VERY FEEL

I made a promise to myself when I started this blog that I wouldn’t let VERY FEEL become a platform for the under-informed, over-emotional political ranting that I subject so many of my friends to offline. But according to everyone on American TV, this presidential election is very important and who you support says EVERYTHING about who you are as a person. Today my friend Becky B sent me this video and I thought, well, I might as well just come clean with it: I am a slender, mixed-race man from Illinois with good hair and a LOT of musically gifted, physically attractive friends.

However, I am still cynical enough to recognize the sappy meaninglessness of a lot of what comes from my candidate’s mouth. So, in the interest of Fox News fairness, I’ve got to include this excerpt from Mark Steel’s on point editorial in last week’s Independent:

Obama now has a video, in which a variety of celebrities sing the words “vote, change and hope” It would be worth trying to confuse one of his canvassers by saying, “Oh no, I’d rather support someone who’s against hope. It only brings trouble, hope does.” But perhaps he’ll get more ambitious and make whole speeches full of random words, telling the people of Montana, “Brothers and sisters, buttercup Barcelona laminated frog radish but not and never hedgehog.”

So, token acknowledgment of other perspectives granted, I’ll now move on to the flesh & blood of American electoral politics: de-humanizing the opponents.

Take a chill pillary clinton: