bass ackwards

im not sure what the Detroit News was aiming for with this article, but heres what i got from it:

Michigan shot itself in the foot. we tried to be more relevant on a national level and ended up irrelevant. now Michigan's democratic big wigs are scrambling to be seated at the convention.

so upon the scene arrives, tho no one says how, Robert Bragar. an extremely well educated man who has lived in Europe for 14 years. married to another man. without car. and he wants to be Michigan's voice. all half vote of him. (apparently foreign based Democrats get 11 votes but 22 delegates because this whole convention process is really well thought out.)

so he wants to come home. which i take as back to the US. tho he was born in Jersey, and educated on the east coast, I imagine a Michigan haven would be welcome. but Michigan is one of those states that placed a ban on gay marriage. you might as well outlaw masturbation. people are still going to do everything a married couple does and still get deprived of the legal benefits of marriage and recognition from society. a society, i add, that claims to lead the world.

so what to take from all this? Michigan is stupid. ive always been proud to be from there, but this whole election thing is an embarrassment and outlawing gay marriage is just bigoted and ignorant and i cant believe that ballot initiative went through. passing half baked laws is not what makes you relevant. it makes you irrelevant. it wastes legislative time. it leaves Michigan worse off than it was.

i dont know how to tie a nice little ribbon on this turd. i just wish i wasnt disappointed in my home state. i wash i wastnt beginning to feel embarrassed for the first time in my life for being from a state that has become so backwards of late.

i'm worried.

the thought of losing America's largest generation and soon to be largest portion of the electorate to a democratic party meltdown it terribly frightening and depressing. all those jokes that Jon Stewart and his contemporaries make about how the democrats will lose the election that Bush has served up for them now seem dangerously close to coming true. this article points out the problem and the consequences and i just hope that our country doesnt suffer as a result, but i fear it will.

dumb-o-crats

sweet title, huh? yea, i thought of that all by myself.

in all seriousness, the democrats need to get their shit together. Florida and Michigan moved up their primaries, violating party rules, so the democrats didnt count them. now that Obama and Clinton are nose to nose, maybe they do want to count those states.

thing is, they can use the previous numbers, Obama wasnt even on Michigan's ballot. so that means a new one. but they are talking $10mil for a new one. i dont know about Florida, but the mitten cannot afford that on public money. so there have been all sorts of ideas, the latest being a mail in vote.

wake up, dummies. its called the internet. set up a website. send party members a letter or email with a login and password to get on and vote. the party can set this up and run it easily an inexpensively, and they should handle it. it shouldnt fall to the states or the voters, because its their own squabbling that brought this about. kids have polls on their myspace pages. for free. it takes like 5 minutes. FOR FREE.

c'mon, its the 90's!!!

dude, its freepy.