Category: "Politics"
How the Other Side Lives: Flicks from A Meager McCain Rally
Tags: Election, John McCain, Obama, Republican
This morning I happened upon an ardent assemblage of McCain supporters just outside my workplace. The fifty or supporters barked various disturbing chants in between speeches made by Bible-quoting, Cowboy-boot sporting party spokespeople that made me wish for the selective reinstatement of poll taxes. Not that they ever went entirely away, Republicans continue to disproportionately challenge votes by people of color and the poor. But dirty tricks aside, our change is gonna come. It will not be stolen. I have not knocked on wood and make no plans to do so. I am not superstitious. I am a woman of sense and, in this respect, confidence. If you believe it, and be it, so shall it be done and a great mass of folks have put in serious work to get Barack Obama into the Oval Office. So check out my Flickr slide show below and imagine the long faces these earnest but misguided McCain supporters will be wearing come Tuesday.
More of the Same: The Grand Dissapointment of Obama's Acceptance Speech
Brooks & Dunn's "Only In America" cleaned up for Barack Obama Democractic Party nomination acceptance speech last night, an intriguing choice given the Hawaiian-born candidate's reliance on Stevie Wonder's soulful stylings throughout the campaign. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" was his kicker. As the Boston Globe reported in January, Obama's playlist was exclusively R&B and pop so this decision to go Nashville at that unprecedented moment in history that so many of us witnessed last night was strange. I'll go a step further and call it calculating. It's an obvious overture towards "middle America," which is just code for regular white people, working and lower middle class whites, in particular.
