so...mesmerizing...

KITTENS.

That is all.

okay, getting a little angry now.

It's no great secret that I'm an Obama supporter. But that doesn't mean I'm a Clinton hater. True, as the race has dragged on, and her tactics have become increasingly slimy and divisive, I've kind of become increasingly disappointed with her as a candidate. But her quotes in this article in USA Today just make me angry.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

I'm sorry, did she just use "hard-working Americans" and "white Americans" as synonyms? Imply that Obama's supporters are not hard-working? Imply that members of any racial minority group are not hard-working? Not to mention, while I firmly believe that all Americans have the right to vote, regardless of educational background, I'm just a wee bit irked at the added implication that only non-college-educated voters really count. All us elitist college graduates don't know beans about picking a candidate, as evidenced by our overwhelming support for Obama.

But that's nothing compared to the part about how only the white vote actually matters.

I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, and assume she misspoke -- that, oh, maybe she meant to say "hard-working white Americans", and accidentally made it sound like two separate (but clearly synonymous!) categories. Which, y'know, is still kind of uncool, but not as offensive. Except then she goes on to clarify:

Clinton rejected any idea that her emphasis on white voters could be interpreted as racially divisive. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."

ONLY THE WHITE FOLKS COUNT, PEOPLE. Duh.

I am so, so angry. Especially at the argument that Clinton-supporting Democrats are so fundamentally stupid and racist that, should Obama be the Democratic nominee, they would automatically abandon their core political, social, and economic values and defect to the Republicans. Frankly, the type of voters she seems to be courting so aggressively right now won't be voting Democrat in the general election regardless of candidate. And in the meantime...gah. This is appalling. I'm sorry. My liberal rage, let me show you it.

And you know what? I liked Clinton. I would have been content to support her in the general election, if she had been the party's nominee. And now? She just leaves a bad taste in the back of my throat.

belatedly, BSG.

I held off watching last week's BSG for a while, because I didn't have much time for these things and I'd heard mostly negative things about it. But you know what? I really shouldn't get all nattered about other people's reactions, because it's pretty much a given that I will enjoy this show no matter what. Sure, some episodes are better than others, and some episodes, in retrospect, aren't all that great, and this wasn't one of the OMGFANTASTIC ones, but it had plenty of Helo and Sharon and Kara and Chief, and I'm kinda liking Baltar for some bizarre reason, so I'm good.

I just like this show a whole lot. And sure, I could turn on the super-analytical part of my brain, and pick it apart, and bemoan all its flaws, but that would just harsh my squee, and I enjoy my squee very, very much. Like Helo! Helo made me flail a lot in this episode. That was nifty.