OHIO

Ohio. Gotta win Ohio. Please, Lord, let Kerry win Ohio, in a convincing way. Errg. Can I start drinking now? It is after noon... I guess I'll be satisfied as long as we don't have to wait five weeks to know who the president is, and Bush doesn't have to make a recess appointment to replace Rehnquist with someone so the Supremes can decide the Ohio election cases. Errg. Ooog. I'm chewing my cuticles. I stopped chewing my cuticles when I was like 19. Ooog. I tried to explain the election to Zoë today, about how being the president was a very important job, etc. Her response "so, George Bush is too dumb to have all that wesponsibility?" Right, honey. That's it. She's like the anti-Gnat. In short: OOOOOG!!!

UPDATE: Fox has called Ohio for Bush. That's just Fox talking. Must breathe deeply.
SECOND UPDATE: Fuck no. Tell me this is not happening. I can't take four more years of this shit.
THIRD UPDATE: Fucking fuck me. Fuck. Me. Two thoughts: is now the time to start sewing maple leaves on all my clothes? Secondly, and more on the silver lining tip, I can hope that GWB has to clean up his own mess. Or, at minimum, be stuck with the consequences of his spectacularly bad decisions. The thought that a fiscally responsible Democratic administration would have to take the fall for the obviously inevitable tax hike was very distasteful, and I don't know whether anyone can fix the mess in Iraq now. Still, when your silver lining invoves a lot of people dying, it's not so silvery. More brass-like. Or maybe osmium-esque. Two words: no fucking way.

Comments

[nichole]

CNN just gave Kerry NH, but I'm with you, biting cuticles and praying for Ohio...

[anon]

Oh dark cruel nation. We've let the world down. I predict that death and destruction will be everywhere.
Sorry about that.

[Tom S.]

No offense Belle, but think of how those of us physically in the US feel?

You're the lucky one.

[William S]

I am in a Starbucks in Thailand and everyone who comes up the stairs is asking me how it's going - mostly Europeans and Brits. I am close to telling them to run for their lives to avoid being sucked into the deep by the pull of the sinking big ship. Fuck.

[Scott Lemieux]

My senitments exactly, except that I think even more obscenity would be justified. Motherfucker...

[eskie]

CNN hasn't called for ohio yet but it looks bad. Saw the interview with the ohio secretary of state and all that BS about 11 days to count the provisional votes.

this race is too close for comfort.

feels like screaming at all these dense people voting for GWB. apparently more women voted for kerry than men. says quite a bit.

[woof]

Too bad Kerry's brother isn't the Ohio governor. That would have solved the problem Florida-style.

[rocelyn]

Can't sleep...will have to wear black.
Feels a little bit like sept. 11.

[pfft.]

You Americans! I'm a big advocate of armed, violent revolution. This is probably why I very truly don't give a shit about who is the President of your empire. The less patrician of the two rich racists will probably win - so what? Kerry won't uninvade Iraq, he won't uninvade Afghanistan, and he wouldn't have solved any of the underlying problems of your country, i.e. it is a classist, racist, capitalist nation based on slavery and hatred. If you support Kerry, you support your empire. You support your violence. You support your hatred. Calmez-vous. To paraphrase Alexandre Kojeve: if Kerry won, no one would have died: nothing would have happened.

[pfft.]

In fact, the real story is how much Americans hate gays. God, you guys REALLY hate gays, don't you? I mean, I don't expect you to answer for the HUGE majority of those in the, what, ELEVEN states who said YES when asked whether they hated gays or not. I'm sure you, Belle, and you, John, and you, the Americans reading this, don't actually hate gays. But man, your country or society or polity or whatever you want to call it - as a whole, you guys just can't tolerate gays, can you? Luckily, a majority of Californians know a zygote when they see one, and don't mind mining its cells. What a weird, hate-filled-and-progressive country all at once.

[belle waring]

hey pfft: thanks for the love. But really, John was just saying to me, "can it be worth it to destroy the world just so gay people can't get married?" really, how can people care so much about gay marriage? does anyone doubt that in 30 years gay marriage will be a reality (besides people who think the Rapture will come before then?) In short, fuck fuck, fuck. and crap. and shit in the Sudan looks really bad. By my green candle! this suxxxx. my only consolation is that I have to get the map and protractor out to see how I could possibly move further away from the US. fuck. ME!!!.

[pfft]

John Kerry's bicycle cost $8000. It's a Serotta. It's a nice bike. It cost $8000. Can you believe that? $8000! You seriously think a person who rides an $8000 bicycle is going to be good at government? By contrast, the type of bicycle that Lance Armstrong won six consecutive Tours de France on costs a mere $5000. John Kerry paid $8000 for a bicycle that he couldn't ride through half a stage at the Tour de France. The finest bicyclist in the world makes do on a $5000 clunker.

The point is, the motherfucker's got his priorities out of wack. He has no idea - absolutely no idea - what life is. A person who rides an $8000 bicycle just to tool around on some paths (as opposed to competing on it at a world-class level) should not be allowed out of the insane asylum, let alone into government.

[Joe O]

Pfft.

It is worse than you think. Mere knowlege of companies that sell $8000 bikes means that your priorities are out of wack. Your name is now on the list.

[Tom S.]

pfft--

I have to ask: is the second 'f' silent?

--Tom

[dave heasman]

"John Kerry's bicycle cost $8000. It's a Serotta. It's a nice bike. It cost $8000. Can you believe that? $8000! You seriously think a person who rides an $8000 bicycle is going to be good at government? By contrast, the type of bicycle that Lance Armstrong won six consecutive Tours de France on costs a mere $5000"

John Kerry came 37th (out of thousands) in 6 1/2 hours in the Mass. cycle marathon this last year. He's 60. He bought his bike, and customised it, at retail price.
Lance Armstrong's bike didn't cost $5000. It cost more than that for maintenance just during the race. And he doesn't pay retail.