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The ceremonial (but real!) first votes are in from the spooky midnight rites in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, and Barack Obama is officially winning the presidential election, 15 votes to 6. Also, this is a comical sentence: “Independent Ralph Nader was also on the ballot, but received no votes.” Curses! We had just bought $5k worth of “Nader” on Intrade. [AP]
It’s over!
This would be insane to corroborate, but I wonder if we could track the first baby born conceived during his acceptance speech.
Sorry Ralph, DN just isn’t a big hummus town.
Nader… Nader… is that the sissy furriner from That 70’s Show? What a pity no one takes him seriously; but he is a funny little thing.
“Obama defeated John McCain 15-6. Independent Ralph Nader was also on the ballot, but received no votes.
The first voter, following tradition established in 1948, was picked ahead of the midnight voting and the rest of the town’s 19 registered voters followed suit in Tuesday’s first minutes.
Town Clerk Rick Erwin says the northern New Hampshire town is proud of its tradition, but says the most important thing is that the turnout represents 100 percent vote.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but 15 + 6 = 21 votes. And the first voter plus the other 19 registered voters = 20 votes. WHO VOTED TWICE?!?! ZOMG ACORN HAS STRICKEN!!11!!!!
He also won Hart’s Location, NH, 17 to 10 (with 2 write-ins for the Ron Paul Revolution #9)!
Landslide!!!!!!!
Jesus Fuck, is this election STILL not done? Fuuuuuuuuuuck.
Yoohoo, Landslide!!!!!!!
If only Nader made decent hummus.
Dixville Notch? That sounds like a place filled with heathens.
joemalkavian: Recount!
I’m so jealous of them. Not that I didn’t vote two weeks ago.
It takes a village to raise a president.
Does anyone else feel like it’s Christmas Eve?
Someone’s McChestnuts are roasting on an open fire.
I love the smell of Republican desperation in the morning:
http://usera.ImageCave.com/destonio/Destonio_ObamaMorning.jpg
The half-hearted “Sorry, Ralph” was my favorite part.
You editors aren’t sleeping tonight are you? Tomorrow’s insomnia-fueled delirious prose is going to be so awesome. I cannot wait!
you guys have to see this pic of BO
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/03/photo-of-the-day-nov-4.aspx
Factoid: Dixville Notch hasn’t gone blue since 1968.
Dixville Notch, our own electoral Brigadoon, now disappears into the mist for four years.
What if the G.O.P. steals it again?
MOVE! http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid988092926?bctid=1842856410
As Dixville Notch goes, so goes the nation.
Anagrams for Dixville Notch:
Child XO — Vet Nil
Child Lox Vet In
X — Thin Cold Evil
Chill Vote Nix’d
meh
And Ron Paul stayed flat…
As goes Dixville Notch, so goes Flume Brook.
Well we all knew that Dix Notches were in the tank.
Paultards to the rescue elsewhere!
AP says of town No. 2 voting tonight:
“The town of Hart’s Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns’ ballots but got no votes.”
I want to be the absolute last person to endorse Obama. According to the Constitution, do I have to do it by midnight tonight Pacific time or just before the polls close in Hawaii on Tuesday?
Right now, Sarah Palin and John McCain are having a last minute rally for losers in Arizona because they know Barry has been gaining on them in both Arizona and Alaska. Palin’s been wearing jeans to rallies lately because she thinks we have the memories of fruit flies.
Who lives in a notch? Or for that matter a gap? Strange place names up north. I’m-a waitin’ to see how Bat Taint, Ohio votes.
When the Bitters wake up to this, gun sales Tuesday will go through the roof.
Bah. What a fraud. All the stories every election make Dixville Notch seem like some quaint New Hampshire hamlet with a town green, white church steeple, and a village blacksmith. No…it’s a freaking resort hotel. That’s the only thing there. All the voters are people who live in the hotel full time for some sick, ego-stroking, first-in-the-nation reason. You go in and ask where “Dixville Notch” is, and they ask if you want to see the “ballot room” as if that answers your question. It’s a big, empty room with lots of old photos of politicians who don’t matter anymore on the walls. They’re apparently proud of this and invite the press who usually only get to go to Punxatawny, PA for this story that appears at the end of the local newscast and now insomniac political blogs.
OpusOne: McCain should have held a town hall meeting here on his “Dead Man Walking” tour the other day.
OpusOne: Now I have to google it. Proud of yourself?
Yes, I’ve heard Obama is very big in Dixville.
Opus One, you are so idiotically wrong.
