Plaidophile

I am extremely stoked about Obama winning. I'd been waiting 8 long years for November 4, 2008, and the fact that he won so categorically and decisively, so fast, without any sort of outcry from his opposition (aside from Palin doing her completely-expected retardation where she blames the very media which was the only reason she even did as well as she did), that I have great hopes for this country.

Also, Obama's victory speech did a lot to soothe my anger. I still feel like it was very bittersweet, though.

There are three silver linings, though:

1. The vote was close. Gay rights have obviously made huge strides.
2. There are already several attempts to challenge Prop 8 in court, mostly attacking it from different angles.
3. There are, by some accounts, as many as 3 million uncounted absentee ballots, which could easily swing the final count in either direction. I know that most of my coworkers voted absentee and I know that all of them voted no on 8. For example.

I'm also glad that the old John McCain who I actually respected at one time made a reappearance for the concession speech. Too bad he let the pod person take over during the actual campaign. What respect I had for him is permanently gone, considering he was willing to be so flexible on his morals just to pander to his fanbase who are still so rabid that they couldn't even think about accepting defeat gracefully.

Did Gore or Kerry's concession speeches involve the audience booing at the mere mention of loss or the opponent? Hell, did Bush Sr.'s the second time around?

Politics has turned into such a weird state of affairs, where there's a few shining beacons of hope (Obama, Richardson) surrounded by hordes participating in some weird bizarro-universe American Idol (GWB, McCain, Palin, Nader, Clinton, Ron Paul, etc.). I'm glad that hope has finally won out, and maybe in the next four years this country will come to its collective senses once again.

Hopefully this is my last politics post for a while and I can go back to happily rambling about introverted nerdy things.