've never watched Rescue Me, which I'm told is sometimes an extremely depressing show.) However, I just watched Recount. (Made for HBO, also starring Kevin Spacey, about the 2000 presidential election. I highly recommend it.)
I fact-checked while I watch, the movie was pretty historically accurate. And I cried. A lot. I cried thinking about the absolute breakdown in the judicial system, I cried thinking about the people in Florida who felt their voices were not heard, and of course, mostly, I cried for what could have, SHOULD HAVE, been. 8 years that wouldn't have happened. Eight years that I could have gone differently. How, I believe, that we'd now be a country that didn't know the horror of terrorism on our own soil, in our nation's unofficial financial capital. How we could be a country not at war. How we'd be a country not facing economic turmoil.
I say this not to bash Republicans or incite party wars, but to incite voter enthusiasm. Please, PLEASE, vote. Make your voice heard. And if, God forbid, we again see a situation where maybe your vote, or the vote of one of your fellows in this country is NOT being heard, FIGHT. But let's hope it doesn't come to that. Let's hope we can keep it at the easiest, the most basic level of your responsibility to this country.
Please vote.
to be honest, the 9/11 attacks probably would've happened even if bush hadn't been president. same with the economy. bush/republican policies have had very, very little to do with the "economic crisis" that's happening now. you can probably blame a LOT of people for it, bush and the republicans being part of it too, but also the democrats, people who didn't pay their mortgage, lenders who gave people mortgages that shouldn't have ever been thought of, etc. iraq, yeah, maybe that wouldn't have happened, but again, a lot more people besides bush agreed that we should invade it.
sorry to leave a bitchy comment, but i HATE it when people blame this country's mess on one person, because it's way too complicated for that.
Posted by: rachel | October 11, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Funny, I hate it when people are so ignorant that they answer a challenge with nothing to back it up, and are wrong anyway. Go figure.
P.S. Fox News isn't a reliable source
Posted by: Nik | October 12, 2008 at 08:52 PM
then do you care to explain why i'm wrong, and back it up too?
Posted by: rachel | October 16, 2008 at 07:59 AM