Dixville Notch is a real town. You went into the @#$% hotel. Goddamn stupid tourist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire
Aquannissiwamissoo: Damn you! You beat me to it! That’ll learn me to read the thing…
graceless: I’m here to help. Or to hurt. Fuck. I need a beer. I still have to vote !!!
HOORAY ITS OVER NOW CAN I HAVE A SANDWICH?
I thought Dick’sVille was in Wyoming.
Let’s remember that on a scale of 1 to Not Liking Black Folk Much, Dixville Notch and Harts Location are about 8.5 unless there’s been some brown infusion along the Appalachian Trail when nobody was looking, or was looking, since there’s nothing to do in Dixville Notch but watch moose fuck.
So I’d say this is a good Hopey indicator.
Your mileage may vary.
Luckily Their voter info wasn’t on the highway in Tampa, cause McDarkseid would file a lawsuit and want a RECOUNT.
I want the GOP (grumpy ol people) to hurt. I wanna see them hurting bad, deep and forever.
Oh for fuck sake. Jeebus fucking Christ. This means shit next to nothing. The headline should be assfucking or something. This. This? C’mon……
johnbpt: File a complaint with Consumer Protection.
Destonio: What if? Ask Scalia.
shortsshortsshorts: Ditto.
Dixville Notch is between Walmart Villa and Toonerville Junction.
Oh thank God. I thought I was going to have to wait in a line to pull a lever, or something. They’re long here in Pennsylvania.
Ken Layne: Ignorance is bliss. Or in your case, Ken, a Fulbright Scholarship. http://wonkette.com/404086/ralph-naders-hummus-sucks-too#comment-162548
Fucking ban me.
Those gluttons of privilege are going down!
S.Luggo: You really don’t know anything about New Hampshire, do you? Even with a @#$#$&* computer.
Paultard?
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire: 1st Notch on Obama’s belt, suckas!
Next up:
Pinkham Notch New Hampshire
Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania
Notch Peak, Utah
Great Notch, New Jersey
Barack Obama: Notchin’ it up!
Aquannissiwamissoo: North of Alberta, eh? BTW, does @#$#$&* stand for PC or Apple?
La-de-dah, la-de-dah.
Sarah Palin? Moar liek Sarah FAIL-in! You guys I just thought of that! Ha ha!
PoliTacky:
Nomorecod, Maine
Aricept, Florida
Chardonnay, Maryland
Youtalkintomee, New Jersey
PoliTacky: Notch O Jesus?
I don’t see what George Bush has done wrong, he’s destroying a bunch of people who shouldn’t be in the 1st place. I say the Iraqis are just here to take up space on this planet. They’re not doing anything to benifit us. George Bush is doing a great job where he is. I hope he sends a nuke to Iraq and just wipe that country out of the map. The only thing the Iraqis know how to do is terrorize countries, they’re all terrorists.Ok, I’m going to say it, I think George Bush is good. He’s one of the greatest president ever.. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! he attack Iraq and many Iraqis died.. so what? I hope he bombs Iraq again, I seriously don’t give a crap if the Iraqis die, I hope bush kills them all, bomb the hell out of Iraq. serioulsy I think the Iraqis are nothing but terrorist and George Bush is doing the world a favour by bombing them and killing them. they just like to bomb the hell out of each other, so the Americans attacking Iraq doesn’t really make that much of a difference, they’re just speeding up the process. So I solute George Bush
Typical mainstream media, not reporting Ron Paul’s stunning victory.
Who cares about Dixville Notch. What about Cocktown Gash? Or Johnsonberg Slot? Or Bonershaft Pussyhole?
(ok, I admit, I made that last one up)
Houston, we have a problem. So-called TrueChristian’s spellchecker is somehow on the fritz. Couldja nuke him for us? Thanks.
i called dixville notch something really funny to a friend in an AIM chat this morning but i can’t remember what it was now. something like dixieland trenchnads.
Hey, why no mention of the Redskins’ lost, therefore guaranteeing a new Caliphate in some Nostradaming sort of way.
Darehead: Is that a candy bar? Or am I thinking of Bit o’ Honey?
In elections to come, scholars and commentators will recall Ralph Nader’s ill conceived strategy of introducing recipes late in the campaign – They will refer to it as The Hummus Effect.
Captain Swing: Nobody who eats the hummus will ever get laid, so Naderites and their ilk will all die out. Wait, what thread are we on?
It’s 5:39 A.M.
I’m awake, sort of.
