TheLastManInAmerica

Imagine this: it just so happens that the Super Bowl is being played in a city where one of the conference champs resides. Late in the fourth quarter, as the home town team is being slaughtered, the faithful begin cheering for the opposition. Or, remember Rocky IV, when, towards the end of the fight, inspired by his unwavering spirit, the Russian crowd begins openly chanting for the Italian Stallion over Ivan Drago? Such is the case for John McCain in the closing days of the election.

Now I’ve said how much I hate the polls but this one is intriguing. They are now showing the race in Arizona, the Republican nominee’s home state, is narrowing. A recent CNN/Time/Opinion Research poll shows McCain with a 53-46% lead of Barack Obama. But some surveys suggest the race is even closer.

Lending some validity to these polls is the Republican’s recent efforts in the state. Earlier this week, the McCain camp and the RNC paind for negative robo-calls, warning voters of the dangers that could come with an Obama presidency. “If Democrats win full control of the government,” the calls said, “they will give civil rights to terrorists and talk unconditionally to dictators and state sponsors of terror. Barack Obama and Democratic allies lack the experience to lead America.”

How demoralizing! You wouldn’t even think of your home state being in danger but it seems that Schwartz’s Law is in full effect for John McCain. In case you don’t know what that is, Murphy’s Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will; Scwartz’s Law states that Murphy was an optimist.  

Will CNN shut the fuck off? I’m so sick of hearing about how the presidential race is narrowing when, in truth, McCain has gained one percentage point. Such stories are then followed by how a state that hasn’t voted Democratic in forty years is now leaning Obama, as well as half of the remaining toss-up states out there.

Unless there is some concrete evidence on how the election is shaping up, I don’t want to hear it. When you start getting returns from early voting and absentee ballots then let that reflect where your numbers are coming from. Polls are completely unreliable and only serve to fuel hype. One station can say their new polls show Obama with a 12-point lead while another station says their “Poll-of Polls” has as a 7-point lead. They are merely tools of conjecture and should have no place in the NEWS.

Based on recent trends, I can deduce that I will probably take a shit around 6 A.M and another around 2 P.M but depending on what I ate recently, things could change dramatically. But until I take that shit, I will never know. So please CNN, let America move its bowels before you wipe our ass. 

In her nightly commentary on CNN, Campbell Brown stated that Senator Barack Obama has broken his promise. The promise she’s referring to is one he made in November of last year when he pledged to accept public financing and work with the Republican nominee to ensure they both work within those limits.

However, when it became apparent that he could raise more money on his own than he could get with public financing, Obama did what most politicians do: he went back on his word.

Since the start of his campaign, he has raised over $600 mil. That is no small fortune, folks! But of course Obama has a great excuse or two. He claims that the system is broken and that Republican’s know how to use the system to their own advantage. That and he needs the financing to repel all those negative Swift Boat-style attack ads. However, the Washington Post reported recently that, with the bad economy, the 527s don’t have the cash to join in on the fun.

So what can we make of Senator (er, President) Obama going back on his word like this? Obama supporter, and former Nebraska senator, Bob Kerrey wrote in the New york Post, “A hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue - who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. And that, it seems to me, is what we’re doing now.”

Harsh words, especially from a supporter, but nevertheless, they are true. He pledged to do things a certain way, to run his campaign on public financing and work with his opponent. He didn’t have to, but that’s what he said he would do. Then he pulls some bullshit excuse out of his ass?! Yes he’s a hypocrite! And if his broken promise isn’t enough convincing for you, take this into account: he’s a fucking politician! No better, no worse, but Barack Obama is just another politician.  

She’s being called a diva by some in her own campaign. They say she is unmanagable aand only takes her own advice. She goes off her talking points to discuss stories about her in the news. Is this bitch crazy? Or is she just preparing to make her own run at the presidency?

She is the only thing the GOP ticket has going for it. Even though some in her own party, and any free-thinking person in the world, questioned her nomination for vice president, she’s the one drawing crowds at rallies; McCain has to hold in-door rallies to make them look bigger but Sarah Palin holds mass assemblies that resemble rock concerts, or Nuremburg.

Greg Mueller, former aide in the campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes says she’s “absolutely earned a right to run in 2012.” Really? How? By botching every interview she’s done? By winking into the camera during her debate and spouting down-home colloquialisms? Is that how you earn the right to run for president? Damn! And I thought it had to do with talking candidly about foreign  policy and the economy. Well, shucky dang-darn, I guess I might start preparing my own run!

If Palin gets the chance to shatter the glass ceiling that Hillary put “18 million cracks” in, is there anyway we can really take the Republican party serious ever again? I’m not saying it’s bad to nominate a woman for president, but this woman? Whether or not she’s the rock star the GOP has been looking for, she’s hardly qualified to run a McDonalds. Yeah, she excites the base but has that been enough to get them over the hump this election? She’s turned off Independents and conserative Democrats alike and the only demographic she can hope to grab is extreme right-wingers like Evangelical Christians. Maybe they can get David Duke to be her running mate…

Damn, son! John McCain must be feeling a little bit like James “Buster” Douglas right now.  Futures traders and sports books are banking heavily on a win for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Ladbrokes, a massive online sports book based in the United Kingdom, have the odds of an Obama victory at 1-10 while John McCain’s hopes of winning are set at 11-2. Ouch!

