tired of the lies

I'm so glad that this campaign is almost over. The constant barrage of lies that we have been forced to listen to are enough to make me physically ill. I'm mostly tired of hearing people like Sarah Palin slander a United States Senator over and over again, and make the country terrified that Democrats are dangerous. Dangerous! The party of John F. Kennedy is a danger! We're going to eat your babies! What the hell? When did it get to this point, that I actually believe that Republicans are evil monsters who want to cut down all the forests and kill all the polar bears and throw the Democrats in Gitmo and they think I'm a dangerous, mornonic terrorist-in-training who hates America and worships Satan?

I am NOT DANGEROUS. I AM NOT A TERRORIST FOR DISAGREEING WITH YOU ABOUT GOVERNMENT POLICIES. I have hope for the future. I want breathable air and drinkable water and biodiversity and solar power. I want birth control. I want people to be able to live without fear that their health insurance will be canceled the minute they get cancer. I love weddings and think that if two people care about each other enough to have one, they should get to have one--regardless of their genders.

I'm tired of Republicans painting me as the other, of questioning my patriotism, and of calling me stupid. And some of the things that I've heard and seen coming from McCain-Palin rallies frighten me. This man held up monkey doll that he dressed up in an Obama sticker, and the other Republicans around him CHEERED.

This is a time to try to find some middle ground, to try and compromise and figure out how we can work together, because if we don't this country will be torn apart. There is only one candidate who is asking us to do this, to work as one country, to come together rather than trying to divide us even further. That candidate is Barack Obama. I have hope for the future again, for the first time in a very, very long time.