Time to shower, shave, and grab a cup of coffee. Then it’s off to Roger Sherman Elementary School to stand in line and cast my vote.
Yes we can, Wonketteers. Yes we can.
Catch you on the flipside.
Matt “Hack” Drudge just put up a link to a YouTube video that showed a ballot being put in a box at Dixville Notch. His headline was: MAC IS BACK!!! RACE CLOSE!!! MCCAIN ONLY NINE VOTES BACK!!! (One exclamation mark for each vote McCain needs to draw even.)
I’m highly self-medicated & yet still ready to jump out of my skin. I’m off to vote shortly, and then I ask that some kind stranger who sees me slumped over near my voting area check my neck for a pulse. Raging. Anxiety.
Yankee libertarianism is pretty strong in Northern New Hampshire. Seeing that they didn’t swallow all the bullshit about socialism and gun control is a very good sign. You can judge libertarians for being in the tank for Ron Paul, but they’re much more evolved than the fundies, accepting that evolution is real science, which, of course, it is.
loquaciousmusic: When this is over, can we have your other avatar back? Thank you. Please. I beg you.
kneejerk: I’m with you. Election anxiety is my life. I’m on the west coast, and I can’t sleep because I’m stressing out and need to watch the news to see what you people on the east coast are doing. Apparently, you’re voting. And it’s raining in Virginia which causes me more anxiety because I’m afraid people will stay home. But strangely enough, it’s also raining here in SoCal, which is strange. Won’t stop me from voting, but people here can barely drive in the rain so it could be a problem. But we’re blue so it should be fine.
Can somebody please call the suicide hotline for TrueCristian (and the dictionary hotline, too). This is going to be a rough day for him.
Also, just saw footage of Obama crying during his speech while talking about his Grandma yesterday. So, now I’m crying too. Why couldn’t grandma hold out for one more damned day, dammit!!!! Also, crying because I’m fucking tired, but I can’t sleep because I have to watch the news to find out if any more towns with 3 people in them have voted for Obama.
I want to smack Joe Scarborough who is busy trying to discourage young people from voting because Barack Obama is going to destroy their future. Lately, he just been lying. Apparently Chuckie Todd almost clocked him yesterday. Fortunately, I’m the only one up watching him right now. Maybe call the hotline for me too.
Dixville (uh..) Notch, NH
Population (er..) 21 (plus a few, maybe…)
SAAAAAAAAAALUUUUUTE!
This is retarded. The decision of some ridiculous burg in North Bumfuck, New Hampshire has no bearing on anything.
What’s IMPORTANT is that the Redskins lost, in an upset, which constitutionally trumps the so-called “voting” today and awards the Kingdom of Everything to Hopey.
Hail to the Redskins! Hail, um, defeat?
(Oops I meant ‘he’s’ just been lying, as in Joe Scarborough who keeps repeating that all of the pollsters are drunk on liberal Obama kool aid as opposed to actually conducting statistical analyses of the electorate.)
Whoa!!!! This is bad. The polls have only been open for half an hour, and CNN is already showing people lined up around the block in cities all over the eastern seaboard. I’m betting that they have to extend voting hours tonight. This day’s going to be a disaster at the polls. I truly fear violence. O.K. must try to sleep a little so I can regain coherence and be first in line.
the invisible woman: Meh. TrueCristian purports to be a “satirist” or a “parodist,” when in fact he/she is merely a lameist.
I just voted in Fairfax, VA. I was warned that socialism turns in to communism and communism is an abomination before the Lowrd. Naturally, I voted for the socialist because I like Hawaiian Punch.
The line was really really long. Only three electronic machines. Lots of creepy southern types.
Okay, so I was doing fine. I drove to the polling place, found a spot to park, and got in the “A-L” line. There was about a half an hour wait, so I bought a cup of coffee from the kids who had ingeniously set up a refreshment table by the front doors of the elementary school. The couple in front of me had a very happy baby. It was all good.
When I finally got to the front of the line, I gave my address and received my ballot. I walked over to the voting table, picked up my Sharpie, and filled in the bubbles—just like on the S.A.T. At that point, I was almost home free. I walked to the back of the gym, put my ballot into the scantron machine, returned my privacy folder, and accepted, with thanks, my sticker.
Then it was out the door and down the hallway. The line was long—very long, especially for Connecticut, which is not a swing state by any stretch of the imagination. There were the doors. If I could just get through the doors and to my car…
Suddenly, a fifty-year-old African American woman merged next to me. She had just voted, too, and she had an “Obama/Biden” button on her jacket. I held the door open for her as we went outside. It was 6:33 A.M.
