<p>My hour long conversation turned into a 2 and a half hour conversation. It was weird.</p>
<p>Bated breath, my friends.</p>
<p>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>I asked all Obama supporters I encountered today to tell me why they support Obama. I got two good responses out of about 45.</p>
<p>In other news, my ToK teacher is obsessed with TED Talks.</p>
<p>I’m supporting Obama because what I look for in an executive isn’t completely based on a platform, since I’m center of both of them, so much as judgment, temperament, and the ability to surround themselves with good advisors and listen to them. I was happy with McCain as the Repub. nomination until he bailed out on his own legislation, adopted neocon-like policies instead, and essentially sold out to the far right. This is where he showed no integrity and no judgment. Then, he chose Sarah Palin as VP, that’s surrounding yourself with morons. McCain used to be one of my favorite Republicans, but in a shot for it all, he chose to let himself be run by Bush’s cronies and become the next vanguard of the neocon movement. That’s why I’m supporting Obama.</p>
<p>Edit: I hope that’s up to the Canadian’s snooty French school standards.</p>
<p>I bet that hip Canadian is a secret republican. I BET.</p>
<p>It was. That was the third good response I got today.</p>
<p>No, but seriously, more often than not, people will give you blank stares when asked why they support Obama. Everyone I asked seemed caught off guard and disoriented.</p>
<p>I know what you’re saying. In fairness, most of the people at my school supporting any politician wouldn’t be able to give a good reason why. I once told a “conservative” kid that I was, in fact, classically liberal, and he should stop talking about socialism. He then proceeded to talk about how FDR and other classic liberals were idiots. FDR a classic liberal? What? It was a palmface moment.</p>
<p>Should I justify myself too? </p>
<p>Nah. The Canadian likes me too much.</p>
<p>Hmm, I’m to lazy to edit so I’ll put this here. My laissez-faire beliefs don’t extend to a few markets, mainly credit, futures, and high risk securities. People have undervalued risk time and time again, and the speculation and irrational behaviors surrounding these markets call for regulation. That’s clearer now than ever before.</p>
<p>So I read this one poll wrong and for a minute I thought it said Tennessee turned blue, so I was all whatttt?!!?? and then I read it again and was like phew.</p>
<p>I saw a man holding an Obama sign outside a voting place. It made me smile.</p>
<p>Well, folks, we have our winner. America isn’t stupid after all.</p>
<p>I’ll PM my Ouijaness to those who seek the truth.</p>
<p>Hot damn.</p>
<p>Good night.</p>
<p>Just epic. I’m speechless.</p>
<p>So I had a fun day.</p>
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<p>Gimme gimme.</p>
<p>I had the worst Halloween ever.</p>
<p>I have an extremely busy weekend. I have tomorrow and Friday off school, but that doesn’t help. Tomorrow I have to work from 9-3, and then I’m going to the opera from 4-11. Friday morning I will have the pleasure of having my wisdom teeth extracted. I’m not really sure how that will influence the rest of my weekend. I do still have three newspaper articles to write, calculus and accounting homework to finish, and a speech to prepare. I’ll probably write my newspaper articles while I’m high on painkillers. Please take my posts for this weekend with a grain of salt, since I will be under the influence when I write them.</p>
<p>I feel jazzed.</p>
<p>Do you never respond to anyone’s comments? BAAHHH!</p>
<p>If you feel jazzed, then I feel popped.</p>
<p>Baseball starts tomorrow. It just ended a few weeks ago. Ughh, I have to eat healthy and work out again. It was a good few weeks.</p>
<p>I got mad today.</p>