Can't Get No...Democracy...

So....theoretically, I should have voted today. Tuesday January 15th. Michigan primary. But there was apparently a lot of failure going around.

First, I seem to have failed to request my ballot in time. It came yesterday. While I was hanging out in the woods. Nothing quite went as planned, but CMT called and I was there. I needed the money. Democracy sold for a pretty shitty day rate.

Not that it really matters except in principal. Everyone else seems to have sold out a long time ago. I can't say that I don't hold a grudge. I resent the candidates for participating in the disenfranchisement of voters. Obama and Edwards refusal to even put themselves on the ballot. Do you care more for party politics than for the voters? Let the party do what they like, but saying that any election date is more important than the political voices of every person in the entire state of Michigan is...well bollocks.

The party pisses me off. I won't get into it. It's stupid--on both sides.

But I don't see how disallowing, throwing out the vote is a suitable resolution for either group.

Here's a little background if that didn't make sense.

The Funny Version from The Detroit Free Press

The Other Still Good Version from the BBC


It probably still doesn't make sense.


I am an unhappy American.