As we walked in step down the sidewalk in front of the school, she turned to me. “Thank the Lord,” she said. “The sun’s coming up!”
I got into my car and wept.
Yes we can. And, yes, I did.
Lazy Media: I could give a shit about the Redskins winning or losing. Just give me my black Moses and the world will be fine.
He has come to end the rule of a tyrranous hegemon.
He has come to break the cycle of corrupt leadership and a culture of self-indulgence.
He has come to offer hope to the ordinary, the working masses.
That hegemon: The Los Angeles Lakers.
That man: Greg Motherfucking Oden.
(as soon as his ankle gets better, okay?)
loquaciousmusic:
The line was long—very long, especially for Connecticut, which is not a swing state by any stretch of the imagination.
OK, OK! I’m out the door, already!
5th person in my village to vote this morning. Voting felt so good. Walked outside and saw dawn breaking.
Seems appropriate.
Now, in this Notch you speak of, how is the voting conducted? Is there a table in teh front of the room with a mason jar with each candidate’s name in front of it and the Pepperidge Farm guy in straw hat calls each name to come to the front and drop a bean in the jar of his choice? “Ayup, Cyrus McHenry, c’omon down…” How quaint. So, polls have closed in Dixville Notch. Exit polling from ABC outside? What was the racial mix?
As to the day dawning bright in most of the country, that’s a good sign. Everyone needs to get off their computers, venture out of doors and cast their ballot no matter the length of the lines (there are these things called print newspapers that you can take with you to read in line at the polls). Come, let us join together at the polls and vote, finally, for change we can almost believe in. If you are so inclined, a stop at the religious institution of your choice to pray to GAWD or whomever you wish might be a nice idea. This is the day people. Scarborough is already declaring that long lines mean nothing because, “they didn’t for John Kerry.” Please help shut up this Florida redneck.
the invisible woman: Take two valium (after you vote) and call me in the morning.
loquaciousmusic: Okay, now you made me cry…are you happy now?
Lazy Media: I suspect TrueCristian is gender free (or gender ambivalent).
Five and a half years alan!
Walked to my local precinct around 6 this morning, only to find a line around the block. Wow. It moved quickly, but it was just so cool to see so many people jazzed to get out and vote right away. I’m in the Democratic sea of C-ville, VA, so those people were probably 80% Hopey (if not more so). Glad to have my civic duty done so early. Now I can spend all day at the office needling anyone without an “I voted” sticker.
loquaciousmusic: I’m waiting for my g/f to get ready so we can go vote. I put on Miles Davis’ “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” for some inspiration. I’m already on the verge of tears.
Well, that decides it. If ever a porn star I be, “Dixville Notch” will be my name.
BobLoblawLawBlog: Dick’s L’il Crotch?
Election day! I am awake at 7:40 for no apparent reason. I voted weeks ago. I don’t have to work. It is morning in America, and apparently I am going to see it. This is marginally disturbing. I don’t think I have gotten up this early voluntarily. Ever.
I had a 99% good experience. I got in an hour early and was in the first handful of people to go. Mr. Friday was out getting coffee and was about 200 people. I went in, voted, got my sticker, and headed out to join Mr. Friday for coffee in line. After he went in the building, I sat on a bench outside the doors. I got harrassed by polling nazis about whether I was really “waiting for my husband” or IF I WAS REALLY A POLITICAL OPERATIVE! Wow, I wanted to smack that little Tracy Flick bitch. I didn’t have any buttons, and pretty much just looked like a homeless person in my sweat pants and an old sorority shirt. Ugh. She stole my hope thunder.
Just voted here in Maryland. I got to the polling place around 6:10am with already about 30 or so folks in line. By the time the poll opened at 7am, I estimate maybe 400 to 500 in line. Got in and out in 20 minutes after the doors opened. Everything went smoothly. I’d say that clearly the line was made up primarily of minorities. Everyone smiling and excited. One more vote actually in the tank for Barry. Oh, and just prior to entering, I listened to Hendrix play “The Star Spangled Banner” on my iPod and then voted. Rock the vote!
Just voted in Brooklyn, NY. Got there at 6:15am and just got out now, 1 hour 45 minutes later.
The line outside was around the block, and then you had to wait on three separate lines once inside. It was incredible — my girlfriend who voted at this polling station in 2004 said back then it took only 20 minutes to vote.
