Ladies and gentelman, it is with much regret that I have to announce... I am losing my mind! This thing (the democratic primary) HAS to be over on March 5th or I may just have to commit myself. I, like many of you, have invested way too much in this primary battle to see all our hopes and dreams wash down the sewer. I can't take the anticipation! I can't take the speculation! But most of all I can't take listening to Hillary Rodham Clinton, her surrogates, or the trolls manning the message boards anymore!
Last's night SNL was just more icing on the cake. I know her stance on the issues is almost identical not only to Obama's, but to mine and to my families, but her lack of sincerity drives me crazy. If I have to see another version of Clinton's personality come out in the next few days I may just have to turn-off my TV, dislodge my ethernet cable, through away my iphone, and move into the forest because this shit is just so frustrating.
I can't stand the lying, manipulating, fear mongering, racially insensitave, bull shit that has been spewing out of her mouth, our of her husbands mouth, and out of her campaigns mouth for the last couple months. But to really top it off, its the trolls on the message boards backing up all these bullshit claims, ruining all the blogs that I used to patronize. I just want Tuesday night to be here, so that Obama can win and so that I can focus my thoughts and energy on something other then another New Hampshire happening. Let me reiterate that. I am not afraid of another New Hampshire happening because I know Obama will win, I just want Obama to win by a blowout. I want Obama to win by a blowout, so that all the superdelagates have no choice but to join the Obama bandwagon and get him to the magical number.
I won't revel in seeing Hillary lose, that's not what kind of contest this is, I am a poor sport. But I will revel in no longer having to listen to Howard Wolfson or Terry McAullife every time I turn on the fucking TV. I won't revel in that dark spot on Bill Clinton's legacy, but I will revel in not having to worry about a fellow Democratic spewing fear mongering crap all over the airwaves (Hillary that's the fucking republicans job!). No I won't gloat to Hillary supporters instead I will welcome them with open arms and hope that now that there horse is out of the race they can finnaly see what the rest of us see.
I'm on pins and needles waiting for the moment that we can turn our attention to the republicans. They are an easy target. They've been destructive over the last 8 years and in uniform almost cult-like accpetance of that destruction so it will not be hard to tie it to them. I'm on pins and needles waiting to finnaly have the final debate on the war on Iraq. After Tuesday the two people who will be left standing in the political boxing ring will be one of the war's largest supporters and one of the war's largest detractors. Now that will be a debate!
I'm excited for Tuesday to be over, so that we don't have to have a respected member of the Democratic party and our former leader spewing right-wing talking points to take down our nominee. They say that change doesn't come from speeches, well I am seeing a change and it's coming from speeches. The change is the people being brought into the political process. In 2004 people who follow politics thought it was all about the swift-boating or the flip-flopping, but on the streets, the people who didn't talk about it where all talking about how it was between two sides of the same coin. Two members of skulles and bones. Two empty suits. As the creators of South Park put it in one of the 2004 episodes, it was between a douche bag and a turd sandwhich. No more! People who had never cared about politics are coming up to me and asking about Obama. Many of my friends who now support Obama supported Bush back in the day. And it is because the politics of hope wins over the politics of fear. How do I say that when Bush won in 2004? Well because I was trying to persuade all my friends to vote against Bush by using fear (needless to say I was right about everything that would happen, but I was still using fear). Now will Barack's message of hope, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE FRIENDS, now says they will vote for Obama.
I just can't handle the anticipation. Obama isn't everything I've looked for in a politician my whole life, but he is a hell of a lot closer then anything I've ever seen before. A multi-cultural Kennedy, who has appeal no only to American's but to citizens around the world. Imagine a 8-year old Pakistani boy. For his whole life, all he has known America as is the imperial country who uses christian rhetotoric when illegally unilaterally invading country. All he knows is protests and pictures of Bush in devil garbb. He has never seen America as we truly are! A diverse country full of people from everywhere and every view and despite a few extremists, we are generally good people. He has never seen that. And then on November 5th, 2008, this 8 year old boy will wake up to a newspaper with a picture of a smiling multi-cultured colored man waving and a headline that reads "Barack Hussein Obama elected President of the United States".
No, I can not handle the anticipation. I just want to go to sleep and wake up on Tuesday night when we as Democratcs can once again be friends and unite under a man who if I believed in god, I would believe came from the heavens. This man who I believe will be us American's together again under one common purpose, to be the best we can be. I cannot handle it, can you?