"Together we can build a world that's just and inclusive for all."
With the tizzy that I've been in over Super Tuesday, I almost forgot about this misguided buffoon.
Moving on, or back I should say, look at us two *young* *under 30* voters communicating instantly via the Internets:
me (9:37:04 PM): haha mitt romney's fans are holding up "change" signs
me (9:37:08 PM): change how?
Moe (9:37:17 PM): haha
Moe (9:37:24 PM): his son is named tagg
me (9:37:52 PM): he said that its important to him to preserve the kind of nation that we've had because we all want our children to grow up with the kind of prosperity that we've had
me (9:37:58 PM): um who's "we" motherfucker
me (9:38:13 PM): tagg and mitt. boyhood games
Moe (9:40:47 PM): dog names
me (9:41:10 PM): ha
Moe (9:41:20 PM): yes, I want my children to grow up with racism, homophobia, no separation of church and state, and with a war going on
Moe (9:41:29 PM): what a motherfucker
me (9:41:38 PM): mmm yes and lots of poverty, too
me (9:41:43 PM): and failing schools
Moe (9:41:56 PM): yes, poverty and a giant fence around our country
me (9:42:00 PM): NOW that's the america i'd like to see my non-existent children grow up in
Moe (9:42:04 PM): and no health care!
me (9:42:05 PM): oh yes!
Moe (9:42:33 PM): how can people even buy that shit?
me (9:42:33 PM): and while we're at it
Moe (9:42:42 PM): yes?
me (9:42:43 PM): let's chain chastity belts onto our daughters
Moe (9:43:00 PM): and strip away roe v. wade
me (9:43:10 PM): and stop teaching evolution
me (9:43:21 PM): i'm not related to a monkey!
Moe (9:43:35 PM): haha
Moe (9:43:57 PM): god breathed life into adam and then made eve for child bearing purposes
me (9:44:14 PM): and laundry-doing purposes
Moe (9:44:35 PM): [Moe's ex-boyfriend] (9:44:54 PM): u see my guy huckabee mopping up
Moe (9:44:40 PM): AAHHHHHHHHHHH
me (9:44:48 PM): NO WAY
Moe (9:44:57 PM): huckabee is below the mason-dixon line conserv
me (9:46:33 PM): he fried squirrels with a popcorn maker in his dorm in college
One more thing. I've just watched McCain's speech, and then Obama's, and something has sort of come to me. Their rhetoric is so vastly different, and it's not just a Republican/Democrat, progressive/conservative thing. McCain spoke about the campaign, and about his opponents, and about being the Republican front-runner; his speech was focused. And his audience was supportive but subdued. Obama doesn't have the focus. He talks about the abolitionists and the suffragettes and the freedom-riders and the woman in New Orleans who was told her city won't be rebuilt; and his audience speaks back to him as he speaks to them. It's dynamic. Reminds me of the call-and-response phenomenon in African American English that I looked at in a few of my classes last semester. I wonder what implications the success of Obama's campaign, which must be very much related to his inspiring speeches, might be for the status of African American English in relation to "Standard" English. Although really, he doesn't follow that many of the linguistic rules of African American English (habitual be, absent copula, etc.).
If it's not blaringly obvious to you, my dear reader/s, I've updated this post at various points during my viewing of the primary coverage. Hence the hodge-podge-ness.
3 comments:
ellen,
suggestion: tiffy and buffoon, these words are not earning you readers. and you want that "s." you want to be sure of that "s," that way you don't have to put the effort of that slash in there.
also, interesting about Obama's speech style, de verdad. and hilarious post on my mom's blog, hopefully she'll figure out we put comments on it. she still types in every site she wants to go into google and goes to it from there instead of typing it in the address bar... so I am skeptical.
Ellen, we haven't talked in forever.
Also, Obama won both of our states :D
Also, this part of you and Moe's exchange made me laugh"
Moe (9:41:20 PM): yes, I want my children to grow up with racism, homophobia, no separation of church and state, and with a war going on
Moe (9:41:29 PM): what a motherfucker
me (9:41:38 PM): mmm yes and lots of poverty, too
me (9:41:43 PM): and failing schools
Moe (9:41:56 PM): yes, poverty and a giant fence around our country
me (9:42:00 PM): NOW that's the america i'd like to see my non-existent children grow up in
Of course. This is why I listen to their speeches and think, Did the two of us grow up in the same America? Apparently not.
Ron says Romney's supporters hold up baseball mitts at his speeches. LOL
-Melissa
cassie: once i was over at my Grandma's helping her get acquainted with her new Mac and had to repeatedly explain the difference between the delete button and the backspace button. "delete goes forward; backspace goes backward." and i had to keep reminding her where the space bar is. baby steps, i guess.
melissa: sometimes (not very often admittedly) i'll watch what's going on in the republican campaign. when i do, i think "umm and these are the people that are going to be running against the dignity leadership skills of either obama or clinton? seriously?" baseball mitts? come on. it's not even a good pun, and i've been known to enjoy puns.
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