Get out there now everyone, bring a good book, a smile, and some provisions
It’s gonna be a landslide
I’m always proud to be a New Yorker, but today, I’m proud to be an American, too.
hrhkingfriday:
You can feast on her tears of sorrow tonight (yeah, I’m guessing the polling Nazee was a Repub.)
So when do I get my welfare money and free Obama prayer beads?
ManchuCandidate: Yeah from the looks of it her clothes cost more than my car. I’ll keep that in mind
A handful of us were there when the doors opened at 6. I won’t call the mood euphoric, because here in Albany - bellyache capital of the world - no one quite knows what euphoria is. But it was darned upbeat. When we left ten minutes later, the line wound all the way through the parking lot.
Park Slope, Brooklyn - 300 people in line by 6:05. Half the people were photographing themselves and each other. But the line was moving incredibly fast, I was in and out in 20 minutes.
I’d be surprised if McCain gets 50 votes in this neighborhood.
Dixiville Notch- rub it in a circular manner, slow at first and then booyah! she’ll close her legs on your wrist like a bear trap
My 52 year old, painfully white Mother just threatened to riot if Obama loses. It warmed my heart.
Agh. MSNBC is reporting that Ayers just voted at Obama’s polling place. I am not going to survive this day without having a nervous breakdown.
I voted #60 in St Joseph Missouri took about 20 mins for the whole thing, on a side note i also got to vote NO on an proposal to lift the loss limits on casino boats. so that way some guy can just lose his mortgage payment and not his kids college fund. WIN!!
6 a.m. in the Boogie Down Bronx: we actually had one of those 866-OUR-VOTE people at my polling place. If there are enough poll-watchers that they can spare a couple for the Bronx then we are in better shape than I thought.
Rev. Juan MessyCan:
Good idea. I’m goin’ for it.
Hopefully Mrs. BMCFC is on board…
Reston, VA– pre-work voting taking about 25 minutes. Props to the Fairfax County Registrar for upping the number of poll workers. They should all take jobs at FEMA post election.
Long lines here in New Jersey as well… by that I mean thirty people waiting as opposed to it usually just being me walking straight into the booth.
In the parking lot of the voting place before the town cop left after opening. He started to give my wife grief over the license plate. “Is it real, you can’t put decorative plates on your car.” Yes Officer it is real, here is the registration, see, ‘Plate Number: OBAMA’.” “Well I don’t think you can park there that close to the polling location.” Called over the Mayor who was going in. He resolved it. But my wife asked the cop who he was voting for. McCain of course. “Obama always lies. He won’t salute the flag. He is against veterans.”
Always like a little bacon in the morning.
Coming in way late (slept in in prep for the long line I know I’ll be in…), just started on this thread: Ken, when did you start posting as TRUECHRISTIAN - has it been you all along…?
I live in a state with a Republican/Fascist Secretary of State and in a mostly black and hispanic voting precinct.
I’m so fucked.
I heard McCain won in Cockville Snatch
Aquannissiwamissoo: Nah if he was a Paultard he’d know about teh New Hampstire. NH is prime ‘tard territory what with the Live Free or Die and whole freestate.org thingy. My guess - he’s a PUMA. Fits the demographic better.
the invisible woman: I’m sure they were $500.00 designer jeans. All hockey moms can afford those, really!.
BTW, I’m in PA, I voted, and the poll workers had the lines out of wack.
I voted on the UWS of Manhattan (Charlie Rangel’s district!) and it was a shitshow when I got there, but then got better - long lines, only two machines. Some hellbent old people.
jodyleek: and loquaciousmusic - I cried when I voted too! This is worth crying over!!
PoliTacky: Hey, I’m pretty much from Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania. Well, not exactly because practically every street in this area is it’s own “town” (an old relic of very small coal mining communities), but I vote at the same fire station they do. It’s basically a main street with 3 churches, a cemetery, and tons of old white people.
Normally they’d probably vote for McCain, but the church services are now held by a funny Vietnamese immigrant who talks like Jackie Chan and they love him, so I think it’s opened up their horizons a bit.
TRUECRISTIAN: Good for you for sticking by your guns (the spelling of “salute”, for example). You’re a real maverick!
T-Bone: When I saw the name of your town I thought: Sugar Notch is a great porno name!
Re: The pastor, I’ll bet he mesmerized them with that Vietnamese iced coffee… that shit is goooood!
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Good luck to you both (if you choose to pursue). My sex-fiend sister (I wish I didn’t know this about her) and her new husband are all for it also. The hubster and I will try, but as we’re both males, it would be a true miracle… one I’m not sure Obie-Hopey couldn’t pull off, mind you.
