I’ve been in the States since Friday morning. Within two hours of leaving the airport, I was at the Georgia voters’ registration office. Yeah, I voted. I thought that I could let apathy be the rule for this year’s election. But everytime I think I’ll sit out, I find myself back at the ballot. I guess all those civic classes from grade school are still a part of me.
This following entry is not to criticize those who are sitting out this election for various reasons–especially those based on Islamic jurisprudence. Some do not believe it’s halal or even moral to participate in this election. I’m sure many of us are agonizing over it. We don’t want to elect a tyrant yet we don’t want to sit back and watch our country fall apart. And while voting is certainly not the only way to practice civic responsibility, it is one of the easiest.
I’m not expecting miracles from Obama if he wins. I know there’s only so much he can do. And it will take more than four years to clean up this mess. But…
Sweet holy crap, McCain and Palin have gone too friggin’ far!
While I think it’s wonderful that so many people of different backgrounds have rallied behind a Black candidate, it’s still obvious that for many people race still matters.
How can we take seriously a VP candidate who changes colleges six times within six years? Obama is a Harvard grad who graduated first of his class. Yet his contender graduated fifth to last of his class at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Yep, he was #894 of 899! This is further proof that as a candidate of color, you have to be better than best and smarter than the smartest–even if your challengers have all the intellectual capacity of a brick!
We have two people, vying to lead the so-called friggin’ free world, who are affliated with such groups as the Alaskan Independance Party. This is a group that wants Alaska to be its own independent nation and doesn’t have any warm, fuzzy feelings about the United States.
I’m glad I won’t be here watching this insanity unfold because and I feel like I could get an ulcer. That’s why I’m up at 4:30 am writing this entry. It’s just so unbelievable (yet, maybe it isn’t all that unbelievable) that it has come to this. An over-achieving Harvard grad against an under-achieving, cantakerious, sickly old man and a former beauty queen with dreams of Armaggeddon.
And I haven’t even talked about Palin’s psycho minister who make Reverands Parsley and Hagee look like lambs. Check out Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Tariq’s blog.
Bin Laden is somewhere laughing his drawz off!
Now since the Republican party likes to shout about morality all the time, I think it’s time to take the gloves off. Because everytime they start talking about morality and family values, one of them gets caught in a bathroom trying to hook up with gay prostitutes. We all know that Sarah Palin has a daughter who had a child out of wedlock. We know that both Mc Cain and Palin were unfaithful to their spouses.
Do you think Obama would be given a pass if it was discovered that he cheated on Michelle? Do you think if he graduated fifth to LAST that they wouldn’t point that out every single second?!?!!
We have a financial crisis that’s so bad that people are finding murder and suicide as viable solutions. How desperate do you have to be that you would rather kill yourself and your whole family than face another day? A woman, who is 90 year old, shot herself before she was evicted from her home. Rep. Dennis Kucinich pleaded her case and now Fannie Mae has forgiven her (ain’t that a joke) and she doesn’t have to pay back her home loan. So I guess you have to kill yourself (or others) in order to manage this economic crisis. Meanwhile, executives from AIG celebrated the recent bailout by chilling out at a California spa.
Check this out…
AIG documents obtained by Waxman’s investigators show the company paid more than $440,000 for the retreat, including nearly $200,000 for rooms, $150,000 for meals and $23,000 in spa charges.
But do McCain and Palin talk about this? Naaaah. They focus on Ayers, the “domestic terrorist” and 60’s radical who currently teaches at the University of Illnois in Chicago. I guess they couldn’t get the Muslim terrorist thing to stick (though I know they are still trying!) so they had to pull out this one. Though I can’t fault Obama for not knowing about this. After all, the dude was 8 years old when Ayers did his radical activities. Note to the wise: a lot of those 60s radicals are now teaching in American universities or serving as politicians and lawyers. :::wink, wink:::
And to show you what kind of man McCain is, he’ll attack Obama everywhere on the campaign trail and accuse him of all kinds of evil. But he won’t do it to his face–this POW won’t do it to his face!
Something has to give. Obama is leading in the polls. But I don’t like to assume anything because Gore and Kerry were the expected winners of 2000 and 2004 respectively.
Something has to give. Something has to change.
Too many of my friends are talking about joining me in Dubai.
But this mud-slinging, politics of distraction has got to stop.
Cut the crap and focus on the issues, pleeeeeez!
Farzana said,
October 8, 2008 at 10:53 am
Well said, well said!!! I can’t believe how the American elections have become some kind of ‘Celebrity X Factor’ contest more than a political election, where even the dumbest people are passed off as intelligent and capable of running the country. And people can’t seem to see through the hype – that says more for the American public than it does for those that want to run them. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry?
iMuslim said,
October 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm
All respect to the my American brethren, but can your news stop being our news? PLEASE!
Seriously, the only two issues BBC News talks about these days are: the US elections, and now the US economic crisis.
Of course both have global implications, but… what’s happening in the UK?!
Btw, I know it’s not your fault, Izzy… but one of you guys please fix it so that in four years time, you are able to choose the next leader within the span of two months, MAX. This is getting boring, childish… and indeed, extremely “Celebrity X Factor”, to quote Farzana.
We all know the promises will be broken within five minutes of getting the keys to the White House, so why all the fuss? Lie, bribe, blag, get voted in, rip the country off whilst smiling at the cameras, leave, bring in the next guy and repeat the cycle.
Sigh… Politics!
Fatemeh said,
October 9, 2008 at 12:12 am
Salam and great post!! Barikallah for voting!!!
Enshallah November 5 won’t be a(nother) dark day!
Safia said,
October 9, 2008 at 1:20 am
Salaam,
“you have to be better than best and smarter than the smartest–even if you’re challengers have all the intellectual capacity of a brick!”
Oh but don’t you know? Being smart and actually being qualified for the position…that’s elitist!! The less smart you are, the less experience you have, that means you’re just like most Americans! Who cares if your qualifications are shoddy for president? That’s a good thing! I want the least experienced person as leader of the United States. Having gone to a good school, working hard and graduating in the top of your class…no good! That’s just something to be ashamed of, because that means you’re not like all of us regular folk. (*snort*)
Thank God, thank God, thank the good God, that it looks like McCain/Palin will lose (according to the polls right now). It’s the lone bright spot in all the news of the economy going down the tubes. Because without this economic crisis, I really believe McCain would have won.
I have lost a lot of respect for McCain. I never would have voted for him, but I started out believing at least he was a man of integrity, and it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if he were elected. But my view has changed.
livinglifeandlovinit said,
October 9, 2008 at 2:25 am
ASA,Gurl,
I feel you on this post. I have all that stuff on my blog. I am a sarah Palin hatin fool these days. She is just so easy to pick on with all her crap. I really hope poeple get out and make the right choice. What we do today will affect what happens to us tomorrow.
Victoria’s Corner » Blog Roundup said,
October 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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izzymo said,
October 10, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Oh, I’m already sick of this. SICK!
And iMuslim, I’m so sorry they are doing this to you in the UK!
Let’s pray, God save America from itself!
rissa said,
October 19, 2008 at 10:44 am
Ameen. Right on sister!