Crazy Angels
November 5th, 2008 by Syd
It’s a rare moment when you get to see real history playing out across the pixels of your television screen. This night was one. The junior senator from Illinois has accomplished the impossible, and the nation has moved into a new era. There are some good things about this, many of them emotional and psychological. Finally, our fellow Americans with dark skin have received the affirmation they have needed for a very long time. There’s nothing wrong with that. In the long run, it may make life better and healthier in our communities. Perhaps a large segment of our young people will stop destroying themselves and begin to realize that there are good possibilities for their lives. It’s hard to feel bad about that.
The rest of the world will be shocked and forced to reassess their ideas about America. Our friends will marvel. Our enemies will be forced to pause and consider the frightening agility of our culture.
I can’t help but believe that the genius of America has shown itself again: we have done the unexpected. Our democracy has surprised us. Our crazy angels have carried the day.
I’m not wild about Obama. I wasn’t wild about McCain either. Obama has set the expectations very high, and if history is any measure, such messianic hopes as those inspired by Obama are doomed to disappointment. I remember the campaign of Bill Clinton and all of the lofty promises he made. I also remember how few of those promises were fulfilled. I notice that the pundits are already drawing comparisons between Clinton and Obama, and promising that Obama isn’t going to make the same "mistakes" that Clinton did. But, when you pin hopes as high as Obama has, disappointments are inevitable. How long before they set in, and a whole new generation of voters is cursed with the same cynicism that has infected us?
For this reason, I’m not totally petrified with fear of an Obama administration. There’s a huge gap between the hyperbolic rhetoric of a campaign and what gets done in the congress. I am certainly apprehensive about gun rights, but we survived Carter and Clinton, and I think we will survive Obama too.
I feel like I have a migraine coming on. This election thing has been going on for so long and I have been so focused on it, that my brain doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to turn itself off. Emptiness. I bought a new computer today. Tomorrow morning, I will drag myself out of bed and resume planning how I will migrate all of my software and files to a new box. I will be scanning the web for a sense of how things are going. I will do my work and all of the other ordinary things I did yesterday. Not much will be changed for me.
Damn Syd, you are a gifted writer. Please don’t burn yourself out again, I would miss your talents.
OK, write it down, on THIS date Fred told ya so….
We have not yet seen ANGER, wait until all the moonbats, welfare slugs, libbers and all around IDIOTS figure out that Obama can’t do even HALF of the bullshit he says he can do…
The ‘hood is gonna hurt worse than anywhere else, they don’t have a bit of *fall back* cash…
But I have plenty of extra ammo for when the bastards go wild because they realize that they were used, AGAIN, just like they have always been used by the Dems, and this time it was a BROTHER that screwed them over…
Revenge is sweet!!!
Very well put! The thing that worries me most about Obama as president is the activist, pro-abortion, anti-gun judges he will appoint.
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Very well said. Life goes on pretty much like yesterday.
Texas Fred hit the nail on the head. The “hoods in the hood” are wonderfully adept at burning their own buildings down. We’ll see what happens when the lofty promises aren’t delivered.
Evan, you are also dead on. The Supreme Court has way too much influence for a very long time depending on whom Obama appoints. They have forgotten their role in the original checks and balances system and seem to ‘impart their will’ rather than interpret and rule on matters of law. If the bench is occupied by ultra liberal justices, hold your shorts it’s going suck since they are going to IMPART their will on we peasants and forget their roles as fair and impartial judges.