As for your vote, just remember the righteous anger that fratboy-sore-loser-from-an-80s-movie of a Sack of State will have to confront from my homeboys and vatos if they feel purposefully disenfranchised.
I am 22 and I’d like to capture my thoughts before America either elects a president who its first 26 presidents could have legally owned, or brazenly subverts the very ideals it was founded upon by manipulating numbers in a final embarrassingly overt goosestep towards corporate totalitarianism.
I am nervous. And not night-before-the-swim-test nervous or even night-you-lose-your-virginity nervous, it’s a low rumbling primal panic which I can only liken to Star Wars panic. Disney panic. The edge-of-your-seat-terror that makes you wonder if Skywalker’s doomed after he refuses to join Darth Vader and drops down into the abyss, if the wicked octopus or grand vizier or steroid-pumping-village-misogynist is going to wed/kill/skin the dashing prince and then evil people in dark funny costumes are going to take over the world… if it wasn’t a movie of course.
And tonight it’s not. It’s not a movie and yet I feel like Obama might as well be wearing an American flag cape while a decaying McCain, in a high-tech robotic spider wheelchair wearing an eyepatch and stroking an evil cat, gives orders to a sexy scheming Palin who marches back and forth through their sub-terranian campaign lair in four inch thigh-highs and full-body black leather catsuit bossing around the evangelical ants with a loooooong whip… umm… is this just me?
Anyway, the point is that things feel weird folks. I have friends who have peed in waterbottles to keep from interrupting a Halo-playing marathon who got off their asses/couches to volunteer for the Obama campaign not once, but many times. Friends so cheap their body content is at least 1/3 Ramen Noodle who donated a good deal of their hard-earned cash to the campaign. People have registered to vote in record numbers, and yet, something just doesn’t feel right. I think we should stop congratulating ourselves for just voting. To vote is a privilege which people have died for, and I think there’s a whole lot more to be done for the country than to simply help win an election every 4 years.
Hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of man-hours spent on both sides by good-intentioned people who want to make a difference in an historic election, so many resources and voices and energies devoted to a single day. After tomorrow, half of that is going to have been a waste. And I can’t help but wonder what could have happened if all that muscle had been put towards something else, and what will happen to its momentum after the election has come and gone. Shouldn’t we be donating our money to good causes whenever we can? Helping people who don’t have? Dedicating some of our time to contribute to making the country which provides for us a better place? Of course a power shift is a hugely significant step on the path to great reform, but worrying about this election has been a wakeup call for me:
Even if Obama wins, we have not “won.” This isn’t a movie and we can’t toss every greedy lobbyist oil fatcat bigot down a reactor shaft. I think if we dedicate ourselves to the ongoing welfare of the country as much as we have to the outcome of this election, we’ll have a much better shot at coming closer to the overwhelming good the liberals hope Obama will usher in, but which no mere mortal could fully realize alone.
Which brings me to the other side. I’ve heard a lot of people claim that if McCain wins, they’re leaving. I heard the same thing about Bush’s reelection, and his unelection before that, and nobody seems to be leaving. And that’s fine. Because as much as I complain about certain political happenings, atrocities, etc., I really do like it here and I suspect most other people do too. We have New York and Hollywood, purple mountain’s majesty and sea to shining sea, we created jazz and country music and baseball and cars and lightbulbs and computers and that movie with hundreds of animated singing Chihuahuas! I mean who among the shivering Plymouth pilgrims ever imagined ordering hundreds of animated singing chihuahuas onto a magical box from an invisible information superweb?
The point being, if things don’t turn out the way I want tomorrow, I feel compelled, as a college-graduated adultish-type-person, to take a stand. And if I’m going to leave I’m going to leave. But if I’m going to stay I’m not going to sit around whining like I have for the past 8 years. It’s like when I don’t clean my room because it’s dirty and then I blame the dirt. So in my very indecisive way, before you and your screen, I’m declaring my intention to make some kind of stand in the event of -(Ican’tevensayit)-, and encouraging you to consider making one too…
Jump the ship or grab a bucket?
-Sigh-
Wasn’t everything so much easier back when the worst possible affront to your values was a PB&J sandwich cut diagonally with crust?
Anyways, I guess what I’m saying is that if we’re going to stay on board, we should probably be generous with our time and resources when times are tough even more than when the hero saves the day. Because what if he doesn’t? And what if he can’t? If we’re serious about real change, election day should only be the beginning of “Yes we can,” not the end.
Best,
Hannah Friedman
http://www.writinghannah.blogspot.com