Why aren't you voting for Obama?

"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude." - John McCain, Victory Speech Feb. 12, 2008

Why would anyone vote for John McCain? Why would anyone embrace his hopeless world view, his ceaseless grasping at decrepit and tattered ideals, his war mongering? To whom is that world view appealing, comforting, empowering?

McCain's speech last night was anti-Obama, anti-hope. It portrayed Obama as a spouter of baseless platitudes, an empty shell decorated with flowery rhetoric and childish idealism. McCain is the gruff, experienced father figure to Obama's juvenile hope. McCain has been there, he has experience. He has fabricated an illusion of himself as a maveric, a lone gun, lone wolf who does not conform to party lines, but rather forever comforms to failed and outdated, "sound and proven" ideals of Cold War, Beaver Cleaver yesteryear.

Again I ask, to whom is that world view appealing?

Are we really living in a time in which we do not desire idealism, hope, change? Is McCain's chalky complexion, his doddering speeches, his entrenched ideology a thrilling vision of the future?

Who wants that?

Who wants what we have, what we've always had? Who wants a continuation of the norm? Whose desires are so juvenile as to forever embrace the known, idealized, flawed past rather than to hope for something better and take a chance on change?

Last night McCain gave his speech in front of a crowd of less than 300. His backdrop a pearly field of aged, decrepid, indoctrinated animate corpses. Obama gave his speech to a screaming, multi-cultural crowd of 17,000.

Obama is a vision for America, a hope. Obama is genuine change and a chance at something better. Obama is asking for your vote with the hope that the process does not stop there, that you will be involved with and participate in the change he hopes to make.

McCain? He just wants you to vote for him and then get off his lawn.

And Hillary? She is Bill Clinton 2.0, the tried and true policy hack more concerned with winning than helping. In her hands are the leash to her attack dog husband, her soulless media machine, her whore of a daughter. Hers is a promise of a return to the known, a change of gender to unchanged policies, tactics, and schemes. Her strength is her experience, Rumsfeld's experience, Cheney's experience. She is the Washington we've known and loathed, despised and ignored out of frustration. She is the Democratic side of the coin; McCain is the Republican side of the coin.

Obama is not on their coin.

Obama is something new.

Obama is hope.

To whom is that not appealing?