Are You Suffering from Election Insanity?

Are you finding it hard to focus? When you think about the possibility of McCain winning next week do you feel lost and bewildered at what that would mean to your life? Do you feel like your head is about to explode?

Me too.

Are you hysterically ambivalent? Do you go between watching and reading every single word spoken and written about the election, following every poll and poll of poll and poll of poll of poll...and never wanting to hear another pundit ever again, even Rachel Maddow?

Me too. Well maybe not Rachel Maddow.

Do you go from one frame of mind to another? From envisioning an America which has just elected the first African-American in its history and is in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing...with some hope for the future...to envisioning an America who has just voted out of fear and hatred and believed all of the lies...again?

Me too.

It's a good thing I live in Oregon, where an Obama victory is assured. And if the worst happens, it'll be a good place to stay.

I usually have an election-night party at my house. I may not. In 2004, everyone came over enthused. Remember the exit polls? Remember how you felt when it went the other way?

Think of that times, oh say, a hundred million this year.

Get a grip on yourself, D'Antoni.

I voted last week. In Oregon we have vote-by-mail. I won't debate the merits of that method, but when I filled out the ballot, I didn't have the feeling I thought I would have voting for Obama. I mean, I cried during his acceptance speech in Denver, didn't you?

I made a mistake while voting. My wife and I were sitting at the kitchen table filling out our ballots and I accidentally signed her ballot envelope by mistake. Even though it had her name plainly printed on it.

After absorbing the deserved abuse, I suggested we take our ballots to the election board and make sure everything was Kosher. It was. But instead of handing them to the man behind the counter like I thought I would, the African-American man behind the counter pointed to a light blue plastic box with a slot in the top.

I suddenly realized what I was going to do. I turned to my wife and asked if she wanted to put he own in. She did. It was obvious why.

My action of dropping my ballot in the box was quick but it seemed like I was moving in slow-motion and I filled up and flushed with emotion. I just got the same feeling typing this.

I felt like maybe my life had meaning after all. Maybe in some minuscule way all of the things I had done...written...put on TV...said on the radio...to try to promote love and understanding had somehow paid off.

And now I think, if McCain wins, will that all be washed away and destroy any remaining hope I had for America?

Like I said, can somebody make this election be over?

You feel that way too?

Is the McCain Campaign is Being Secretly Run by Democrats?

Seems that way.The Republicans appear to be following a script written by people who want to see them not only lose, but lose big and be humiliated and reviled at the same time.

What other explanation could there by for the sociopathic insanity of their campaign. One of these days a psychologist will write a book diagnosing the actions of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rick Davis, Steve Schmidt and the rest of the bunch. Since psychologists don't deal with good v. evil, there will have to be a logical explanation of what seems to be pure insanity.

It can't be written off as "politics" or even "tough politics," as McCain likes to call it. It's more than that. What do you call constant lying? What name do you give to the attempt to destroy another human being's character? To paint him as a traitor? To play to hatred? Indeed, to stoke and cultivate hatred?

No, this is not to be forgiven. Barack Obama seems to be so convinced that nothing can be done without dragging the Republicans in with him and governing under an "American" umbrella, and an "Earth" umbrella. He must be much more forgiving than I am. Or perhaps he has something in store for the Republicans when he takes office. Like prosecutions of the Bush war criminals, for starters.

It appears that Americans have caught on. Only the haters are responding to McCain and Palin's lowest common denominator attacks, and those dimwits weren't going to vote for Obama anyway. Never has the word "base" been more apt. Other words for "base" are….dishonorable, ignoble, sordid, immoral, vile and corrupt.

That about sums it up, doesn't it?

Reap the whirlwind, Republicans.