Okay, so this thing is literally just a few days away, and it is entirely possible that Romney could win. So dammit, I’m going to indulge in some shameless, pathetic nostalgia. Remember that moment four years ago? I have lived in this country for over twenty years, but had never experienced an election like the 2008 one before. What an amazing feeling that was. Our first African-American President. A man who promised to change the country. It really was a bit like having fantastic sex. I won’t say “like having sex for the first time”–since, let’s face it, the first time usually bites. The 2000 election was more like the first time–painful and messy, and with an unsatisfying ending.
Yes, before he was smeared by the crazies as the Kenyan love child of Hitler and Stalin…before our own progressive disappointments in him…before that goddamn first debate with Mitt…there was this.
Now go vote!
11/01/2012 at 7:36 pm
Have faith, my friend. Barack Obama will win. We can’t be that deluded as citizens. Oh, by the way, have you heard that Mike Huckabee says that if we vote for Prez Obama we’re going to Hell? Well, I think vote for the Prez and I’ll take my chances that my God is not the same God Huckabee worships. Cheers!
11/04/2012 at 1:21 pm
Gosh, I really hope you are right, Eleanor. There are plenty of people out there–including priests and pastors–telling their flocks that they will go to Hell if they vote Obama. I wish they focused on the real crime and injustice out there…I have a feeling God cares way more about that than our party affiliation!