Be Great Like Erie

This is what I'm wearing today for you, Ohio! Bring it home, and be great. If you're waiting in line, stay in line! They have to let you vote if you're in line, whatever time it is! Ohioans, bring the people in line some donuts!

This counts for you, too, Pennsylvania! And Michigan, and Virginia, and Florida, and, aw, heck, everybody. Don't let billionaires' money count more than your votes.

It's that time, Ohio. Let's do this.

Seven Days

Seven more days, Ohio.

Seven days, Florida. And Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and North Carolina. Seven days, Colorado, and Indiana. Seven days to go. Seven days to get it right. One week to say bye-bye to Bush, and, to make sure these are the last seven days for McBush, too. He'll be just fine in the Senate, thanks. Seven days, United States, to volunteer, give money, talk to your neighbors, and your family, and your friends. Seven measly days, United States. Just make sure to show up in seven days, and don't leave until you get to vote. What other election will be more important?

West Virginia, A Good Neighbor

I like this recent speech, given by Joe Biden, over in West Virginia, highlighted over at DemConWatch.

Come On, Swing Staters!

Don't think for a second that this is over, or that this won't still take effort.

We need this, my family needs this, my country sure as heck needs this; and even though I live in a city, I still think of myself as a "Real American", you betcha, and I bet everybody else in our cities do, too. Way to be even more divisive, McBush/Palin, right when our country needs unity. Real classy, guys. You sure are coming off as representing the people of your country reeeaal well. Real inspiring as potential leaders.

Original art here, with proceeds going here.

Sixteen Days Left

Yes, I know that Joe, the Not-Actual Plumber, is from Ohio, and that Joe, the Not-Actual Taxpayer (according to records), wouldn't pay higher taxes under Obama, despite all that John McCain tries to claim, in another gross and desperate attempt to pretend that McCain is a "friend" to middle and working-class people. "My friend", "my friends", "my old buddy Joe", etc., etc...come on, do you really think Mr. McCain would really be a "friend" to any of us, if given the chance? Maybe he'd put us up in one of his eight (to ten) houses, in quite a friendly gesture.

Ohio, I swear I would forever forgive you for going to the "W." side in 2000, and 2004, if you just do that which i know you're capable of, and rightly motivated to do, and vote for the candidates that actually speak for you, Misters Obama and Biden, on November 4th. Wouldn't that just feel awesome, voting for the candidates that you actually have hopes for, and inspiration about?

The only thing the McCain-Palin campaign truly inspires is hate and division, in a backwards, fear-mongering, classless way, which crassly treats Americans as caricatures of themselves, and caricatures of their beliefs and dreams. Like there's only one kind of American, and if you're not 100% in that moose-hunting helicopter, then you might as well be a terrorist.

I've seen these Palin-McCain rallies; and there's no way Mrs. Cheney/McBush are trying to quell notions of hate and fear-driven politics. It's filthy how they're running this thing, and it certainly isn't patriotic, or American, or "Country First". Notions of "Country First" got thrown out immediately when Mrs. Palin was selected as the next President-in-Waiting, by our Melonoma-suffering 72-year-old. If no one hears that clock tick-tick-ticking, you're simply delusional. What a crass, desperate, and dangerous selection, just for some headlines. Is anybody falling for these parlor tricks?

Any possible points that John McCain may have scored in his career have been completely wiped out by this pathetic, false, and completely dirty campaign. And it really is a shame. What's going on there? Whatever it is, it certainly isn't Presidential.

Ohio deserves a better president, along with every other state. This election can be amazing, if we want to make it amazing.

I want an amazing America. I think I see a good leader for such a thing.

Please, Ohio.