I'M BACK....

It's been two long years since last I blogged here, but only because I had a computer catastrophie and lost the password and log-on to all my blogs. Anyway, lo' and behold, I just found them all, and I'm back.

Well, here it is, a week and small change before the Presidential Election. It's been almost than two years in the making, and I've followed just about all of it on television. What the hell am I going to watch when it's over?

I'm thinking maybe there will be some changes happening that will warrant news reporting, because I'm thinking that - hopefully - Barack Obama will be our next President.

I can't believe (well, okay, so I can believe) that John McCain and Sarah Palin are such negative assholes, attacking nonstop and giving us virtually no details on just how they intend to fulfill those promises they're both making. It's disgusting.

There is too much smearing of Obama going on - TV and the Internet are responsible for broadcasting this bullshit and all that "Joe the Plumber" crap that McCain and Palin have latched onto (Joe the Plumber should charge them for the use of his name and image).

It brings to mind the Nixon Watergate scandal - which by the way, had "Plumbers" involved, too, as I recall. Another Dose of Republican Dirty Tricks. What's next, and Enemy List?

I voted early. North Carolina has had the early vote for awhile now, so this time I took advantage of the opportunity. I cast my vote firmly for Barack Obama.

Some History Here: In 1988 I worked as a volunteer for the Jesse Jackson in '88 Campaign. I also registered voters with Project Vote and made contact calls for the Rainbow Coalition. Thus, Barack is not the first black person this yankee redneck woman has voted for. However, Barack Obama is by far more electable than Jesse ever was, although without Jesse Jackson, this time may not have come as it did.

I think Barack and the country has television to thank for shows like "24" (which had a black man as president) and "The Unit" which features a black man as leader of a squad of black ops Marines. They paved the way for reality, as some movies and shows always do.

So hats off to the people responsible for those shows, because the reality today is that white people all over the country - even here in the south - aren't afraid to vote for a black man because they got used to the "novelty" of having a black man in charge because of those excellent TV shows.

We've come a hell of a long way in my lifetime.

In closing I have one burning question I'd like to address to George W. Bush: "Who are you gonna vote for? The back stabbing Republican or the Democratic candidate?"