Consider this extremely infantile but incredibly pleasing.  It looks more and more like Obama is going to win on November 4th.  While I believe the fight is still on, I think we should all look to the future if Obama is going to win.  Namely, November 5th.

If you're like me, you've spent the past 8 years suffering the rhetoric of jackasses like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh.  They've had their man in the White House, they've had their special access, they had public opinion that they used as a mandate, and they used this to gloat and bully and act like a bunch of disgusting pigs.  I put myself back into the day after the election in 2004, when Hannity could barely contain himself on that miserable show.  How I fantasized about a day of reckoning.

So here's what I propose.  And yes, this is extremely childish, but remember what you've been put through.  I propose a day of trolling on November 5th should Obama win the election by a large enough margin to warrant big celebration.  I propose rubbing as much salt in the wounds of the Right Wing talking heads as possible.  Calling their radio shows, trolling their message boards, just having an all around gloat-fest at their expense.  Remind them that their day is done, and that their era is over.  Really think about these pieces of trash.  Men like Limbaugh were absolutely complicit in creating a rhetoric that got us into this mess.  Shouldn't they at least spend one day with the proverbial pie in their face?

It's like in those movies where you're subjected to 90 minutes of the villain getting to indulge in every naughty little impulse in his brain, only to have 30 seconds of comeuppance.  Let's make sure that this is a sting that really lingers.  Or, if you're not into movies and like sports, picture it like when a player gets ejected from the game and the chorus of "Hit the Road Jack" echoes from the rafters.

I suspect many will do what Nancy Grace does when things don't go her way and just not show up, but there will be others like Sean Hannity whose career as a political talk-show host hinges upon him being there after a major election.  So let's get our animated gifs, our jpegs, and our ducks in a row.  C'mon guys, it's spanking season.  What does this accomplish?  Psh, it's satisfying and that's enough.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gloating, the trolling and lulz.

I know that us Obama folks should just be giddy with excitement because, woo-hoo, Obama won another debate, but can we please call bullshit for what it is.  If this is what our debates have become, we're in some deep crap.  If you could even call this a debate, and certainly not a town hall.  This was an illusion of democracy.

I want you to imagine something, and just bare with me here.  If you read that a country like China had a debate where they went around casting people based upon their "average appearance" to read scripted cue cards that asked non-critical softball questions of their elected leaders, would you believe it was anything other than pure and utter bullshit?  Would you believe it was a debate or a farce?

I can't imagine a political legacy which has has raised as many questions as the past 8 years of George W. Bush, real fundamental questions about who we are, what we are, what we would like to be, and what ideals we still have in common.  The controversy surrounding issues like executive power, domestic spying, prisoners of war, when is war justified, our shared goals with questionable countries like Saudi Arabia (Port of Dubai, anyone?), not to mention the basic questions about issues like Supreme Court justices, abortion, gun control, stem cell research, gay rights, the right to imminent domain...there are more questions that have been raised in the past 8 years about the fundamental values of this country than at any time in our nation's history since the Civil War.  And not a single question raised over the past 8 years was asked tonight in any of those little cue cards.

Instead of a wide range of topics, we were given 90 minutes to trudge over the exact same talking points, the same questions, the same stump speeches, and the same pot shots that we saw two weeks ago.  And call me crazy, but I feel like we're spinning our wheels talking about change, hope, reform, and regulation when nobody even knows what the hell America is anymore.  There's a word for when leaders continue spinning rhetoric to drown out substantial criticism, it's called propaganda.

"Is Russia an evil empire?"  Brilliant question.  Please, let's finish up our discussions from the 1984 presidential debate and then maybe we can listen to Banarama and watch that new movie Teen Wolf.  And don't give me that "Shhhh... let's not rock the boat until Obama's in office" argument because it's indicative of the kind of weakness that put us here in the first place.  Obama is not magic.  Him winning this election doesn't make these questions vanish, nor does it pull a philosophical resolution from any hat.

I like Obama.  I believe that he has a capacity to connect to voters that is inspiring and it could be used for some great good.  But it's foolish to project onto any one person what you think their judgments might be based upon your assumptions and not their word.  And anybody who cares more about a single man winning an election than the answers to these basic fundamental questions deserves an administration as truly terrible as the one we're currently suffering.