Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The System Works

As I've stated in the past, I'm not a very politically-minded individual, and even when I do get worked up about who and what's going on I generally try to keep it off the blog, for fear of alienating a portion of my 5 readers. However, after watching the election coverage last night, my feelings can be summed up with this quote from the hit television series South Park; "Wow, I haven't seen a beating like that since Rodney King!" (And no, the irony of that quote is not lost on me...) After the last few so-called elections I all but lost complete faith in humanity, fearing some other "technicality" would allow the empire to retain it's grip on the American people. But people had enough, there was to be no more. And that is Mr. Bush's legacy; not being the shiny beacon of light in a post-911 world, not being the man who brought justice to the powers that would seek to destroy us; no, his legacy is the ruination of the Republican Party and becoming almost as universally loathed and hated across the planet as the man he calls our enemy. The numbers say it all… a 2 to 1 lead in electoral votes? People lined up in Times Square? Cities in other countries having election day parties?? It was nothing short of a controlled revolution, and the people prevailed.
It actually felt good to be an American this morning; driving in to work I felt an enormous sense of pride in having had a hand in the change that is to come. As I looked in my rear-view mirror, I swore I saw a technicolor sunrise washing unnaturally vibrant colors over the eastern sky while "What a Wonderful World" played on the radio; looking ahead I swerved to miss a dozen or so little-people dancing in the roads singing "Ding Dong, the witch is dead..." Smiling, I looked off to my right and noticed the stark red neon lines outlining the topography softly change to a more comforting light blue. Off in the distance I could see a tall, slender building supporting a giant eye frantically searching around, then exploding in a violent fireball. With slight trepidation I glanced over to my left, and there they were: Jubilant Ewoks singing their "Yub Nub" song, watching X-Wing fighters soar overhead through a dazzling display of fireworks. It truly was a wonderful world.


(NOTE: The preceding was a dramatization and not a freaky drug-induced romp through cinema-land)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy cow, you read my mind. I was watching and even sang the "ding-dong the witch is dead song." Here's to a new day and new hopes!

rassmguy said...

Dude, John McCain totally should have won!

Think of how easily he handled those terrorists who took over the Nakatomi building, even though he was barefoot and running around on broken glass, and even though his wife was downstairs at the office Christmas party, very much in danger!

And then he did the same thing the following Christmas, but at an airport! And then he stopped the first terrorist's brother from blowing up a school and robbing a bank! And then he defeated that evil computer hacker!

John McCain is a real action hero, man! Yippee-kayay, mother-fucker! And he should be the next president, not that pathetic I've-never-fought-an-entire-pack-of-multinational-terrorist/thieves-using-only-a-single-machine-gun-and-a-fire-hose Obama!

Huh?

What?

That's John McClane?

Wait...so that's not John McCain?

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Really?

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Oh.

Um.........

Right.

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Go Obama.