![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nov. 5th, 2008
ALWAYS BET ON BLACK
Nov. 5th, 2008 07:06 pmIn case you haven’t heard:
Wow. 349-147 (give or take Georgia, Missouri and North Carolina, who are still counting as I type this). And as a bonus prize, solid controlling gains in Congress for the Demos. And seven new governorships for good measure. Prompting my favorite election joke: “The good news is the Republicans lost. The bad news is the Democrats won.”
Ha ha.
In fairness, though, the GOP had it coming, for well-documented reasons that need not be repeated here. If you have to ask, you probably voted for McCain. Frankly, they should have lost by an even bigger margin.
Speaking of which (and here is where I start jabbering at the TV again, so you might as well skip to the next post), the next phase of the election will be the right-wing OMG freakout as they realize that America just elected al Qaeda’s Kenya bureau chief and that by this time next year they’ll be living in the Gay Muslim Socialist Mexican Republic Of Allah (GMSMRA), where gay marriage is mandatory (Arizona, Florida), Christianity is punishable by death, Spain is the official language and the tax rate is something like 98%.
I’m exaggerating. I hope. But you’ll notice that Obama’s “landslide” victory was a much closer race in the pop vote. Something like 46% of the country voted for McCain – that’s around 55 million people. And a good chunk of them by their own proud admission voted for McCain because they think Obama is Teh Terrorz. They will not go quietly.
Just you watch. You thought talk radio was paranoid back in the mid-90s when Clinton ran his secret cocaine-funded real estate scams while his fleet of black helicopters transported the bodies of people he had “silenced” to secret airfields where unregistered C-130 cargo planes collected them and air-dropped them into a mass grave somewhere in Indonesia? Ha ha, Jim. The Obama fantasies will make Hillbillary Clinton look like John Wayne. As far as they’re concerned, McCain is the President of Real America and they will serve him, not Osama bin Laden’s personal butler.
Meanwhile, Obama will have his work cut out for him trying to clean up Junior Bush’s mess. Those of you hoping he’ll make good on his “Change” plank will be disappointed. He is not the American Jesus you’ve been waiting for, the recession is inevitable and the troops will not be home any time soon. And at least one state that voted for him (Florida) also amended its constitution to make marriage for heterosexuals only in the interest of national security. Californialooks as if it’s going to go the same way ditto. John McCain’s home state certainly did.
Bipartisanship!
Yes. Homophobic fuckwits. Call that change? Cos I don’t.
On the other hand, Michigan, South Dakota, Colorado and Massachusetts approved medical marijuana initiatives (at least until Donald Wildmon personally sues every state govt and beats activist judges with Bibles until they declare the referendums unconstitutional).
Progress!
Well, no matter. Rome wasn’t burned in a day. It took us over 200 years to elect a black dude President. It’ll probably be another hundred before Americans can handle the idea of a gay president (let alone – OMG! – a gay black president!).
Either way, it’s good to have Obama at the helm. He’s not just the first Non-Old-White-Guy president – he’s a reincarnation of the Horatio Alger mythology that defined the American Dream for the first half of the 20th Century before it was beaten to death by Joe McCarthy and Vegas casino enforcers in the 1950s or thereabouts.
Or is that laying things on too thick?
Okay then, let's say he’s the first post-Boomer president whose political views don’t ultimately hinge on whether Vietnam was a good or bad idea. That’s a good thing. He’s more in tune with the modern world than McCain ever was. And if he doesn’t accomplish anything else in the next four years, he’s already accomplished one of the most important items on his checklist – convincing the world to see America as a country they can work with and look up to instead of a country to fear and despise.
Believe it or not,
This is dF
#####
EDITED TO ADD [11/6]: The votes are in. California (which said Yes We Can to Obama) said "No You Can't" to gay marriage. Res ipsa loquitur.
Wow. 349-147 (give or take Georgia, Missouri and North Carolina, who are still counting as I type this). And as a bonus prize, solid controlling gains in Congress for the Demos. And seven new governorships for good measure. Prompting my favorite election joke: “The good news is the Republicans lost. The bad news is the Democrats won.”
Ha ha.
In fairness, though, the GOP had it coming, for well-documented reasons that need not be repeated here. If you have to ask, you probably voted for McCain. Frankly, they should have lost by an even bigger margin.
Speaking of which (and here is where I start jabbering at the TV again, so you might as well skip to the next post), the next phase of the election will be the right-wing OMG freakout as they realize that America just elected al Qaeda’s Kenya bureau chief and that by this time next year they’ll be living in the Gay Muslim Socialist Mexican Republic Of Allah (GMSMRA), where gay marriage is mandatory (Arizona, Florida), Christianity is punishable by death, Spain is the official language and the tax rate is something like 98%.
I’m exaggerating. I hope. But you’ll notice that Obama’s “landslide” victory was a much closer race in the pop vote. Something like 46% of the country voted for McCain – that’s around 55 million people. And a good chunk of them by their own proud admission voted for McCain because they think Obama is Teh Terrorz. They will not go quietly.
Just you watch. You thought talk radio was paranoid back in the mid-90s when Clinton ran his secret cocaine-funded real estate scams while his fleet of black helicopters transported the bodies of people he had “silenced” to secret airfields where unregistered C-130 cargo planes collected them and air-dropped them into a mass grave somewhere in Indonesia? Ha ha, Jim. The Obama fantasies will make Hillbillary Clinton look like John Wayne. As far as they’re concerned, McCain is the President of Real America and they will serve him, not Osama bin Laden’s personal butler.
Meanwhile, Obama will have his work cut out for him trying to clean up Junior Bush’s mess. Those of you hoping he’ll make good on his “Change” plank will be disappointed. He is not the American Jesus you’ve been waiting for, the recession is inevitable and the troops will not be home any time soon. And at least one state that voted for him (Florida) also amended its constitution to make marriage for heterosexuals only in the interest of national security. California
Bipartisanship!
Yes. Homophobic fuckwits. Call that change? Cos I don’t.
On the other hand, Michigan, South Dakota, Colorado and Massachusetts approved medical marijuana initiatives (at least until Donald Wildmon personally sues every state govt and beats activist judges with Bibles until they declare the referendums unconstitutional).
Progress!
Well, no matter. Rome wasn’t burned in a day. It took us over 200 years to elect a black dude President. It’ll probably be another hundred before Americans can handle the idea of a gay president (let alone – OMG! – a gay black president!).
Either way, it’s good to have Obama at the helm. He’s not just the first Non-Old-White-Guy president – he’s a reincarnation of the Horatio Alger mythology that defined the American Dream for the first half of the 20th Century before it was beaten to death by Joe McCarthy and Vegas casino enforcers in the 1950s or thereabouts.
Or is that laying things on too thick?
Okay then, let's say he’s the first post-Boomer president whose political views don’t ultimately hinge on whether Vietnam was a good or bad idea. That’s a good thing. He’s more in tune with the modern world than McCain ever was. And if he doesn’t accomplish anything else in the next four years, he’s already accomplished one of the most important items on his checklist – convincing the world to see America as a country they can work with and look up to instead of a country to fear and despise.
Believe it or not,
This is dF
#####
EDITED TO ADD [11/6]: The votes are in. California (which said Yes We Can to Obama) said "No You Can't" to gay marriage. Res ipsa loquitur.
