Watching the RNC between dry heaves

So I watched the RNC last night. Okay that’s not exactly true. I watched most of Guiliani’s two faced speech and then Sarah Palin’s. Thank God I had a small dinner last night because listening to her was making me physically ill. Fortunately I was only paying marginal attention to it because I was also busy typing up a response paper to a reading from my Cultural Diversity class. I think that nausea began with chants of (urgh) “Drill Baby Drill.” WHAT THE FUCK?????? These are the people who will send this country straight back to the dark ages. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. OMIGOD. As an African American I have to tell you, I felt like the audience was one step away from the fucking clan!

As sick as I got I did not turn it off. I feel it is very important to be as educated about your enemy’s positions as it is about your own. I can’t afford to only see one side of these issues. But I couldn’t see myself anywhere in that convention! NO WHERE! I realize that people in the Midwest feel that cosmopolitan dwellers are freaky elitist snobs and that we think they are dumb, narrow minded redneck idiots. But let’s face it. In urban dwellings there is a diversity that reflects the entire world more accurately than the Midwest does. The Midwest is a large part of America and have a large part in defining what we have come to understand as traditional Americana but THEY ARE NOT AMERICA! Lord help us if this woman becomes second in command!

This morning on GMA they gathered a group of teenagers to talk about Palin’s pregnant daughter and essentially they all agreed that it was their parents who influenced their decisions about sex more than anything else. I’m sorry but correct me if I’m wrong. Aren’t we supposed the trying the lower the rates of teenage pregnancy in this country. Hasn’t that been one of the major political issues for the last I don’t know how many years and then McCain picks a virtual political nobody whose teenage daughter is pregnant and all of a sudden, no wait! That’s okay because at least she’s getting married to the baby daddy! HUUUUUHHH!!!!! Where the fuck am I? Is this really what’s happening? If this happened in the Obama family THEY WOULD TEAR HIS ASS UP! NO QUESTION! This is some bullshit!

Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that a response to something of this nature would be to just shrug it off and not identify it as the serious issue it is. Excuse me…feeling sick again.