Please let even half of this be true. Hell, I’d settle for a third; that would still be a vast improvement. Please let this man get elected in spite of the right-wing idiots who’ll see, “Viet Nam war veteran gook-killer! USA-USA-USA!” and “Creationist, militantly pro-life hockey mom, former Miss Congeniality who believes Jesus will return in her lifetime”. (I wish that were an exaggeration, but it isn’t) and vote on absolutely nothing else. Please let this man not get assassinated by some lunatic with a rifle who thinks The Rapture is coming and Jeebus wants his help. Please let enough people vote on stuff that matters, not on flag pins or columns, or what school someone went to when he was seven, whether or not Adam and Steve want to get married, or the supposed “elitism” of someone who can actually string together sentences in an intelligent manner, knows it’s the 21st century, can use “the email” and “the Google”, understands that middle class Americans do not make half a million dollars a year, probably wouldn’t fit in at a football tailgate party, and can find Spain on a map. Don’t let average Americans elect themselves because the average American is a fucking idiot. Universal health care isn’t “them libruls turnin’ Merrikuh into commies” or even real socialism; it’s giving the citizens of a wealthy country in the Western world the chance to go to a goddamned doctor when they’re sick, even if they do work for a cheap-ass company that will do anything to squeeze another dime out for the shareholders. Reaganomics didn’t work…nothing trickled down and the few crumbs thrown to us by the wealthy are not enough. Supply-side Jesus is not helping us. We can’t just keep doing what we’ve been doing for the past eight years and expect different results. The results we’ve got have been horrific and…our own fault. You keep doing the same things and you’re going to get the same results; it’s that simple. We’re destroying ourselves because all it takes is for good people to do nothing when the not-so-good people get out of line. No politician is perfect, and they all lie to one extent or another, but if nothing else, Obama has the ability to motivate and inspire what has become a cynical, jaded and (dare I say) bitter populace that doesn’t believe itself capable of anything anymore and is so busy pitting Red vs. Blue over stupid shit that we’re no longer the “united” anything. Please, America…the world is watching. China and India are catching up. Do the right thing.

Barack Obama, Green Bay, WI, 22-09-08

Oh yeah. When I forget…. självbevarelsedrift means “self-preservation” or “self-defence”. I think it’s self-defence more like “I ran from the knife-wielding mugger” than “I shot the burglar before he got both legs through the window”, though. Not sure of that and forgot to ask, but it is a real word even if it does look like half the alphabet. I like it! 🙂

EDIT: A little fully bilingual dude clarification….it means “the drive to survive”. I (heart) Lars. 😆