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georginasand"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a career in politics" ~George Bernard Shaw
Here's an apology to the Turkish Patriot: for not putting up the rest of my notes from the Conventions or the 1st debates, and for not taking notes on the Vice Presidential debates. School is starting to get in the way of real life.
College is like a pressure cooker in many ways, you take a whole bunch of emotionally and hormonally charged teenagers from different regions, cultures, religions, dump a whole load of school work on them, and then push them off the cliff of childhood into real life. And in the fall of every fourth year, you add politics and lightly simmer until November.
So politics has come up in conversations on floors, in classes, with that random guy waiting next to you in the ridiculous line for sandwiches (seriously, does everyone have to want to eat lunch at 12:20), and I keep having to try to explain my political leanings. Which don't really exist yet. I'm mean I know how I want the world to look, and know that I'd like a good education: "57 men risked their necks to sign the Declaration of Indepence and I'd like to see us (or US) do right by them." And that keeping democracy would be nice.
But the scary part is I vote in this election. I...push the button...and then a 7:00 the polls close and CNN tells us who the president is...and I had some part of that decision. I realize that the Electoral College is supposed to help balance things out, but zomg , I'm supposed to choose the person who runs the country. What if I pick the wrong person or worse a thousand people pick the wrong person and this whole thing goes under.
Also, I have two problems with the vice presidential debates:
1) The register: what happened to "with all do respect" and "my esteemed colleague" ? If Palin says um one more time, or Biden refers to Dick Luger by his first name one more time, heads will roll.
2) Palin quoted Ronald Reagan as saying that the United States will be a "shining city on the hill." You know who else said that...William Bradford... John Winthrop...in freaking 1620 1630. Please, Please, give credit where credit is due.
I remain,
Georgie
Here's an apology to the Turkish Patriot: for not putting up the rest of my notes from the Conventions or the 1st debates, and for not taking notes on the Vice Presidential debates. School is starting to get in the way of real life.
College is like a pressure cooker in many ways, you take a whole bunch of emotionally and hormonally charged teenagers from different regions, cultures, religions, dump a whole load of school work on them, and then push them off the cliff of childhood into real life. And in the fall of every fourth year, you add politics and lightly simmer until November.
So politics has come up in conversations on floors, in classes, with that random guy waiting next to you in the ridiculous line for sandwiches (seriously, does everyone have to want to eat lunch at 12:20), and I keep having to try to explain my political leanings. Which don't really exist yet. I'm mean I know how I want the world to look, and know that I'd like a good education: "57 men risked their necks to sign the Declaration of Indepence and I'd like to see us (or US) do right by them." And that keeping democracy would be nice.
But the scary part is I vote in this election. I...push the button...and then a 7:00 the polls close and CNN tells us who the president is...and I had some part of that decision. I realize that the Electoral College is supposed to help balance things out, but zomg , I'm supposed to choose the person who runs the country. What if I pick the wrong person or worse a thousand people pick the wrong person and this whole thing goes under.
Also, I have two problems with the vice presidential debates:
1) The register: what happened to "with all do respect" and "my esteemed colleague" ? If Palin says um one more time, or Biden refers to Dick Luger by his first name one more time, heads will roll.
2) Palin quoted Ronald Reagan as saying that the United States will be a "shining city on the hill." You know who else said that...
I remain,
Georgie