Now these aren’t quite as  insurmountable odds as Douglas vs. Tyson but it is pretty staggering. However, one thing that always remains constant is the chance of an upset, for, as we know, bettors are not always right. In the New Hampshire primary Obama himself was a 1-33 shot to win before he lost to Hillary Clinton. James Douglas was a 42-1 underdog before he scored one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of boxing, knocking Mike Tyson out cold to capture the heavyweight title in 1990. Will something similar happen next week? Will the diminutive underdog manage to upset his formidable opponent? Will David take Goiath down? Probably not.  

Seahawks 34, 49ers 13

Number two. It’s a great description of how the Seattle Seahawks have been playing this year. But alas! I am not here to discuss the excremental way that Seattle has carried themselves through the first seven weeks. No, number two this time is in reference to their second win of the year.

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck missed his third straight week with a bad back and following two poor performances by backups Charlie Frye and Seneca Wallace, one might think the team was in for another anemic outing from the offense.  But Wallace had himself one of the best games of his career. He went 15 for 25 (60%) for 222 yards (14.8 per) and two touchdowns. Fullback Leonard Weaver was on the receiving end of both touchdown passes, for 43 and 62 yards respectively. The fourth-year man finished with four receptions for 116 yards (27.7 per)

The defense, while allowing a lot of yards, was able to shake up the 49ers offense and cause their quarterbacks to make mistakes. J.T. O’Sullivan, who was benched towards the end of the first half threw one interception that was returned by Safety Josh Wilson 75 yards for a score and had two fumbles, losing one.  The only touchdown Seattle allowed came in the fourth quarter when QB Shaun Hill connected with WR Jason Hill on a 2 yard pitch and catch.

Seahawks (2-5-0) 49ers (2-6-0) 

Don’t count all your eggs before they’ve hatched. The McCain camp and the Republican party sure aren’t. At this point, just over one week before Election Day, many of them are already conceding defeat, pointing the finger and wondering what went wrong?

McCain’s strategists in recent days have already started to make excuses for why they lost; complaining in recent interviews about Barack Obama’s unfair media coverage and big financial advantage. 

It is believed this is only a little taste of what is going on behind the scenes.It is also said the GOP is setting up a circular firing squad to figure out who is to to blame for the coming defeat. Top Republican officials are distressed over the lack of co-ordination between the McCain camp and the Republican National Committee. “There is no communication,” said one top Republican, “it drives you crazy.” 

Some top aides to McCain have already begun sending out résumés. “It’s not an extraordinarily happy place to be right now,” said one aide, “I’m not gonna lie. It’s unfortunate.”

$150,000 could buy you a lot of advertising. $150,000 could pay for a lot of help to get the message out. But, as any teenage girl or hollywood diva would, the Republican national Committee decided that money would be best spent on clothes for VP nominee Sarah Palin.

If you were a supporter of the Republican party, or, more importantly, a contributor, is this how you’d want them spending the money? One donor gives an emphatic NO! The donor said, ”As a Republican Eagle and a maxed-out contributor, I’d like my money back - he can stil have my vote.”

But he shouldn’t be angry because once the election is over Governor Palin plans to dedicate the clothes to charity. So the contributor can be happy in knowing that even though the candidate he broke the bank for lost, even though the money he donated was used to by a new wardrobe for a hockey mom instead of on campaigning in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Virgina, despite all this, St. Jude’s might get a few hundred dollars. Hell, maybe even a thousand!

Wow! I wish my mom held an executive office, then I’d be able to fly all over the country on YOUR dime! As it is, my mother is a secretary at Boeing and I’m still waiting on that Disneyland trip she promised me and my brothers 17 years ago. However, Bristol, Willow and Piper Palin are lucky enough to have their mother pull money out of a state budget so they can accompany mommy dearest wherever she may go.

As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin charged the state over $20,000 for her children to travel with her, including to events where they weren’t invited. And when Alaska reporters asked for the records? Well, the governor ordered the already filed expense reports be amended to account for her daughters tagging along, adding the phrases “First Family attending” or “First Family invited.”

Some of the organizers of events where Palin brought her children say they were surprised when her children showed up uninvited or said they agreed to a request from the governor to allow the children to attend. Such is the case in October 2007 when Alaska’s taxpayers shelled out nearly $1,400 on plane tickets for Palin and daughter Bristol to attend a women’s leadership conference in New York. The state was also charged over $700 a night for the two to stay 4 nights in the Essex House hotel; the event organizer said Palin asked if her daughter could attend.  

Tuesday, October 21st. We are just 2 weeks away from Election Day here in the United States of America; 2 weeks before we exercise our volition and discharge our suffrage on who we believe can run our beloved country.

I’ve been told again and again you must come down on one side or the other, you’re either going to choose Barack Obama or John McCain because they’re the only ones who stand a chance. But in truth they don’t want you to vote for one side or the other, they want you to vote for THEIR candidate. I have witnessed the polarization; living in über-liberal Seattle, I hear the people here look down upon Middle-Americans with such derision for not seeing things the way they do. But I know some who view those same liberals as nothing more than faggot-loving socialists who they ridicule for not having the same “moral values.”

Well, I’m proud to say I have no part in the partisan mind-set so prevalent in our country; I hate all parties equally. I received my ballot in the mail yesterday and did not vote along party lines. I voted for liberals and conservatives and independents (oh my!). Why? Because, like Barack Obama, I believe in spreading the wealth; in this case the wealth is my disdain for politicians