Oh joy! It is finally post January 20th, 2009. Barack Obama has finally been that person we requested 4 years ago. That person we referred to as "Anyone but Bush."
Not that any one of our lives has really changed in the last three days, unless you have been vacationing in Gitmo. Outside of you, oh you rascally detainee, you, the rest of us really haven't had a change yet. Though, what am I saying, it'll take me till Friday to change my sheets if I have the idea on Monday; the idea of being able to single-handedly raise the economy in that time is an anathema.
Despite that, the air has changed. We can do things just like we did back in those good ol' blow jobbery Clinton years; for example, you can vote republican again. I'm not going to endorse it nor will I do it myself, but hey, it's not an immediate call to fascism like it has been. Immediate I said, you're still a fascist, whether you know it or not.
We can once again visit other countries and not immediately apologize!! Or pretend to be Canadian. I'm not even going to pretend I wasn't guilty of either of those.
We can join the military! Well, I'm still waiting around for boot camp, but really, there was no way I'd join under Bush. Despite the fucked up war, I didn't want to support his numbers and I liked to maintain my right to talk shit about *that* commander-in-chief. I'm cool with Obama being my supreme boss.
We can walk in Orange Mound in Memphis and hug a black person again.
Wait, we've never been able to do that. You'll still get shot, but at least it'll be a territory thing as opposed to "I hate you, whitey!" thing.
No... it'll still be that. Well, Orange Mound is the same, but again, at least Guantanemo Bay can be re-opened for a pleasant resort or a theme park, with the Waterboarding Rapids Log Flume and music shows with the Rendition Rockettes!
I smell capitalism pouring in that place even from here.
That's been this weeks message of love and optimism. Ja, wir koennen, indeed.
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