Animal Collective

There is a reason that Hillary has beat McCain by a wider margin than Obama: people are stupid. I spent my weekend at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival and had the privilege of seeing Roger Waters play on Sunday night. About midway through the set, a giant, inflated pig came out from behind the stage and began to float through the crowd. The pig had different bits of writing on it, things like "Don't be led to the slaughter", "Fear builds walls" and "Obama [check mark]". Then a plane flew overhead, several times, releasing something as it passed. Very few of the pieces of paper the plane dropped actually made it to the crowd, the wind having picked up during Waters' performance, but the ones that did fall on us read "Obama" over and over again. Awesome! I love Obama, as a presidential candidate as well as (so far as I know) a person. Unfortunately, the fliers that missed the Empire Polo Field were scattered over a 2-mile radius nearby and well...that just pissed off all the rich, implacable people. A woman from Indio actually said, "I am just appalled. All of our gardeners will now have to spend the whole day trying to clean this up." "All of our gardeners"? "All of our gardeners". Seriously? Yeah, it must be real tough on you lady, to have your underpaid gardener clean up some confetti. I can feel your pain. That must set back your gardeners work on your rose bushes by at least a day. How ghastly! How "derelict", according to this same woman. Apparently, despite the fact that Roger Waters released these fliers, without approval from the city, the festival coordinators OR Barack Obama, citizens have decided this is satisfactory enough to change their vote. "If I was going to vote for Obama, I wouldn't this morning if this is how he runs his campaign," said some shallow moron from an RV resort. But wait, maybe he has a point, maybe we shouldn't vote for people based off of things they had nothing to do with. Maybe we should take the opinions of those with whom candidates have associated with, and apply them to the candidates themselves. Maybe we should ignore certain candidates blatant lies about sniper fire in Bosnia but criticize others because their ex-pastor is a little nutty. Maybe its just me, but the privileged, snobby, elitist, arrogant, stubborn, greedy, whiney, spoiled upper class is really starting to chafe.