O-BA-MAH!!! O-BA–Ya, you can pretty much see where that’s going I guess. The real thing to be happy about on this historic occasion that no one is honest enough to point out is that the biggest achievement about Obama’s election as president is that he exists in the first place as an option. Cuz, hi. Newsflash to literally everyone: we [Am’ricans. not just whytes] would have voted you into high office decades ago if you just gave us the chance. You didn’t. The Obama victory is not a time to be happy because we’re finally less racist now, its a time to be happy because our racial minorities are finally improving their lives on their own a tad more and slowly – oh so painfully slowly – allowing the racist remnants of times and events long past to STILL keep them down today.
Also: everyone who was expecting President Obama to suddenly fix your crappy life with his magic touch powered by unfiltered HopenChange ore? Boy are YOU in for the surprise ending of a disappointment times a million. Do yourself a ha-uuuge favor and go ahead and be prepared for nothing to change in your life unless you change it. You voted in “change” on taxes (to go up) and court justices (for them to ignore the Constitution). Not your life. The problem with Obama’s excitement generation (ya, I checked. there’s only one) is that he “inspired” so many people…to… vote for him. Not to actually DO anything. Just to get excited about… his campaign. Not “Change” – just “a politician with a different tone” (*as in esthetic, not skin tone). Erm: that ain’t enough fellas.
As far as danger in store for the new administration – that’s a made up thing to scare people. People fretting “oh no, what if people try to kill the President” as if the previous one wasn’t the most hated and reviled in recent memory.
I don’t mean to be all dumpy about it though. It’s nice to see people happy about something regarding politics for the first time in over a decade. That’s definitely nice. It’s just also a bummer when you know they’re getting excited about nothing because nothing is going to get better.
I’ll definitely come back to this post if 4 years from now, race relations are better, government is less corrupt, we actually stop bombing so many random countries, Guantanamo Bay not only gets closed but an exact replica isn’t opened up that does the same thing for us in some other location, and all that other junk this incoming administration promised.
Until then: enjoy the happiness about “Change” while you can, because I’m predicting none of those things are going to change at all.
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