HELLO!
Thank you for all of the traffic, Master Althouse. If you want people to separate you from your more famous mother, perhaps your post shouldn't have started off with a riff on how Kerry lost her in 2004.
Your assertion that I am "mad" at you is hilarious. You inadvertently proved my point for me--you think everything is about you! Sadly, it is not about you. My disgust with your "emo kid cries about not being pandered to" series of three self-indulgent blog posts has nothing to do with you, per se. I'm sure you're a fine young fellow with no self-awareness or consideration of other human beings. Rather, it's just disgust at you wanking off in public. Nothing more.
Oh, and in case you haven't figured it out, no one seriously thought you and your idiot mother were ever going to vote for Obama anyway...
The son of Ann Althouse trembles with his realization of great importance--Obama has lost him! Never mind that this is exactly what his idiot mother said in 2004. Never mind that Obama hasn't "lost" anyone and that the self-centered, narcissistic voter is one that will be gained and lost only if the candidate somehow can connect to their little world and pander to them. Which isn't going to happen. Hence, we have thumb-sucking and navel gazing such as this:
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So in what sense did he "lose me"? As with my mom's "How Kerry lost me," I haven't gone from supporter to non-supporter. What I mean is that I used to hold these beliefs:
I thought he was clearly, dramatically preferably to Hillary Clinton.
I thought he was virtually the dream candidate for 2008, with the obvious but overlookable exception of his thin resume.
I now believe that I was wrong. Specifically:
He's probably better than Hillary would have been, but it's at least really close, and I'm even open to the idea that she would have been better.
I still support Obama, but not particularly more strongly than I'd be supporting any other mainstream Democratic candidate who was the nominee.
He's just not a good enough candidate. Democrats are entitled to feel very disappointed about this.
It's taken me a long time to get to this point because there's no single issue or moment that decisively turned me off from him.
Rather, it's a long list of things that add up to the "He's not good enough" conclusion...
It goes on and on like that. Note that there is not one single policy position mentioned--just "answers" to hypotheticals that don't specify much. Like FISA, Health Care, Social Security, Iraq, Foreign Policy, etc. Guess what? If you disagree with Obama on policy, you don't have to vote for him! You can vote for the other guy! But if you sit there and bitch and moan about how he just "isn't good enough," then that's on you.
What this is about is nothing more than self-centered, me-first, half-assed, infantile analysis. You've got to really hate your fellow Americans to not even consider what it might mean to them if Obama or McCain wins. Millions of Americans will be affected either way, good or bad. But Althouse sits on his hands and shrieks like a neglected teenager who is used to having every aspect of the world revolve around him. He moans. Pander only to me! Love only me! Don't do anything that would cause me the slightest upset!
What a whining, pathetic man child. Guess what? The phrase "it's not about you," is one you need to hear, early and often. If you can't get behind a candidate, and grow the fuck up and realize that the imperfections of the person you support are more a reflection on YOUR OWN inability to grow up and live in a world of compromises, then don't bother participating. Shut the fuck up and don't vote. Or--light bulb going off over the head of a mealy-mouthed sad sack--support the other guy! You're allowed to do that--it's a democracy! But if you can't handle that, blame your mother! Don't get involved. Shut yourself away and write endless blog posts about how the world won't do what you want it to do. Then, blame your mother! Because that's probably the only avenue left to you because you can't function in the real world. Besides, she'll just blame Bill Clinton for how you were raised. Ann Althouse wouldn't know personal responsibility if it bit her on the ass.
You see, the junior Senator from Illinois is running for President of the United States of America. He's not going to stop and kiss the ass of Ann Althouse's son. I realize that is a shock to your over-privileged, love the hell out of me, and make me the center of the universe kind of thinking. Because the son of Ann Althouse doesn't mean jack fucking shit in the equation of getting elected President.
Glad I could be here to explain that. |
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