Not What You Want To Think About, Either

Und Immer Noch Einmal:

Yes; I understand that we will have to vote for Obama, even if he isn't a particularly Progressive President and has caved to the Banksters and is doing squat to see that people who are unemployed (and the average length of time they have been is forty weeks) have jobs and, like so many Democrats in the Potomac Village have all the spine of the Great Hamster Of Alsace.

Obligatory Cute Small Animal Photo In Middle Of Blog Rant:
The Great Hamster Of Alsace (You Thought We Were Kidding)

Yes, I will walk into a voting booth in 2012 and mark my ballot for Mr. Obama, because, as always seems to be the case, it's that or face a wonderful life in the New Germany.

I do understand that even four years of someone like Sarah Palin or Grand TurtleBear Bachmann would outdo in ferocity and venom, in sheer Crazy, the nine years of Lil' Boots:

In a recent post about the Quitta from Wassila, Andrew Sullivan predicted how she would run against President Obama:

Pundits speak of her lack of professional organization. What they don’t speak of so often is her willingness to say and do things very few politicians will. She will play the race card powerfully, often and repeatedly. She will run a campaign against Obama as an un-American. She will run on hatred of elites, will turn every sad gaffe, lie or untruth into “truth”, she will deploy religious motifs more effectively than any Republican candidate in modern times. In the last campaign she accused Obama of being a friend of terrorists, and was prevented from using Jeremiah Wright in the last few weeks of the campaign. She will make the Willie Horton ad look like happytalk.

I think Sully is spot on with this observation when it comes to Palin, but the sad fact is that the same could be said about any of the Republican candidates climbing into the clown car. To “win” they will—each and everyone—say and do things that push them into moral twilight. Many have already taken the ferry across the Acheron and are working hard to secure real estate in one of the nine circles.

When the clown show is over and the [circus clown] car is emptied — one clown will be the Republican nominee and that clown will live down to Sully’s worst fears of a Palin campaign. Pushing white resentment and fear is the only path the GOP has to defeat President Obama and whichever clown emerges will embrace that Palin path. It will be ugly.

I think the best way to view the emerging 2012 Republican filed is to be amused and yet, terrified by the evolving spectacle. The very real possibility that any of these clown car occupants could actually win control of the White House in 2012 should frighten you enough to be ready to work like hell to defeat these fucksticks in 2012.

So: Vote Hopey-Changey, 2012. I don't have to like it, though. And there's always the chance that he'll be able to live up to the vision of a Progressive leader I hoped he would be. But, I'm only a Dog, and no one listens to me.

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