One Wednesday November 5th, 2008 I went to work wearing a dark suit, white shirt and a black tie. I work in a business causal environment so seeing someone in a suit usually means one thing, they have an interview. I am not sure why but everyone always wants to be around you when you have an interview. Maybe because they want to know more about possible openings inside the company, perhaps it is because there is someone in the world ready to move on up and people want to be close to this new power broker, but probably it is because in the cubical world that we live in, it is just what people do.
Anyway, I came in wearing a suit and as I suspected it got some attention. I was asked where I was interviewing and with what group. I let them know the sad news that I was not interviewing but rather that the prior night I had lost a dear friend. Of course, the loss of friend is never an easy thing to deal with, no one is quite sure what to say and it is a sad moment to reflect on the mortality we all face.
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As a political conservative, I’ve written previously about how thrilled I was that John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin as his vice president. (See Culture Feast article I Finally Have a Horse in the Race.) I wasn’t the only one who was excited by his choice. McCain’s poll numbers enjoyed a bounce after the announcement. Donors infused money into his campaign.
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My husband, Kevin, recently came home from a European business trip. Over the course of a week and a half, he visited Poland, England and Ireland. Even though he was across the Atlantic Ocean, he knew exactly what was going on in America because of the constant European news coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Given the time frame and the pervasive news, the first question everyone asked him when they found out he was an American was, “So, who are you going to vote for in the election?” Kevin honestly answered, “I don’t know, yet.” And then usually the inquisitor would go off on Bush. They love Obama and they see McCain as another four years of what we’ve had for the past eight.
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Sen. John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate and I’m thrilled.
You see, I’m a conservative, and here’s what that means to me. I’m for small government, small taxes, and largely a keep-your-nose-out-of my-business-type government–unless someone is getting hurt. I think government should protect the country and keep roads paved, and that’s about it. Prisons? Privatize them. The education system? Privatize it. The healthcare system? I don’t know what we should do about that. We’ve done a bit of both privatizing and government intervention and it’s still a mess. I’ll leave that debate to people who have answers.
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The August 15 issue of Entertainment Weekly featured interviews with presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. It was a light interview in which the reporter asked questions like, “Who controls the remote in your home?” “What was the last movie you saw in a theatre?” “Who do you think made the best president in a TV show or movie?” Knowing the reporter wasn’t out to get them and that there wasn’t any wrong answer, the candidates felt free to be spontaneous and give readers a glimpse of how “normal” the men are without having an agenda to promote or talking points they had to stick to.
For instance, McCain likes ABBA. The first movie he ever saw was Bambi. And while he never voted for an American Idol contestant, his wife, Cindy, called in for Jordin Sparks of Glendale, AZ. He also thought that Dennis Haysbert on 24 made the best president and his favorite superhero is Batman.
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Well let me go on record as saying I was completely wrong in who I thought John McCain was going to pick. I was hopeful for Mike Huckabee but thought it would be Mitt Romney, I know people were talking about the governor of Minnesota or of Florida but I did not think that was the way he was going to go.
As I looked at the choices I really did not see how any of them, even my beloved Huckabee would really help McCain. Here is what I felt John needed to do to be elected President:
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Culture Feast has several opinion articles written about this year’s highly-anticipated election year. We’ve seen articles that bash McCain and we’ve seen articles that bash Obama. To me, it seems there are definitely more anti-Obama articles on the internet, but then again I’ll freely admit I have bias. Supporting my opinion is the fact that Barack Obama’s camp had to literally create a website to dispel all the rumors and misinformation that has been plaguing him since he stepped into the political race.
With that said, I feel compelled to write on behalf of the Senator who is officially nominated for the Democratic party for the President of the United States. I was speaking with a few family members, all die-hard conservatives, about Barack Obama. It became so clear to me that this election seems different than any other election I’ve witnessed in my 31 years of age. Every election has had heated debates and has been filled with attacks, mostly all of them biased and inaccurate. But I think I can fairly debate that Obama seems to have more inaccurate and “urban legend-like” emails about him, his family and his performance than any other candidate that has run for President.
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One Wednesday November 5th, 2008 I went to work wearing a dark suit, white shirt and a black tie. I work in a business causal environment so seeing someone in a suit usually means one thing, they have an interview. I am not sure why but everyone always wants to be around you when you have an interview. Maybe because they want to know more about possible openings inside the company, perhaps it is because there is someone in the world ready to move on up and people want to be close to this new power broker, but probably it is because in the cubical world that we live in, it is just what people do.
