Hope Is a Good Thing

Is it just me or is this election dragging on and on and on to the finish line? This one, like no other I can recall, is wearing thin.

Perhaps it’s the anticipation of a real change.

There is a genuine sense of hopefulness that would endure with Barack in the White House. Perhaps it’s that everyone, including a lot of R’s, can hardly wait to run out into the streets and shriek to the sky, “It’s over! It’s over! It’s finally over.”

Deep down inside, D’s have to be bracing for yet another disappointment. Let’s get it over with and just win.

Been there, done that.

D’s have been disappointed before. Michael Moore penned a nice column a day before the 2004 election. Amazing how little things have changed, at least for the better.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-11-01

The only thing worse than the hopelessness that would accompany a McCain win is the sinking feeling that within months after an Obama victory, the whole shebang will fire up again. Mitt and Sarah and Huck will from exploratory committees for 2012.

Look. GW blew it. He got exactly what he wanted for the first 6 years (and, frankly, too much during the last two) of his reign.
And, where are we now? Hmmmmm.
Is there anything that isn’t broken, anything that actually works, sort of, kind of?

Foreign policy?
Military preparedness?
Financial institutions?
Economy?
Health care?
Energy?
Housing?
Education?
Civil rights?
Infrastructure?

Are we better off in any regard than we were eight years ago?

When the right says Obama is a communist and a socialist, what does that infer about the goodness of Bush. He’s a proven loser.

"Barack Obama is a Muslim terrorist," we’re warned. [Actually he’s a Protestant.]

But, George is the true terrorist.

Given his chance by the Supreme Court in 2000, he not only blew IT. He BLEW IT UP.

Our hopes, our country, our way of life, our future.

His economic policies, whatever they were, cannot even be labeled “trickle down,” because they didn’t even accomplish that. Instead, wealth was transferred in a unprecedented manner to the most wealthy amongst us. [Mind you, they don’t live by us. Certainly not. When they go home a steel gate clangs shut as they drive into their gated communities and the ocean tickles the sands on their own get-away islands.]

The richest nation in the history of the world is now the biggest debtor.

Americans, young and old alike, are fearful. They're worried, fatigued.

McCain is a shining example of Bush’s preferred crowd “have more’s.” He’s not certain how many homes he has. Many Americans are worried about how to keep just one.

Not many voters who supports McCain discuss their support openly. No one I’ve talked to who plans to vote for McCain has actually cited a reason to vote “for” John McCain, other than he is not George Bush. A ringing endorsement.

Shamed and departed are Rumsfeld, Tenet, Ashcroft, Scooter, Gonzales, Rove. Cheney will be joining them before long. Each flaunted the constitution and repeatedly broke the public trust.

Abramoff, Chalabi, and Haliburton were in it for the dough, the play, the kick-back, plain and simple.

George couldn’t always enunciate words and expressions correctly, but he and his minions gave clarity to ones to fear, e.g. water-boarding, presidential signing statements, healthy forests, clear skies, FISA, and FEMA emergency response

Guantonomo hasn’t been in the news so much since 1962 and the Bay of Pigs.

Along the way, did anyone keep track of how many times the apologists blamed failures of this bunch on Clinton? You know, Bill. The Clinton recession. The attack on the USS Cole. A budget balanced, yes, but by Newt Gingrich.

Many argued that we should get George. We tried in 2004 and failed.

Between election, we just couldn’t figure out the correct constitutional arguments. Perhaps we were simply too cerebral. Late last year, a car parked on Last Chance Gulch bore a bumper sticker: “Will someone please hurry up give Bush a blowjob so start the impeachment?”

Could it have been so simple?

Enough already.

It’s hard to imagine there are actually folks out there who fear giving the keys to the White House to Obama.

“All that we’re saying is give peace a chance.” John Lennon.

And, give hope a chance for a change.