AG is interesting in the same way fingernails on a blackboard is interesting.

But that's me.

The Underground Railroad

I think for a lot of us that are in the lower lower middle class (a/k/a "the working poor"), there is no consideration as to the candidates' secondary sex characteristics or skin color.  Maybe you haven't been paying attention since these issues of race and sex are so important, but here's a news flash: those of us on the lower rungs are not having an easy time of it.  We don't care about whether "sex trumps race."

We care about raising our families, being able to pay the bills, and being able to have some degree of success including retirement.

My friend J., a single mother of color (as if that should even fucking matter) says it best:

I think my political strategy has been who do I think has the best chance for beating the republican candidate...the answer has eluded me thus far.  I know that they can't please us all, but I think the have the obligation to look out for us...the WAY lower middle class.

You're right...We're too rich to be poor and too poor to really live the American dream, and somehow, we've slipped through the agendas and policy meetings and have been completely forgotten.  I feel for people who have less then I, and I support programs that help support them because I figure "there but for the grace of God go I..." but there is NO support for people in our economic bracket.  Rents are hovering around $1100.00, gas and home fuel prices are at unheard of prices, food prices are on the rise, where is the help for us??  I am not asking for a hand out, nor am I asking for the 600.00 dollars from the government!!

Do they really think that is going to improve my life substantially???? Then they are going to charge me tax on that next year when I file my income taxes so how much have they really done for me.  You know what??? Screw them.  Keep my money and do something that will benefit us all long term.   Don't try to make the Quick fix and say "we tried to help you?  What more do you want???"  Jackasses.  Sorry... I am just frustrated and I don't see how we are ever going to fix this mess that we have gotten in.

Brendan again: When times are better and I have a tenured position in some university, then maybe I'll have time to bandy about whether Obama's skin color and Clinton's vagina help or hurt them in the election.  Right now, I, and many others like me, just want some fucking relief.  I don't care who the policies come from: shit, if a dead cat named Lucky Pajamas was offering a package of tax breaks for the middle- and lower-middle class, the repeal of the bankruptcy bill, subsidies for day care, ending the war in Iraq, restoring our civil liberties, and universal health care, I'd be willing to vote for the deceased feline.  

It's not about race or sex: it's about being able to survive and make ends meet.  Boiling it down to "the black versus the bitch" is nothing more nor less than sophistry.  

Oh, and by the way? Your post was EXACTLY what mental midget Glen Beck was saying this election is about this morning on right-wing talk radio.  

Brendan Calling John Mccain

I do.

I am making no value judgements here.

Just observing.

So it goes.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

i have voted for niggers before

i neva voted for no cunt till today

felt good

felt real good

ps if edwards had sold out and taken corporate money he could still be in the race...and i wouldnt care where his contributions came from just like i dont care where hillary's or obama's come from....thats the game and until somebody changes the rules the guys who dont play the game will never get to the top.

its the golden rule

the guy with the gold rules

Edible panties taste like crap.