Celebrate!
Celebrate!
Congratulations,
Mr. Obama, on your solid thrashing of whatever the
hell that was
running against you. I look forward to four more years
of peace and prosperity.
Darn you, Ohio, for totally ruining an otherwise suspenseful
evening with your thoughtful sensibility.
Thank you, Nate Silver, for telling the truth when
no one else would. You deserve a big raise.
Way to go, GOP, for campaigning in the wrong states.
You might try the ones that matter next time.
Much obliged, Karl Rove, for failing your party again.
Even I could get 200 electoral votes for the GOP simply
by running ads showing unicorns playing pinochle.
Tough luck, Sheldon Adelson and David & Charles
Koch. Even though you wasted .00000001% of your vast
fortunes on this
election I'm sure you can easily recoup the loss by
increasing the price of gruel in your company commissaries.
And, finally, thank you to The Fates for gifting me
with one heck of an excellent birthday present.
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Addendum: Although Mr. Obama's victory was due in no small part
to the peculiarities of the Electoral College it was
most impressive when compared to what he was up against:
(1) All the billionaire money in the world.
In 2008 Mr. Romney spent $45 million dollars of his own money on his campaign,
and that was just for the Republican primaries. This
time he spent $0 of his vast fortune. Thank you,
Supreme
Court, for
unleashing Citizens United and forever
putting our government into the hands of those who
would gladly sell us for the gold in our teeth.
(2) A media that is firmly in the hands of men who
oppose Mr. Obama. Specifically the Fox News network,
which should quit fooling around and officially rebrand
themselves as "The Propaganda Mouthpiece
of the GOP".
(3) A Congress that did absolutely nothing to help
the economy for the past two years and subsequently
blamed the President for their
indolence.
(4) The most ignorant electorate on the face of this
Earth. Fifty million otherwise well-intentioned people
watched the Republican candidate do a complete 180
on his principles
less than
two
months
before the election and thought nothing of it. A candidate
whose only real skill was extracting money from the
wallets
of
the
working
class.
(5) Good, old-fashioned racism.
If the Obama presidency was written as a work of fiction
ten years ago no one would have believed it. It is
truly a thing of mythic proportion.
A hearty salute to you, Mr. President. You are, indeed,
an elite.
Forward.
=Lefty=
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