hopefully last night’s clinton speech, and tonight’s as well, will solidify their votes for obama/biden.

No way, no how, no McCain.

I loved the rant. It was timely and more important, right on.

I just got home from pootling around in my ‘92 Ford Explorer. She’s terminal and headed for the crusher on Monday. She’s a bit Manic Depressive.

On the one hand, she’s a beauty of an art car. I put endless hours into decorating her sides with tiles, glass beads, mirrors, monopoly houses and hotels, mini kewpie dolls and the like. On the other hand, she’s a complete mess as a functioning car. The blown head gasket makes her smoke like Puff The Magic Dragon, the alignment’s shot, one of the doors won’t open, while another has to be closed by lifting it up from the outside…..

But I also stuck a bunch of Obama stickers on her. Some one from the local Catholic Church was upset because I had a decorative rosary dangling from the rear view mirror, and tracked down the man for whom I work to complain. (Something to do with their pro-life stance).

Mostly people just love her, but tonight when I got out to do some shopping, a guy came up to me to gripe about the stickers. Apparently, his concerns were many. I’ll give the short list:

~Was I shitting him, or was I really going to vote for him?
~He didn’t trust Obama.
~That what if Obama won and started screwing over the people?
~That he might just turn out to be another Kennedy.
~That if he pissed off the right people, Obama would probably get…and here he made a gun with his hand and shot it, complete with sound effects.

I decided that he wasn’t some one with whom to test my particular concept of reality or reason with. He’s not the first to comment about my hopes for Obama, but he may be the last, for this car, at least.

My girl’s got seven more days on this planet in this particular body. After that, I’m putting my extra Obama stickers on my new second-hand truck. It’s a Toyota, which even though it’s built here, will piss off a brand new bunch of people!

Cheers, Dano.

I am afraid that the Democrats will fritter away what is the best opportunity in years to get into power and undo some of the wrongs that have been done to this country.