After emerging victorious from one of the most pivotal elections in history, president-elect Barack Obama will assume the role of commander in chief on Jan. 20, shattering a racial barrier the United States is, at long last, shitty enough to overcome.
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
Trust me, you’ll want to read it to the end.
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The very end. That just about perfectly sums up my feelings about this election.
I was beginning to think that we were doomed forever down a path of political self destruction but maybe things will start to look up. That is, hoping that we aren’t all being fooled… again. As for the final sentience in that article… yup. *sighs*
I have always said that we were far more likely to elect a non-white man long before we would any woman (and I wouldn’t count on living long enough to see the woman even if I live to 106). Just look at in what order those folks got the vote. Sure enough…
But that said, I didn’t think I’d even see the non-white man win in my lifetime, so hey.
Thanks for the laugh – I needed it!
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