In New York, it's OK to throw away your vote
OK, the Occupy Wall Street folks have all been arrested. And the Republican candidates are all doing everything they can to mimic the stupidity of George Bush--poster child number 1 for the fact that you can't get elected president from the Republican side of our little political system here in the States if you can correctly use a sentence with punctuation somewhere in the middle. (Perry can't count to three? Have you all forgotten W???) All of which is enough to make any one with radical or progressive tendencies start to discuss the need to elect Obama. Blah blah blah. It makes me glad to live in New York where he'll likely win, so I can actually vote for some one with a vision and capability. So, to all my friends who are going to start wearing Obama buttons again soon, let me remind you: He's bailed out Goldman Sachs to the tune of over a billion a month, and has done such a bad job of economic leadership that it's now a recognized trope to say &