Backblogged

I have been composing blog posts in my head now for weeks about the election but grad school has taken it's toll and I feel like I have to collect and footnote all the articles I have been reading to support my claims. But this is a blog and I don't have to do any such thing. So here it is. McCain disgusts me more and more every day because of his lying, pandering, and ridiculously frightening pick of Palin. My fears all along that this country is still so racially prejudice that the best presidential candidate in years may be denied the presidency simply based on his race seem very well founded (check out Yahoo's latest poll about voters sterotypes about African Americans). And now all the talk of bailing out the seriously irresponsible people on wall street makes me furious. I say all the managers get fined from their huge salaries and give the buy out money to the schools. If we have it to spend, it certainly doesn't need to go to a bunch of rich idiots, who will undoubtedly do the same crap again--with or without new regulations.