...well, that was interesting
Dinner tonight, dad asked me about what I thought about Obama. I squeed in a cautious kind of way about mostly it being hope, and he and I talked about presidents and america and also the way he speaks and delivers a speech (dad thinks of him as mostly resembling Sundanese rather than how he knew americans - he has a habit of attributing half my behaviour to being raised Sundanese - I was 0-5, Obama was 5-11. Words don't mean shit, actions do, personal responsibility, and some more stuff). Much Lyndon Baines Johnson, a bit of Nixon, mocking of whoever decided on Palin as a good running mate and then... um...
Dad let rip about how much he hated Bush for what he did to America, and what he's essentially been bottling up for the past 8 years. Seriously. Full-on rant and rage. And he'd never said anything before because he couldn't do anything. He hates the man (him and Cheney - seriously, dad admires Nixon for how good a politician he was - crooked as hell, but good at politics and achieved some stuff - but I think he would seriously dance on Bush's grave, and not spit on Cheney if he were on fire) partly for who he is, partly for what he's done, but mostly because of how he turned America from a place of hope that stuff could be done into this ... thing. Ending it with 'Why do you think we've not been back in the past 8 years?'
Oh, and he really likes Obama. Mostly for the hope, and the fact that he's already doing stuff on day one. Closing Guantanamo Bay, and just how important that is to the rest of the world, taking one step furhter from removing that stain. Also fully approves of having a ridiculously good-looking family in the White House. And said an interesting thing - that Obama wasn't a natural speaker in the way Clinton was, but the way he speaks in choppy stilted phrases mean you remember the damn speeches, and him and Favreau together have a real gift for evoking images.
Dad let rip about how much he hated Bush for what he did to America, and what he's essentially been bottling up for the past 8 years. Seriously. Full-on rant and rage. And he'd never said anything before because he couldn't do anything. He hates the man (him and Cheney - seriously, dad admires Nixon for how good a politician he was - crooked as hell, but good at politics and achieved some stuff - but I think he would seriously dance on Bush's grave, and not spit on Cheney if he were on fire) partly for who he is, partly for what he's done, but mostly because of how he turned America from a place of hope that stuff could be done into this ... thing. Ending it with 'Why do you think we've not been back in the past 8 years?'
Oh, and he really likes Obama. Mostly for the hope, and the fact that he's already doing stuff on day one. Closing Guantanamo Bay, and just how important that is to the rest of the world, taking one step furhter from removing that stain. Also fully approves of having a ridiculously good-looking family in the White House. And said an interesting thing - that Obama wasn't a natural speaker in the way Clinton was, but the way he speaks in choppy stilted phrases mean you remember the damn speeches, and him and Favreau together have a real gift for evoking images.