Posts Tagged ‘Mccain’

So we have a new President Elect in the form of Barack Obama. Some of you are elated, some of you deflated, and others of you think “meh”. I tend to fall into the latter(est) category for many reasons. First and foremost-DUH. Obviously Obama was going to win, and if you didn’t see that coming months ago you probably weren’t paying attention. While I think it’s fair to say that both top shelf candidates (it’s a little strange that our Top Shelf is so Bottom Rung, isn’t it?) were pretty mediocre, McCain was in most respects the most mediocre of the two, and the least charismatic by far. Moreover, the Republican Party has spent the last several years pretty much slapping the faces of their own constituents. Instead of following through on their “less government” rhetoric of years past they’ve inundated us with bigger, more intrusive, more expensive government.

Instead of following through on their words about “Liberty” they have instead catered to the religious nutjobs on the extreme right. And strictly from a PR standpoint they’ve put forward the most boring, uninspiring candidates imagineable. Whatever else you can say for or against Obama, the guy comes across as genuinely likeable. I’m not at all convinced that he truly believes his own rhetoric, but then, I haven’t seen a mainstream politician who convinced me he believed in his words since Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton (and while both of those had buckets of charisma, neither had what you might call brilliant presidencies).

What, though, is the real significance of this election? Well let me tell you what I think. After a lot of consideration I’ve come to the conclusion that the significance of a Barack Obama presidency is not in the politics of it, for he is by and large the same candidate as John McCain. The real significance is a cultural one, and it has more to do with the American people than with Obama himself.

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So if this thing is working right (Just testing), you should see an actual, honest to goodness PICTURE just to the left of these fancy shmancy words. If not, well, I don’t know what to tell you. In any case, I’ve decided that on occasion it might be fun to actually put a picture or two up here. I dabble a bit in various art programs (which allow me to fake some minor level of artistic skill) and so occasionally I produce something. Don’t worry, it’s not all that often, and none of it’s particularly good, but hey, maybe something somewhere will inspire you to think a little bit. Case in point: the image at left. Err, I mean above. Umm…included in this post. Yeah…that’s generic enough…