Not Your Average Jane

Ok so I have to talk about what we did yesterday in order to lead up to the story for this one....

So yesterday Mom, one of my sisters, and I went up to the Woodlands to go to the Tommy Bahama store and visit with an aunt. We all end up meeting at the bar at Tommy Bahama's cafe where we proceed to spend the entire afternoon visiting and catching up.

Toward the end of the afternoon, we start to talk about the Presidential election.
And I almost got an entire table full of women kicking my ass.... All because I called Obama the Anti Christ.... No one at the table really likes him but the fact I brought religion into in a very abstract way got their geese I guess.... So as I tried desperately to explain my reasoning my mother asks me, "Is it because he's black?"

If I hadn't have been sitting down I may have fallen down... You seriously have to ask me that question after almost 30 years of knowing me?!?!?!?

I've NEVER judged anyone on the basis of their skin color. EVER.

It was recockulous....

But we got into a very heated debate about who to vote for.

Obama has flipped and flopped on the issues and never come up with a concrete plan for anything he's talked about... Sure he's talked about change this or change that but never said how he plans to do that.... Ok so he's charistmatic... Ok so he's a good husband and father... But when you can't cop to your religion? That's just fishy... And I admit his name throws me for a loop too... Hussein. That brings to mind Saddam.... And those aren't happy thoughts.....

But I do like his VP choice Biden. He's a bit older, has had more political experience and has recovered from tragedy, which makes him likeable.

On the other hand theres McCain. He's been in the military and politics for a while but he's been sick.... Heart attacks and the like... And he was a POW so he's never been in the best of health (he needs shoulder surgery because of an injury he recieved while he was a POW) and he's an older man... Whose to say he'll LIVE through a term in office? And can he handle the stress of being president in such fragile health?

But I do like him better than Obama even though he's a Republican. Even though I'm a liberal and a Democrat....

However I DONT like his VP choice.... I did at first but as I've gotten to know where she stands on the issues I can only scratch my head and go huh? She's pro life (I'm pro choice), she doesn't believe in ANY sort of birth control (that's just retarded), and she doesn't have a lot of experience and NONE on the international level. And as much as I like that she's a woman and a mom... Can a woman with 4 kids, one of them with Downs Syndrome, handle being Vice President?

I don't know who I'm voting for still.... If the Prez is more of a figure head and the VP gets all the power, hands down its Obama. He can help restore the faith in America and Biden I think can handle the responsibities of VP well. But I wouldn't want Palin (McCain's choice of VP) to have that much power...

So I guess I'll just wait and see how I feel as time goes on.

posted by Ali @ 2:12 PM