In this season of hope and optimism, I want to make a few things clear: I didn’t vote for Barack Obama only because I like the guy. I didn’t vote for him just because he offers the intelligence, judgment, calmness, leadership, and inner radiance that we’ve been missing for 8 years. I didn’t vote for him simply because of his promises or policies, or because I share his position on many different issues.
I also voted for him for another reason: payback.
After 8 years of kleptocracy brought to us by the White House, Wall Street and their shills in the corporate media, it’s time for payback.
To every Fundamentalist Christian leader, every wingnut newspaper columnist, every empty-headed talking moron on cable news, every opportuning Republican politician, every GOP foot soldier, follower of talk radio, and every Wall Street thief, I wish you the same 8 years of hell that you’ve just put us through.
I hope you spend the next eight years staring at the ceiling all night. I hope you spend the next eight years getting migranes, pulling out your hair, puking up your food and clawing at the walls over every single thing this new president does.
I hope every word he speaks creates a new wrinkle on your brow. I hope you reach for the Maalox every time Pelosi and Reid send a bill to his desk.
I hope you are forced to call every talk show and write angry screeds against his every action. I hope you have to put up a website with photos of Obama looking silly, or with a Hitler mustache. Good luck with that. Your guy was a laugh a day.
I hope your heart skips whenever President Obama pronounces ‘nuclear’ correctly.
I hope you have to make the sign of the cross every time he mentions God.
I hope you grind your teeth every time Obama’s FEMA successfully rescues people from a drowned city.
I hope you kick a curbstone every time the BLS reports another month of record job growth.
I hope you punch a wall every time plane and ships land at US ports and out walk thousands of troops from Iraq, who will never have to go back.
I hope you scream inside while the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is shuttered and dismantled.
I hope you pop a blood vessel every time he meets with another foreign leader to build a coalition against global terrorism.
I hope you develop a nervous tic every time his justice department actually charges, tries, convicts and sentences terrorist leaders.
I hope you hyperventilate every time somebody creates more ‘green jobs’ and people you know get them.
They say one shouldn’t wish ill on people, but W and his pals deserve far more punishment than they will ever receive. And if you voted for him, you are part of it as well. Of the half of the country that voted for W twice, some have already atoned. Go you.
But to all who voted for McCain, and especially the extreme 22% who still think W will be sanctified by wingnut historians, you deserve something in return for the past 8 years. You weren’t fooled by the media. You had the internet. You had people screaming at you from all sides with the truth.
Once the Inauguration is past, I’m done with the ulcers and migranes.
It’s your turn.