Hrm. Politics rant.

Well, for some unknown reason I am completely pissed off about politics today. I do not know why. But, sitting for like, two hours with Jamie talking about them is rather fun. I'm just in this mood where I'm pissed off easily or something. And it doesn't help that I have some crazy right wing [though doing decently at hiding it...usually] prof for American Government. We were talking about political parties today and up comes a picture of Bush. I was upset that I had to LOOK at him practically.

The thing is- I really, really just dislike the man. A LOT. I know not everyone on my flist agrees, but that's the truth of it. Part of it's because he can't compose a grammatically correct sentence and say it without stuttering. Another thing is this damn war. And the fact that the response to Katrina was shitty. And the national debt. And this and that and about a million other things.

...The bad grammar just really, really bugs me. I don't like the fact that there are times in which the lady serving my food at Lakeside and the president of my country use grammar on a similar level.

Like Jamie and I were talking about earlier- the major problem in our generation is apathy. No one cares. When things go wrong, they just say 'oh well, what can -I- do?' And consequently, NOTHING EVER GETS DONE. If no one cares, really cares, then nothing will happen. And everything will happen. Nothing good and everything bad all at once. And yet we're still going to call ourselves advanced and better than past ages.

AND HIS GRAMMAR...! arg. In class today, the prof mentioned how Nixon got 93% of Georgia's vote. 'Not even George W. Bush got that!'. My point: NIXON WAS GOOD AT PUBLIC SPEAKING. He was an actor, so DUH. How did we go from that....to this?

There's that ridiculouos idea that people want a president to be on 'their level'. Honestly? I want my president to know MORE than me, especially about running the country and diplomacy. And public speaking? damn useful in diplomacy.

I don't understand it, I hate it. I hate how the only thing about him that seems appealing is,a s Jamie put it, that primal side of you that likes everything to be even and the same- not wanting things to be different. And in BEING different, that can never appeal to me.

Something in me CRINGES when I think back to high school and the 2000 election when I was all 'YAY BUSH!' and such. I postitively CRINGE. Admitting that is almost embarassing.

I need out of Georgia.

Hrm. Politics rant.

Well, for some unknown reason I am completely pissed off about politics today. I do not know why. But, sitting for like, two hours with Jamie talking about them is rather fun. I'm just in this mood where I'm pissed off easily or something. And it doesn't help that I have some crazy right wing [though doing decently at hiding it...usually] prof for American Government. We were talking about political parties today and up comes a picture of Bush. I was upset that I had to LOOK at him practically.

The thing is- I really, really just dislike the man. A LOT. I know not everyone on my flist agrees, but that's the truth of it. Part of it's because he can't compose a grammatically correct sentence and say it without stuttering. Another thing is this damn war. And the fact that the response to Katrina was shitty. And the national debt. And this and that and about a million other things.

...The bad grammar just really, really bugs me. I don't like the fact that there are times in which the lady serving my food at Lakeside and the president of my country use grammar on a similar level.

Like Jamie and I were talking about earlier- the major problem in our generation is apathy. No one cares. When things go wrong, they just say 'oh well, what can -I- do?' And consequently, NOTHING EVER GETS DONE. If no one cares, really cares, then nothing will happen. And everything will happen. Nothing good and everything bad all at once. And yet we're still going to call ourselves advanced and better than past ages.

AND HIS GRAMMAR...! arg. In class today, the prof mentioned how Nixon got 93% of Georgia's vote. 'Not even George W. Bush got that!'. My point: NIXON WAS GOOD AT PUBLIC SPEAKING. He was an actor, so DUH. How did we go from that....to this?

There's that ridiculouos idea that people want a president to be on 'their level'. Honestly? I want my president to know MORE than me, especially about running the country and diplomacy. And public speaking? damn useful in diplomacy.

I don't understand it, I hate it. I hate how the only thing about him that seems appealing is,a s Jamie put it, that primal side of you that likes everything to be even and the same- not wanting things to be different. And in BEING different, that can never appeal to me.

Something in me CRINGES when I think back to high school and the 2000 election when I was all 'YAY BUSH!' and such. I postitively CRINGE. Admitting that is almost embarassing.

I need out of Georgia.