I was on the phone with my father the other day talking about the upcoming election and he said, “Faustus, you’ve never been this fired up about politics before.”
I said, “That’s because I’ve never had hope about politics before.”
Ronald Reagan became the president of the United States when I was seven two; my entire adolescent and adult life has been spent watching my country sink lower and lower (with a plateau during the Clinton years). But now I’m excited.
Please, please, please, God. Please.
Two things:
1. joemygod. Am I really that much older than you?
2. If you want to fly in, Senator Obama is having a huge rally in Grant Park on the night of the election. You guys are more than welcome to stay with us. Have I mentioned that Senator Obama lives on the corner? Yup. Really.
Two things:
1. joemygod. Am I really that much older than you?
2. If you want to fly in, Senator Obama is having a huge rally in Grant Park on the night of the election. You guys are more than welcome to stay with us. Have I mentioned that Senator Obama lives on the corner? Yup. Really.
I have not felt this much hope since 1992.
we HAVE to take our country back, people!
OBAMA 08!
I hate to throw a wet blanket on things, but no matter how hopeful we are, Obama will still inherit the most troubled presidency since FDR. If the last century of ill-informed backlash by hyper-conservative idiots has taught us anything, it is that golden ages don’t last, and that, when laid bare to history, they’re also based on totalitarianism of a sort.
Furthermore, the level of Noblesse oblige necessary to spur Social Security into existance doesn’t seem to be present in America’s elite, today. Senator Obama will, though intelligent, be a relatively inexperienced executive in charge of a Ship of State with numerous hull breeches, and a party that is only just beginning to understand how it needs to act unilaterally to undo the last eight years of horrors. I wish him well, but he won’t look so good again until our children are done revising history.
I’m sorry, wait a tick…did you just pray? Hmmm.
I’m kind of with “initials,” though. While we MUST have Obama as our next president, he is inheriting a disaster. Still…let’s not think about that now. Let’s just get him in there.
Just like any good bottom, the key is to get him in first, the rest will follow in due course.
Lower and lowe or lower and lower? I am confused…
The 12 years of the Great Depression are a, well, depressing scenerio to coorelate with the current situation; however, the large crashes of 1987 and 1988 (I, like Faustus, was 10) were larger and were recovered from very quickly. I believe this economy has greater bounce-back potential than many people realize, and will be secondary to the rise of civil liberties and equality that Obama will bring. Too bad I’m no longer a hot 22 year old, where I would be in a better position to enjoy such liberties.
Aidan honey, you have to have tickets for the rally and if you don’t already have them, you’re fucked. And not in a good way. Wifey and I have been supporters since the beginning and we got an email to get on the short list, but we didn’t reply in time. Unless you were phone-banking with us back in March, forget it.
Joel, I too am shocked about the praying. I haven’t prayed since…. well since early in the first Clinton term.
Speaking of being old… my coworker is too young to remember that the 2000 election lasted 20-some days. Now how old do you feel?
Birdfarm: I have tickets. Not to worry. And I had an extra. (Did you hear people were offering sexual favors for being taken as a guest?) Alas, I gave my guest slot to the son of a friend.
I’ve been going around today humming “I’ve got a Golden Ticket”.