Archive for November 2008
This is the end
…of my political blogging career, this election season, and a third tedious thing to round it out.
As you could probably guess, I’m pretty excited right now. Not because “we won”, but because we made history.
Given how cynical I usually am, I’m surprising myself. America, fuck yeah and all that jazz. Just give me my moment. Give me a small measure of hope that the next couple years will be incrementally better than the last eight.
I am grateful that I had an opportunity to participate in tonight’s events. I voted Saturday, after waiting in line two hours. And given that the North Carolina vote is barely going to Obama (around 14,000 votes ahead with 99% reporting), I feel like my vote may have made a marginal difference. That’s a first. (Although, interestingly, Washington is the only county in western Arkansas to go blue.)
I will say this for John McCain: he gave a great speech. You could really tell how much it hurt him to have lost. And he showed the kind of integrity that made me believe in him eight years ago. If that John McCain had been around the past couple years, he probably would have had a better shot. He probably would have had my vote.
