Amelica Has a Huge Erection

[motis]

I'm having some seriously mixed feelings regarding the outcome of the election the other night, above and beyond the fact that I regard both Obama and McCain as corporate whores from political parties that have become nigh indistinguishable from each other. An awful lot of Kool-Aid was guzzled this election year by an awful lot of otherwise

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[pentomino]

The endorphine rush of getting rid of Bush will wear off soon.

I haven't seen Chris Rock on TV since Tuesday, but I imagine he'll recycle the joke he used when OJ was acquitted; "WE didn't win anything."

Indeed, all the weeping celebrities who cite the election as proof that the Presidency wasn't for white folks, could have reached the same conclusion when O won the nomination. After that, it's a matter of being the best of two. I don't know how much sense that makes, but it seems the one can lead to the other.

I think of Obama as being in my in-group, and Bush in my out-group, not because of party affiliation or color, neither of whichi we share, but because the Bush administration was like high school jocks running the country: muscle was everything, and don't you dare look at us funny. Obama isn't like that. Someone else used these terms to explain it better.

[majorzed]

Jocks, indeed. I like that. Frat boy jocks, swirlies, pig night. But I bet Dubya is damned glad it's over soon, and BO is thinking "Now, why did I want to be President again? Two years ago it seemed like a good idea."

Time a black person had a chance?

[notr]

I didn't hear that from anyone any more than I did when Jesse Jackson or Alan Keyes ran in the primaries. What I did hear (well, not myself, but quoted by their friends and relatives) was rednecks and guidos saying, "Can you believe I'm gonna vote for a nigger?" From what I can see, this really was about policy and ability, not any personal sympathy.

Meanwhile, what I kept hearing from history was "the Negro's Hour." It was 50 long years from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Amendment.

I'm saddened but not surprised by the gay rights failures. There's always been a tension between gay rights and other progressive causes, particularly women's rights. For all the social oppression, gay men are essentially an economically privileged class: paid as a man, but not expected to share a salary with a wife and kids.