Sweet Apathy | Lets Go Girl

May 12, 2008 by Kingston

Oh Apathy—you are looking so sweet .

It seems the Libertarian Party may choose to go mainstream --- flush principle down the crapper, and nominate one of the biggest douche bags on the D List Politco circuit--committed racist, homophobe and public boob licker Bob Barr—which means I burn my LP card.

And John McCain—sorry old pasty face. You are truly a hero and a decent guy, but the tag McBush is not really inappropriate, except, if the past is any indication, the maverick stew will be spiced with a few harebrained (most likely unconstitutional) liberal-lite tid bits.

If only I could join the in-crowd and just be an Obamite. All the cool kids are doing it. Red-State-Blue State, Black-White, Rich-Poor,Conservative-Liberal,Male-Female, Queer-Breeder----none of it matters anymore—its a transcendent moment and a new age in America—skeptics like me are just old cranky bats, soon to be left in the dust heap of history by the Age of Obama.

I sure hope I am not becoming one of those people who gets a kick out of stepping on other people's dreams. But to me, Barack Obama just seems an ordinary liberal, albeit refreshingly intelligent, successfully dished up to a competence-hungry nation by the leftist royalty of Chicago, where the weather is always fine since Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn reign supreme.

However, I am not sure anyone really cares about the thoughts of Obama—the adoration of the adorable, but vacuous headed, Amber Lee Ettinger , is really not atypical. The dude is the thinking person's Dubya—he's just one heck of a good guy.

I ask my friends why they like Barack—and there is a gleam of orgasm in their eye. I get it-- we all know that mixed race people are by far the hottest. At least , unlike the last two general elections, the personal attraction is not accompanied by rebel yells, jubilant demonstrations of our second amendment rights and numerous toasts of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Of course, I have to admit the inner Trailer Park Tramp in me likes all that stuff— but we should have leaned by now that the best-guy(gal)- to-pal-around-with is not a good way to pick the Leader of the Free World. Besides, with politicians, it's always a falsie, which our personality-obsessed culture is all too eager to swallow.

Sonny turned out to be a preppie drug store cowboy in the worst way, and an actor that makes John Wayne look good.

And Hillary—she is not going to lose the nomination as a result of sexism, but those who deny the sexism and say:" its not all women, just THAT WOMAN"—just don't get it. As I discussed a while back, the sexism she endured was glaringly apparent to almost all women.

Even though I don't like Hillary Clinton as a person, or her politics, I admire the fight she put up against insidious misogyny. And because she kept fighting against the sexism, her gender is NOT the reason she is going to be denied the nomination. For that she is hero to me, and to a whole lot of women.

It's just like Obama is a hero to almost all blacks, regardless of whether they are Democrats, Republicans, libertarians or apathetic (yes, just like lesbians--- African-Americans are far from being some homogeneous group that necessarily supports all aspects of the “black agenda” and can be perpetually taken for granted by the Democratic Party).

I know most of my lesbian pals are disappointed. But even in the recent Rambo-chick days, before the campaign steamed full speed ahead into the state of denial, I still could not picture Hill comfortably outfitted in a rainbow chocker, bullet proof corset and pleated khaki shorts.

However, the whole Clinton thing is now sadder and more disturbing than the Lewinsky humiliation.

Maybe if the pant suit doll had smartened up and strategically kicked Bill in the nuts, I could choke back some Hillary Honey tears. There was certainly ample reason to finally put an end to the dysfunction . The final straw should have been the pathetic bombastic attempt, as an offensive ward captain, to make up for a lifetime addiction to chubby interns and horesy faced hussies.

Those two have successfully surpassed the TomKats as the creepiest couple on the planet.