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Sep. 6th, 2008 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytToday was the first practice session of the semester for the Michigan Kendo Club - and my first since April. For all that I think it went rather well. I got my zekken (and I will have my bogu in a couple of weeks!), I showed off the awesome shinai sleeve back Marjorie made me, and was generally a happy kendo-ka.
(If you didn't recognize all of those words, go look 'em up!)
In less happy news...well, I don't usually talk about politics, because in my experience it generally leads to arguments and frustration. But I'm worried about this whole Sarah Palin business. Not the business with her daughter getting pregnant - the fact that McCain probably picked her to draw in disgruntled former Hillary supporters. No, I'm not kidding. My mother was a fan of Hillary Clinton, although I wasn't. Fortunately she's sensible enough that she'll vote for Obama on election day, but I know a lot of people aren't. She told me that a lot of blue-collar women who liked Hillary are now planning to vote for McCain because he chose a woman as his running mate.
I understand the urge to get a woman in high public office, but seriously, Palin is the wrong woman. She's practically Hillary Clinton's polar opposite, while Obama's positions on many issues are similar to, if not the same as, those that Clinton espoused. Palin is aggressively pro-life, ran as a fiscal conservative and then turned around and increased spending and taxes in her home state, and is, from what I have heard, is even less keen on listening to the views and advice of others than our current President...unless, of course, the people giving the advice are her flunkies. The whole business makes me sick.
By the way, yes, I am registered to vote in Michigan, a swing state that is projected to go Republican this year. You've probably already guessed who I'm voting for. May the best man win.
(If you didn't recognize all of those words, go look 'em up!)
In less happy news...well, I don't usually talk about politics, because in my experience it generally leads to arguments and frustration. But I'm worried about this whole Sarah Palin business. Not the business with her daughter getting pregnant - the fact that McCain probably picked her to draw in disgruntled former Hillary supporters. No, I'm not kidding. My mother was a fan of Hillary Clinton, although I wasn't. Fortunately she's sensible enough that she'll vote for Obama on election day, but I know a lot of people aren't. She told me that a lot of blue-collar women who liked Hillary are now planning to vote for McCain because he chose a woman as his running mate.
I understand the urge to get a woman in high public office, but seriously, Palin is the wrong woman. She's practically Hillary Clinton's polar opposite, while Obama's positions on many issues are similar to, if not the same as, those that Clinton espoused. Palin is aggressively pro-life, ran as a fiscal conservative and then turned around and increased spending and taxes in her home state, and is, from what I have heard, is even less keen on listening to the views and advice of others than our current President...unless, of course, the people giving the advice are her flunkies. The whole business makes me sick.
By the way, yes, I am registered to vote in Michigan, a swing state that is projected to go Republican this year. You've probably already guessed who I'm voting for. May the best man win.
