Political Humor

John McCain and Barack Obama roasted each other at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner tonight. Some of the best television I’ve watched all year.

McCain’s Roast

Obama’s Roast

**UPDATE** I think it’s hilarious that the clips I grabbed for McCain are from Fox News, and the clip for Obama is from MSNBC.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Humor, John McCain, Politics

Elections

I’ve jumped in feet first this year with the election. Last night I was recalling how the last few elections went down for me.

1992 – 17 years old and couldn’t vote, but Ross Perot was on the scene and Saturday Night Live was appointment television. I was happy to see Bill Clinton do well since I had previous ties to Arkansas.

1996 – In college and happy to vote in my first election, but I had no clue about anyone running, or any of the issues. I voted straight Republican because I knew that was what everyone I know always did. Bob Dole by default.

2000 – This is the first time I can remember getting pressure from friends and relatives to vote, and to vote Republican. I remember distinctly hearing often that “the possibility of Al Gore in the White House is terrifying.” They worked me up enough that I voted for George Bush. I tried my best to stay up and see who won on election night, but it turns out it was all for naught anyway. It wasn’t decided for weeks. Ironically I just received the documentary Recount in the mail. Looking forward to revisiting that period.

2004 – At this point I had been working for 3 years in an über hippy/liberal environment, and had become great friends with a very articulate and well educated new designer from New York. We would debate at length politics, policies and religion. I actually saw very valid points in a lot what they said, but I was currently a one issue voter and had no choice but to cast my vote for the pro-life candidate of George Bush. (I sure wish I would have watched the DNC that year, I missed a great speech!)

2008 – Another 4 years in this environment, plus the addition of a very diverse blogosphere, not to mention a complete paradigm shift in my spiritual awareness, has brought me to this point. I will be proudly voting for Barack Obama this November. My christianity and patriotism have both been called into question by many because of this decision, but I’ve never been more excited about making my choice for President of the United States.

It’s been sort of fun to sit back and watch all of the pundits, both on TV and in my life, pontificate about the options. Nobody really talks about the issues, it’s always personal attacks with no relevance, or false propaganda brought to you from double talkers (you owe it to yourself to watch this entire video). We should all just sit back, take a deep breath, and stop trying to pull down the opponents, and start speaking positives about why you like your guy/gal. Start actually listening to what the other people are saying without running them through the filter of whether they’re on your side or not. Then you might actually get something accomplished (and I might actually take you seriously). John McCain isn’t a horrible person and has a lot of great ideas, just like Barack Obama isn’t the “savior” and I disagree with a few of his positions. Face the facts people, the world isn’t going to hell in a hand-basket with either option.

I just happen to think Barack is what we need at this point.

For many reasons.

Did you know Jesus was a community organizer?

Just saying.

Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Religion

Smackdown Your Vote

Tonight is the night in Pennsylvania. And to add to the madness all three candidates will be appearing on WWE’s Monday Night RAW tonight.

I’ve never been more proud of our democratic process.

(ht: Razor Creative)

**UPDATE**
Here’s the real smackdown video!

(ht: John Dobbs)

Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics, WWE