October 23, 2008

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.

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10 Responses to I was on the phone with my father the other day talking about

  1. Aidan says:

    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.

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  2. Aidan says:

    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.

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  3. anne marie in philly says:

    I have not felt this much hope since 1992.

    we HAVE to take our country back, people!

    OBAMA 08!

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  4. initials says:

    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.

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  5. Andy says:

    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.

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  6. David says:

    Just like any good bottom, the key is to get him in first, the rest will follow in due course.

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  7. NK says:

    Lower and lowe or lower and lower? I am confused…

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  8. Todd says:

    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.

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  9. birdfarm says:

    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?

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  10. Aidan says:

    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”.

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