Shaping Up to Be a Long 4 Years
Let's cut it out now. I enthusiastically supported Barack Obama, I voted for him, I shed tears when CNN announced at 10:00 p.m.CST on Nov. 4 that he had won. I even ran the NYC Marathon two days before the election wearing an Obama t-shirt, an experience that I will never ever forget.
But seriously, I don't care where the Obama children go to school, or where the family attends religious services. Not in a negative way, but in a "it's not my business" kind of way.
While the inane media coverage is obviously nothing new, I'm finding it even more infuriating when the silliness is focused on my guy.
Come'on Barack, help me out! Announce a firm pull out date from Iraq!
But seriously, I don't care where the Obama children go to school, or where the family attends religious services. Not in a negative way, but in a "it's not my business" kind of way.
While the inane media coverage is obviously nothing new, I'm finding it even more infuriating when the silliness is focused on my guy.
Come'on Barack, help me out! Announce a firm pull out date from Iraq!
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Dude's not President, yet. Patience, my friend.
Now, that said...I have to agree. The News just makes me laugh. They spent all of their steam and fury bad mouthing the guy all summer. And now, they're fawning all over him. Doing their damnedest to make him and his family into Royal Celebrities.
Ah, well...it's what they do. Money-making machines, they are.
Solution: turn that shit off.
November 11, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent advice. Time to catch up on my reading.
November 11, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree it will be a long four years, but not necessarily for the reasons you state. Your last sentence, where you demand a pull out date, is why this will be a long four years. I have never, in the five prez elections I have voted in, seen such a litany of demands, from the minute it was over, by supporters of the victor. Everyone has something to say. Everyone has an opinion. People are bitching about who he meets with on economic policy, who he doesn't meet with, what is written on his website and what isn't, what he eats for breakfast and what he doesn't. Let's slow the fuck down! Give him a chance!
November 11, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with your general point that it's awfully early to get too excited about the minutiae. My last sentence, however, was intended as more of a plea for an antidote to the media insanity than a demand for action.
Pres-elect Obama presently has no authority to make that kind of an announcement and I don't expect that the announcement will come on inauguration day or anytime very soon after.
That said, ending the Iraq War is more than just an item among a litany of demands, don't you agree?
In the seven presidential elections I have voted in (sorry, gotcha beat)I don't remember the results engendering such a level of enfranchisement, hope or expectations. We now have some skin in the game and expect our voices to be heard. That is what makes a democracy work.
November 11, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink