Well, You're Angry Today

I know how you feel

If you watched last night's and tonight's installment of The Daily Show, you might have noticed something you don't see very often. Jon got angry. It's subtle, but towards the end of that bit, you could tell there was genuine anger beneath the humor. Even the guest, Bill Mahr, comes on with, "Well, you're angry today."

This evening, Jon showed the same subtle anger when he talked about the disingenuous of politics today; the same thing I was just ranting about in the last post. Seeing him angry about these things makes me all the more upset about it as well. The times must be dire if the usual go guy for laughs over the absurdities of politics is letting anger seep through his humor.

He cited 2 examples. The first was Palin's stance on abortion. She's a strict pro-life advocate who thinks abortion is illegal even in cases of rape and incest. When pressed by Couric on this question, she said she will "counsel" people to choose life as if the victim will have a choice when Palin wants to illegalize abortions. CAN YOU JUST SAY WHAT YOU F@*KING MEAN?

The second example referred to something McCain said during the republican convention, how he will pick judges that will be strict constitutionalists who will not legislate from the bench. The crowd cheered of course because they understand that to be code for: over turning Roe vs. Wade and banning gay marriages. SO THEN WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY WHAT YOU F@*KING MEAN?

I hate this disingenuous dance that politicians do with words to straddle definitions and escape accountability through technicalities. What happened to being motivated by selflessness and honor? What happened to just taking a stance, admitting when you are wrong and assuming responsibility for the consequences.? I criticize these people for being crazy but perhaps I am really the crazy one because I think things ought to be done differently. At what point does my idealism become naivety?

I'm sick of this election cycle. They really need to consider a law that limits people the time they are allowed to campaign for the presidency.