sight isn’t always necessary

I talked with dad today briefly, and I don’t know how we got on it, but we started arguing about me voting for Barack Obama.  And I DID vote for Obama – I refuse to be someone like mom that will vote for someone but not publicly announce it, as if afraid of making the wrong choice and being blamed for more problems.  I mean, everyone that voted for Bush for the past 2 elections doesn’t admit that they had something to do with all of the problems we’re messed up with now, so… why will I have to take any blame if all of my dad’s crazy warnings come true?

And they are crazy, by the way.  Not only crazy, but I really couldn’t make sense of why he said McCain was a better candidate – just like on Fox News, he came up with a lot of jibberish but REAL SUBSTANCE was definitely lacking.  He even rambled a little about being stuck in a forest, and running through and running into trees or something…

He did say a few things that really pissed me off though.  For one, he said (and I don’t know about these “figures”, but that isn’t really relevant anyway) that 90% of blacks in America are voting for Obama just because he’s black, and they would vote for him even if he was threatening to sell all of their babies.  What the hell does that mean?  And right after dad said that, he claimed over and over that he wasn’t racist.

If Hillary were in the election, would dad claim that all women voting for her were simply voting for her because she has a vagina?

Ok, the other thing he said was that he has so much experience because he’s been here for sixty years, and I obviously couldn’t have any original thoughts of my own (not his words, exactly), but I’m just “buying into the party line” of Barack Obama.  I don’t quite know how those two things correlate, but I do know this: Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading the Montgomery bus boycott when he was only 26 years old.  Thomas Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of Independence when he was only 33 years old.  Isn’t it believed that even Jesus Christ (a human!) was only about 30 years old when was crucified, and for years prior to that, he had preached peace, love, and understanding across the areas he travelled?

So why on earth does age automatically qualify my dad to know more than me about why John McCain is supposedly a better candidate than Barack Obama?  Why on earth wouldn’t my dad let me finish any of my sentences?

I’m tired, and rambling, and whatever.  Going to sleep before I find out who won.