I asked permission from a friend of mine to repost his rant from Facebook. I don't think there is any information that we don't already know, but it sums up the state of the election and the thinking of the country quite nicely in my opinion.
Without further ado, I give you the bagel-free, shiney offerings of Tarryk:
One last political "rageface.jpg" before the election, just to get it off my chest, then my political brain is done and I'm simply going to vote (for Obama).
Ignorance is all over the place on the Conservanet. Obama-haters still hating without any real evidence, eating up every Mitt speech as though it WASN'T 100% brazen lies completely contradicted by every nonpartisan fact-check site that he "won't be dictated by". All because Obama just doesn't look that trustworthy to them (read as: black dude with a muslim name, but don't you dare bring it up because they won't refute it, they'll just say you're "playing the race card"... which somehow nullifies the truth of it in their brain).
It seems from everything I've read that they can't really put a finger on any facts against Obama beyond really vague "he signed a bill that I don't like that one time as explained in this fact-filled (cough) ultra-conservative report" that could be (and in most cases has been) directly and irrefutably attributed to the exact same leadership methods used by every president for the past CENTURY, so they all just blame the failed economy on "the Commie Muslim" while playing pretend that Bush had nothing to do with the economy's collapse based on nothing more than being "tired of hearing people blame Bush" for something it has already been proven that he is at 100% fault for, and that Obama has already inarguably put us on the road to recovery from.
You hate Obama for absolutely no legitimate reason other than not having anything to blame your own apathy and xenophobia on, combined with the refusal to admit that the "American Dream" has been diluted with corporate dictatorships disguised as "freedom of capitalism", and that socialized programs have been a part of the U.S. system SINCE IT WAS CREATED and have done ONLY GOOD for us since the dawn of our country, and that YOU LOVE AND USE THOSE SYSTEMS EVERY DAY, provided we don't actually call them "socialized programs", because that just sounds dirty-commie-liberal-yucky to you. Grow the fuck up.
Quit pretending that Obama is at fault for your baseless fears and the corporate sector's refusal to give your cousin a job after the bottomless bailouts they received from your conservative republican saviors and the record profits they've made over the past 3 years that you haven't seen a dime on but don't care because the fractional amount the government deficit has increased has been blown out of proportion with a God-sized highlighter pen by your upper-class friends at FOX News.
Obama is one of the few people who is still trying to change the system to work FOR the people, and it's a long process that is littered with the roadblocks and ceaseless filibustering of your sky-bully-worshipping, ignorant, pasty, troll-faced conservative majority politicians.
Meanwhile, your Mormon savior is trying to do the same crap all over again, pandering to the ultra-rich and literally kicking the lower class aside and calling it freedom and equality. And you're going to kiss his ass for it?
Don't be an idiot.
You don't have to be a liberal, but you can't cut Obama off half-way through an economic upturn that he ALREADY SAID TIME AND AGAIN WOULD TAKE LONGER THAN FOUR YEARS and claim vindication that he didn't get "the job done" fast enough. Especially not when you're going to hand it to a pair of delusional, vapid liars who's combined plan is 50% unexplained faith-based nonsense and 50% fact-checked into oblivion as a plan that would literally turn a 6-year economic recovery for all classes into a 13-year recovery for the Forbes list and a disastrous cut-off for everyone else.
Vote Obama. Hell, you don't even have to admit it to your friends, since they'll just call you a commie, I know. The vote is yours and yours alone, and your privacy is guaranteed in this great American system. Go ahead and tell people you voted for Romney-Ryan. But for the love of the country, PLEASE PLEASE punch the Obama-Biden ticket.
I give this a golf clap and two thumbs up.