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Good evening again, everyone, and welcome back. I'm sure you've been avidly awaiting my next journal entry, and here it is!

As you can clearly see by the title, this is about politics. And if you know me, or just have a good idea of dates and such, you'd know that I'm American and the main political topic I'd be discussing would be the Presidential election that just came to a close.

It's been a huge relief for me on many fronts that the election is over. For one, I am an Obama supporter (NOT a Democrat. I'm actually Independent). But that's not really what I'm relieved about.

Here comes a retrospective rant on what is finally done wearing my nerves away like a dog incessantly humping the coffee table until it eventually falls over and kills the damn thing.

Slander, and the people who buy into it.

I don't see how thick one has to be to buy into half the s**t that they say in political advertisements. The worst I've probably heard is the whole 'Terrorist' arguement on Barack Obama, but I've heard equally damnable (and stupid) things about John McCain. But the slander on McCain, although wrong, isn't as fun to rant about, so I'm going to just leave it at this: Democrats DID slander McCain. I'm NOT denying it. I just CHOOSE not to go off on a tangent about it.

Anyway, back to the 'fun' side of slander, the superfluous. I'm just going to list a few of the most common bits of slander I've heard, and let you all see the trashy propaganda that the world offers you:

1. Probably my favorite, because there's no reason for it. I believe it was Sean Hannidy, or O'Reily, or some one else (I don't remember who said it, but it doesn't matter.) But for a while there, one of the pundits never just said Barack Obama. They insisted on including, and stressing even, his middle name.

HUSSEIN!!!!!

Like that. Except on tv. To the ENTIRE country. I mean, what does it matter that Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein? I mean, my uncles middle name was Charles, but that doesn't mean that he was planning to go Manson on the household. It's things like this that appear scientifically designed to chap my a**, much to the point of making it difficult to sit at the computer while I write my rants.

But bollocks to that! We're moving to the next stop on the Slander Train.

2. Barack Obama......is a MUSLIM!!!! OMG WTF OH NOES!!!!!!

Short response to this: Bull. s**t.

Long response: This is ignorance at its purest level. Our country was attacked by Muslim extremists. That's a big deal. But it's not like that just flipped a switch in every American-Muslim's mind that only had the settings 'OFF' and 'DEATH TO AMERICA'.. And if a religion suddenly turned everyone into homicidal maniacs (which, being the hell-heading atheist that I am, I actually uphold to some extent), then why aren't all the Catholics in the world locked up in Gitmo? I mean, has anyone ever HEARD of the Inquisition? I'll stop this part of the rant. I think I hear someone chanting and throwing gasoline onto the sides of my house.

There's a point where something gets ridiculous. I mean, if a terrorist organization attacks your country, then by all means, kick their a**. But once you start assuming that everyone of the same RACE as the people in the organization are somehow 'in on it', that's when it gets ridiculous.

I mean, I know for a fact that Obama isn't Muslim or a Terrorist, but I felt that I had to include that in this section since the accepted everyman of 'Real America' thinks that the two terms are synonomous.

2.5 He associates with known terrorist Bill Airs (that's spelled wrong, but I'm too lazy to find out the real spelling)

This should just cancel out the whole Muslim = Terrorist thing. I imagine that the people buying into this are those who subscribe to the school of 'When it's convenient' thinking, also known as Doublethink if you're feeling sassy. Basically, this means that they'll be perfectly fine thinking that all Muslims are terrorists one day, but as soon as they say that someone who ISN'T Muslim is a terrorist, they eat it up, ignoring the original racial profiling that came with the terrorist label just the day before.

I mean, once Ayers (I actually looked it up. But I will maintain part of my laziness by refusing to change it at the top of this section) started bombing public offices in the 60's, why didn't everyone decide that all white people were terrorists?

I'm getting dangerously close to the race card here, but I'm a betting man so I'll put it down and take a hit from the deck.

3. Obama Lacks Experience.

This one is founded in a very small amount of truth. Just enough for you to stand in while you're one the side of the road with a sign saying, 'I am an arrogant t**t' while people toss olive pits at you.

It's true Obama hasn't dealt with an executive office before. I can understand why people would be concerned with that. I can even see a small sliver of genuine sense in saying he has no foreign policy experience (although the only members of this plot of land would be the sign and the olive pit).

But here's the thing that's eating away at me like a whore with a bad overbite; Sarah Palin was the one that spoke most about him having no experience. How the ******** does that work? That's like me being a carpenter slapping a tailor across the face because he didn't fix my car right. If I'm going to complain about poor service on a job that isn't even the person's specialty, I should just build myself a house with no doors cause I'm not worthy to see the daylight anymore.

I'm starting to get tired of ranting about this for today. I might make a follow up at some point, but right now I'm going to go to the shooting range with my Sarah Palin doll.

Toodles!

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