TheRealDookie

Subpar blogging by The R.D........... not at all Notorious, but his waistline is getting kind of B.I.G.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

The Big O

"They depicted me the boss, of course....."

I still can’t believe it. I still can’t believe that this country is going to elect Barack Obama as President. I can’t believe we are going to elect a guy to the most important position in the world who is almost 50 years old and has not accomplished a single noteworthy political accomplishment in his entire life. I can’t believe we are going to elect a guy who has 7 years of experience as a state senator, two years as a junior senator from Illinois, and no executive experience whatsoever. That’s it. A guy whose wife likes to go on television and suggest she is ashamed to be an American. That is, until she has a shot at being the First Lady. Then she's proud for the first time ever. A guy who just a few months ago basically said people making over $96,000 a year are “rich” and deserved to have their taxes increased, but then ran to the center during the general election. A guy who campaigns on beating high gas prices, and who doesn’t want to do anything to increase the nation’s oil supply. A person who actually says that what this country needs is to tax people more and “redistribute wealth” to people who didn’t earn it. Then, when people point out that this is socialism, his supporters go on the air and accuse the people who point this out of being racist and using terms such as “socialism” as code for “black.” A guy who spends tens of millions of dollars advertising himself as a metaphor for meaningful “change” but who has few substantive, or even new, ideas. A guy whose supporters argue that the Republicans have no respect for certain parts of the community, but can’t go more than a couple of days without making the most base and stereotypical comments about people who live in small towns or own guns or attend church. But, hey, he’s young and cool, and sure writes a mean book.

Not to say that I’m high on McCain. He ran a campaign that didn’t really have a message besides a generic “maverick” theme, yet he failed to emphasize that he is, in fact, not George Bush, until the damn final debate. His economic policies are still pretty much undefined, except for some promise of more bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy, neither of which we can support in good conscience. I really think we can find some better candidates on both sides of the aisle.

The weirdest thing, to me, is that most of my friends who are huge Obama supporters are way better off than they were four years ago. They, like me, have gone from poor students to impressive degrees to great, high paying, and rewarding jobs under the current President. They have seen decreased tax rates and many of them have bought their own houses or made other major purchases. They have enjoyed freedom and safety. Supposed “hot button” issues which are a major part of the campaign do not affect them at all. I wonder, if they didn’t watch The View or MSNBC or read garbage forwards from their liberal friends, would they really notice that we are in a recession? Do they really believe that John Roberts and Samuel Alito and Sarah Palin have ruined the country? Do they not realize that it was both a Republican president along with a Democratic Congress that was in power when things started getting really bad?

This is not to say that there isn’t a recession or that there aren’t people out there who are a lot worse off then they were 4 years ago. But the people who are a lot worse off all seem to be upset with both candidates and disillusioned with the entire system rather than only Republicans. But these are not the really passionate people I see, nor do they display the same type of arrogance that I see from a lot of die hards.

Well, if we do have President Obama, which we are going to, maybe some good will come out of it. In fact, it’s time to be hopeful. In that regard, here’s my top 10 good things about an Obama presidency:

1. At least we will have a Catholic Vice President.
2. The first time, Obama said he wanted to raise taxes on anyone “rich”, which to him at the time meant people making over $96,000 in income regardless of where they lived or how much debt they had. The second time, Obama said he wanted to raise taxes on anyone “rich”, which to him at the time meant people making over $250,000 in income regardless of other factors (although Biden said $150,000 in a recent campaign misstep). Maybe third time’s the charm and he will actually come up with a sensible tax policy.
3. I finally get to go on the offensive against my liberal friends who have had eight years to play Monday Morning Quarterback and tee off from the cheap seats at Bush.
4. Maybe the new dictator in Iraq who takes power immediately after we pull out will be a nice guy.
5. Now that she is no longer campaigning, hopefully Sarah Palin’s outfits will get a little shorter and tighter.
6. We will finally have a chief executive who can pronounce the word “nuclear.”
7. The National Debt clock will get a few more decimal places. Now that’s a meaningful change.
8. Maybe an Obama win will move people toward the conclusion that it is time to start reducing affirmative action-type programs where they are not needed.
9. Hopefully we can rid the Supreme Court of bowties.
10. At least he’s not Hillary!!!!!