With about 2 days left until the election, there's a last minute push by both candidates to garner votes.
If you listen to a left wing this or a right wing that, you'd hear that their respective candidate is in the lead.
I am sure that I am not alone when I say that at this point, I have grown so weary of the campaign rhetoric, that I just want this election to be over already! Alas, the day grows near...
Maybe it's the current state of our country, or maybe I've just become more in tune with today's politics, or I am just plain going senile, but I can't ever remember myself getting so emotionally charged up as I have these last 2 elections. I often have to distance myself from it because I swear I feel my blood pressure rising.
Friends, co-workers, relatives, and every social media outlet imaginable are all continuously bombarding us with campaign "gossip" and rumors. Some based on facts, others not so much. You can't escape it.
The candidates, their stance on the issues and their promises have now advanced to the vomiting stage. Yes, you heard me, vomiting stage. I'm sick I tell you! Sick of it all!
If you are a Twitter follower, you know that "tweets" are small little blurbs of lies and facts, opinions, social and racial insults, comedy, even commercials. I never was a Twitter follower until this year when I started posting my blog entries. Reading tweets is often a chore trying to decipher today's sorry ass excuse for the English language. It often disgusts me and then....well, we know about the vomiting stage so I have to cut myself off. Often times, it's like a train wreck. You know it's coming and you should look away, but our twisted little sense of the macabre just has to see all the carnage. When I read some of these politically charged tweets, my blood boils and my head spins. There are just some people who shouldn't be allowed out by themselves let alone operate electronic devices that are supposed to convey intelligence. On the contrary, the amount of ignorance is just astounding.
The atmosphere in Twitter-land has become emotionally charged and it is rife with threats over the outcome of election 2012. Some are calling for rioting in the streets if Romney is the victor. Some paint Obama as the saint and if he loses, so too, do they lose all their "entitled" benefits. There's a good bit of narrow mindedness floating around in the land of Twitter and it's rather disturbing.
I hope they don't think that my vote will be swayed by threats of violence. That kind of throws the meaning of democracy right out the window. I do not like my current President and have made no bones about it.
I did not vote for him in 08 and did not threaten to run amok in the streets if he won. I also did not use social media sites to make death threats. By not backing Obama, some might call me a racist. Trust me when I tell you that that word has become the bane of anti Obama supporters everywhere. It's simply an excuse and is in no way true. In fact, if Herman Cain hadn't done himself in, I'd have probably been swayed to vote for him. But like many politicians and wealthy business owners, he turned out to be a bit of a whore monger and found himself disgraced so he did the only thing he could do - he threw in the towel.
I have already voted absentee. I do not want to be near any polling place on Tuesday. I will be working all day just so I will not sit in front of the television, mesmerized by the explanations and diagrams of blue and red, while newscasters drone on, explaining the differences of the popular vote versus the electoral college. The last election had me standing in line for over 2 hours to vote. My precinct evidently grew considerably between 04 and 08 as I had never seen such a turnout.
For those of you that are registered voters and haven't voted yet, please go vote. Don't be discouraged.
As I was composing this entry, my fellow blogger over at Charleston Thug Life was also apparently hovering through the Twitter world and had captured some interesting tweets. Go visit his blog and see what I'm referring to. Reading is believing.
http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-mouth-breathers-pontificating.html
If you listen to a left wing this or a right wing that, you'd hear that their respective candidate is in the lead.
I am sure that I am not alone when I say that at this point, I have grown so weary of the campaign rhetoric, that I just want this election to be over already! Alas, the day grows near...
Maybe it's the current state of our country, or maybe I've just become more in tune with today's politics, or I am just plain going senile, but I can't ever remember myself getting so emotionally charged up as I have these last 2 elections. I often have to distance myself from it because I swear I feel my blood pressure rising.
Friends, co-workers, relatives, and every social media outlet imaginable are all continuously bombarding us with campaign "gossip" and rumors. Some based on facts, others not so much. You can't escape it.
The candidates, their stance on the issues and their promises have now advanced to the vomiting stage. Yes, you heard me, vomiting stage. I'm sick I tell you! Sick of it all!
If you are a Twitter follower, you know that "tweets" are small little blurbs of lies and facts, opinions, social and racial insults, comedy, even commercials. I never was a Twitter follower until this year when I started posting my blog entries. Reading tweets is often a chore trying to decipher today's sorry ass excuse for the English language. It often disgusts me and then....well, we know about the vomiting stage so I have to cut myself off. Often times, it's like a train wreck. You know it's coming and you should look away, but our twisted little sense of the macabre just has to see all the carnage. When I read some of these politically charged tweets, my blood boils and my head spins. There are just some people who shouldn't be allowed out by themselves let alone operate electronic devices that are supposed to convey intelligence. On the contrary, the amount of ignorance is just astounding.
The atmosphere in Twitter-land has become emotionally charged and it is rife with threats over the outcome of election 2012. Some are calling for rioting in the streets if Romney is the victor. Some paint Obama as the saint and if he loses, so too, do they lose all their "entitled" benefits. There's a good bit of narrow mindedness floating around in the land of Twitter and it's rather disturbing.
I hope they don't think that my vote will be swayed by threats of violence. That kind of throws the meaning of democracy right out the window. I do not like my current President and have made no bones about it.
I did not vote for him in 08 and did not threaten to run amok in the streets if he won. I also did not use social media sites to make death threats. By not backing Obama, some might call me a racist. Trust me when I tell you that that word has become the bane of anti Obama supporters everywhere. It's simply an excuse and is in no way true. In fact, if Herman Cain hadn't done himself in, I'd have probably been swayed to vote for him. But like many politicians and wealthy business owners, he turned out to be a bit of a whore monger and found himself disgraced so he did the only thing he could do - he threw in the towel.
I have already voted absentee. I do not want to be near any polling place on Tuesday. I will be working all day just so I will not sit in front of the television, mesmerized by the explanations and diagrams of blue and red, while newscasters drone on, explaining the differences of the popular vote versus the electoral college. The last election had me standing in line for over 2 hours to vote. My precinct evidently grew considerably between 04 and 08 as I had never seen such a turnout.
For those of you that are registered voters and haven't voted yet, please go vote. Don't be discouraged.
As I was composing this entry, my fellow blogger over at Charleston Thug Life was also apparently hovering through the Twitter world and had captured some interesting tweets. Go visit his blog and see what I'm referring to. Reading is believing.
http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-mouth-breathers-pontificating.html
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