I guess that I am one of those "elitist snob" voters who is bitter about the direction of our country. I am one of those dead ender 81% who believes that the country is on the wrong track.
Why am I bitter? Let me count the ways...
I am bitter because we are still in Iraq. Heck, I am bitter that we went to war there in the first place.
I am bitter that we now have definite proof that the Bush administration was ordering torture and even orchestrating it but we do not hear much about it because there are so many other more important things to discuss like drinking orange juice, bowling scores and whether voters are bitter.
I am bitter that we torture people at all and that we are still discussing whether it is ok or not since they are bad people. I guess we practice the divine torture of the righteous since we do not even need a trial to determine if that person is guilty or not.
I am bitter that one of the architects of the torture regime, John Yoo, is a tenured law professor at Berkeley, thus assuring his ideology will get passed on to our next generation of lawyers.
I am bitter that people who were wrong about the war get a lot of space in the media to explain how Bush messed up their completely benign and good war and that the people who were right about the war are not given any attention.
I am bitter that my tax money is paying people who are hurting America and do not serve our interests. Not only Bush, Cheney and the gang but people like Monica Goodling who fires people because they are gay and U.S. attorneys who prosecute people because they are Democrats.
I am bitter because we still have politicians that demonize others and blame outsiders for problems instead of looking at their own behavior.
I am bitter that we spend taxpayer money to bail out failing banks, but not failing taxpayers.
I am bitter that we do not have universal healthcare and it does not look like we will have it anytime soon.
I am bitter because this is probably the most important election in my lifetime and all we can talk about is this kind of trivia shit.