SSC
I've been pretending I don't want Obama to win any more than McCain.
That's because the reason I want Obama to win is entirely emotional. Obama makes me feel good. McCain does not. And also, most of my friends are even more invested in Obama than I am. All of them on Facebook.
And I also remember how good I felt about Clinton. And I feel like I'm not allowed to admit that I liked him, because he signed COPA and DMCA and gun laws, and he got a blow job. And my urge to point out that the blow job perjury charge was the result of a years-long witch hunt where they were looking for genuine financial malfeasance, and that the Bush administration has been getting off scot-free for much bigger ethical problems, well, I'll just start a debate that I can't win. I've fallen for the right-wing media's trick, and become self-conscious of "liberal bias", which especially pains me because just a few years ago, I'd drank the libertarian kool-aid.
But I want Obama to win. I think it'll be a good time to be alive. It'll feel different for a day or two.
I also want him to not kill my buzz by being a bad president. And I also want the Republicans to not kill my buzz by starting another years-long witch hunt, in which broad allegations of fraud are raised, but in the end all we find is grainy video of him peeing behind a billboard on a deserted stretch of I-5, for which he's added to the sex offender registry.
And whoever wins would REALLY kill my buzz if they turned out to be bad presidents, but that's less likely than anything else I've mentioned so far.
That's because the reason I want Obama to win is entirely emotional. Obama makes me feel good. McCain does not. And also, most of my friends are even more invested in Obama than I am. All of them on Facebook.
And I also remember how good I felt about Clinton. And I feel like I'm not allowed to admit that I liked him, because he signed COPA and DMCA and gun laws, and he got a blow job. And my urge to point out that the blow job perjury charge was the result of a years-long witch hunt where they were looking for genuine financial malfeasance, and that the Bush administration has been getting off scot-free for much bigger ethical problems, well, I'll just start a debate that I can't win. I've fallen for the right-wing media's trick, and become self-conscious of "liberal bias", which especially pains me because just a few years ago, I'd drank the libertarian kool-aid.
But I want Obama to win. I think it'll be a good time to be alive. It'll feel different for a day or two.
I also want him to not kill my buzz by being a bad president. And I also want the Republicans to not kill my buzz by starting another years-long witch hunt, in which broad allegations of fraud are raised, but in the end all we find is grainy video of him peeing behind a billboard on a deserted stretch of I-5, for which he's added to the sex offender registry.
And whoever wins would REALLY kill my buzz if they turned out to be bad presidents, but that's less likely than anything else I've mentioned so far.