Change is coming
Today is a very important day in the history of the United States of America. Today, we usher an era of change into the White House. No longer will the highest stations of our great political system be ruled exclusively by representatives of our country’s demographic majorities. Today, we embrace a new ideology; we welcome a change to the political landscape, the likes of which have no precedent in our history as a nation.
Today, the nation decides between two tickets, Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. Today, the nation will introduce either a new color or a new set of genitals to the White House!
Oh, you’ve heard plenty of rhetoric over the past couple years about how candidate A will clean up U.S. politics and candidate B will restore global confidence in our great nation. Do any of you really believe in the esoteric change either ticket promises to bring? We have our heads stuck so far up our collective asses, whoever wins this election is going to spend the next four years cleaning feces off our faces. Forget about change. Forget about innovation in government. We’ve just spent the last eight years methodically destroying our economy, foreign relations, environment and our confidence in each other and the international community to worry about how the next president/VP is going to bring sweeping change to the office. The worst, most “unpatriotic” thing to do would be to pretend otherwise, and risk flushing ourselves even further down the crapper.
So really, the change you’re voting for here is either color or genitals.
Me? I’m voting for a color change. I have little confidence either candidate will have the mandate to do much more than tow us out of our political cesspool and hose us off a bit. But the candidate who brings a color change to the White House has somewhat more agreeable stances on things. I might care a bit more if he actually had the time and clout to do anything with his platform.
Wake me up in three years so I can root for Ron Paul again for a couple months. That was kind of fun and felt meaningful while it lasted.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
If I didn’t know you were from Ohio, I would swear your humour was British.
I can’t say either have convinced me they can turn things around, but in the US election you vote for the one who is going to screw up the least and right now, that’s Obama in my opinion. Actually, isn’t that how you vote in all elections, regardless of nation?
Jamie
November 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Regardless of who wins, America loses. Yay us!
It’s really this simple. You can’t campaign based on a promise for change in political ideology and then spend two years acting like a typical politician. It’s almost stupidly naive to believe change is imminent after observing these two candidates’ behavior for all this time.
If we get real change, great - I’ll take it! But I’ve set my expectations low…
November 5th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I gotta say, whoever wrote his victory speech deserves their weight in gold. That was the best speech I’ve ever seen, and even had me believing.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Thought you might like these behind the scenes photos of Obama’s campaign: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html
November 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Great reading material Paul.
Well, at least candidate’s A VP won’t be calling anyone a jerk during a TV interview.
On the other hand, I am also convinced nothing will actually change. It’s even not up to the candidates who run for the office.
Best wishes from Croatia!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Hey Dinko - it’s great to hear from you again, cousin!
I have to say, I’m a little bit encouraged by a few things I’ve seen thus far from the president-elect. It looks like he’s putting some of the groundwork into place to get his initiatives going. We’ll see - the election is over; all we can do is be optimistic.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Woot! Ron Paul is the man, and it’s a damn shame he can realistically never win an election.
I voted for Obama, because it was literally the lesser of two evils. McCain was seriously a George Bush clone, and his drone Sarah Palin really dragged the campaign down (God the Katie Couric interview was disastrous)!
I don’t even think I could vote Republican these days unless I was literally a millionaire and wanted the tax cuts. I can’t watch Fox news without cringing at literally everything Hannity or Beck says. The only way I’d vote for a Republican candidate in the current political climate is if it was Ron Paul on the ticket. The man is a true conservative in my opinion.
I’m a registered independent, generally moderate… I’d say I fall in with the Libertarian ideaology like Dr. Paul pretty well. But, I really wish the Republicans would get their act together, because right now Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and the other fanatics are making them look like a bunch of jackasses! If they don’t shape up, we’re in big trouble.
As far as Obama’s presidency is going, well I like alot of what he’s doing. I don’t like his Treasury department at all, and what’s up with not releasing FISA applicable information on George Bush’s shady stuff? Whatever, the country is still a heck of a lot better than off we’d be with McCain/Palin running the show.