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This day in history: Exactly one year ago today, Barack Hussein Obama II won the Iowa caucus, effectively ending the "march to coronation" Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was expecting. I was happy when Obama won, because I knew he would be damn near impossible to defeat. My mother, however, was a huge Clinton supporter and didn't seem to understand that her preferred candidate got spanked. I had to explain to her how the caucus system works and even then, she was like, "But when does Hillary go?," like the caucus was an amusement park ride. In fact, my mother is one of those nightmare middle-aged women who almost voted for McCain because she was so bitter. In the end, she voted for Obama but not without a considerable amount of bitching and moaning. I have to admit, I got a little misty-eyed when Obama gave his victory speech. I guess you could say he cast some sort of magical negro spell over me with his oratorical cadence and cavalier black guy style. And I can't believe it was only a year ago! It feels like a decade!
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I got all teary eyed when Obama gave his speech at the democratic convention. I just couldn’t help myself and I got teased hardcore for it. lol
from counterpunch:
"It’s certainly true that the minute the new Obama administration made any move, however tentative, deemed “anti-Israel” by the massed legions of the Israel lobby – stretching from vice president Biden’s office, through Obama’s own Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to about 98 per cent of the U.S. Congress, the major newspapers and TV networks, the think tanks in Washington, the big Democratic Party funders – political mayhem would break loose. The White House would see its prime political enterprise, the economic recovery program, immediately held hostage."
got him by the short hair
@ Alana: He has that effect on people. Here's hoping he has the same effect on Congress. :)
@ unokhan: Yeah, that's bullshit. I remember before Obama won, the nutbag Christian Zionists (including Joe The Lying Plumber) were shitting themselves over what an Obama presidency would mean for the future of Israel (re: its utter destruction because he's a secret Muslim). It's unfortunate that he now has to whore himself out to these same people just to prove he's not the anti-Christ. :I
I still like the idea of bulldozing the entire Middle East to make way for the world's largest Disney Land. Israel can survive if it agrees to be the information desk.
That's a good idea. We've already built McDonald's, KFCs, and Krispy Kremes in the Middle East, so it's about damn time we Disneyfy it. Middle Eastern folks would look much better in mouse ears than turbans and yarmulkes anyway.
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