Wow…President Obama…woW

Well, we did it.  We’ve elected the first black President and I couldn’t be happier.  Not that I care that Obama is black, but I’m thrilled that it never even crossed my mind that he’s black; Obama stood strong on his merits and won the election because he deserved it.  Once again I am proud to be an American and am not embarrassed by our Commander in Chief.

If you look real close, you can see my little green 'X'

I guess I’m most impressed with his character, but it is incredible to me that he never played the race card.  With all these morons out there like Al Sharpton, along with every other minority group out there whose members CONSTANTLY remind you that they’re part of a minority group, it was refreshing to have a guy just offer his views and then let the words resonate until enough people heard them to create the movement that got him elected.

McCain’s concession speech was to be commended and it was welcoming that he shushed those losers who were booing Obama.  Sure I was upset back in 2000 when Bush was elected and I was downright pissed off in 2004, but in both cases I just accepted Bush as our President and I sucked it up for four years.  Now I get my revenge in the form of an excellent orator, a qualified politician (an oxymoron, yes?) and a man who is best qualified to right this country.  Sure it’ll be tough, but Obama’s our best hope.  And thank goodness Mrs. Palin didn’t speak; it only would have ruined the kindness exhibited by McCain.  In retrospect, had McCain acted like he did during his concession speech, he may have convinced more voters that he was, in fact, a human being.

Obama’s acceptance speech was awesome.  I don’t even know why, but I kept tearing up every now and then and I can only believe it was because his victory is just that bittersweet, when I think of how far we’ve come from our country’s stained history.  The absence of ‘whooping it up’ and ‘playing to the crowd’ by Obama was noticeable and was very indicative that Obama’s for real and winning this election is only a door being opened; the real work starts in a couple months.  I’ll say it again: I hope no one tries to assassinate him.

Well, this election was historical and the country is, finally, ready for some positive changes.  Quite possibly in my lifetime I’ll also get to see the first woman President (my daughter?) and I’m sure there are many other ‘firsts’ that will come along that will be welcome changes in this greatest of countries.  My secret wish is for a candidate whose last name is “President” to become President, so everyone has to call him “President President”.  That would be totally sick sick.

It’s been a while, but I’m glad to be proud of our leader; that hasn’t happened in quite a few years.

Huh, huh, eRection day… huh, huh

OK, America, please don’t let me down today.

Well, it all comes down to this…  Do we have faith in our antiquated voting booths?  What about our poll workers?  Are they competent?  Will we find some “misplaced” ballot boxes in the East River?  I don’t know what shocking news the day will bring, but hopefully we’ll have enough of a margin to determine who will be our next President.  Then Sarah Palin can pursue her place on the national stage and, upon failing to find a spot, can take that offer from Playboy that’s sure to come.  Oh, McCain can go back to the dumbest state in the nation.

And, if Obama wins, I sincerely hope no one takes him out.  That would be such a tragedy in terms of his own life and family, but what a loss to the country.  What a throwback to an earlier, darker time in this country’s past when we (apparently) could only see the “color of one’s skin, but not the content of their character.”  It makes me sick to my stomach just thinking there are people out there wishing for this to happen.

In other election news, why the hell can’t the board of elections (or whoever creates the ballots) write the “public questions” in clear, plain English?  Read this (158 words in ONE undecipherable sentence):

Do you approve the proposed amendment to the State Constitution which provides that, after this amendment becomes part of the Constitution, a law enacted thereafter that authorizes State debt created through the sale of bonds by any autonomous public corporate entity, established either as an instrumentality of the State or otherwise exercising public and essential governmental functions, such as an independent State authority, which debt or liability has a pledge of an annual appropriation as the ways and means to pay the interest of such debt or liability as it falls due and pay and discharge the principal of such debt, will be subject to voter approval, unless the payment of the debt is made subject to appropriations of an independent non-State source of revenue paid by third persons for the use of the object or work bonded for, or are from a source of State revenue otherwise required to be appropriated pursuant to another provision of the Constitution?

My proposal is to have EVERY ballot reviewed by eighth graders; if they can’t understand it, then neither can much of the voting public.  Jeez.  There should also be a limit on the amount of prepositional phrases used in a sentence AND a word limit on sentences.  UGH.

At least San Franciscans get to vote on renaming
a sewage plant after George W. Bush (LINK HERE)
(Thanks, KC, for the heads up).