History

I'm not the type to get all misty eyed at things going on in the world, but the inaguration of Barack Obama has me aware of the "Holy Shit!" part of this event in History. A black man is going to be president. This is a huge change in the world. It shows that qualified, inspiring people can be elected to office. Kind of a shock after 8 years of Shrub, who, like a train on a single track, has run this country off the rails.

Obama has a hard job ahead. These problems will not go away on their own, and they won't go away quickly. But just putting him in the White House gives me and others Hope. "Yes We Can!" is a lot more inspiring than the politics of fear that we have been subjected to for 8 years. "If you aren't with us, you're against us." Well, Shrub, a lot of people are against us. But the damage you have done to the standing of America in the world may be fixed by a thinker in the White House. Going with your gut instinct might be a way to bungy jump, but not the way to run a country. And have some people with dissenting opinions advising you. Sinatra wasn't really that cool, but no one had the balls to say, "Frank, you are being a dickhead."

So I will watch the swearing in tomorrow with probably a billion or so other people across this globe, and be glad I voted for Hope. Not fear, and some airheaded governor from Alaska. Now if they could just pass a law forbidding her from ever running for a public office again that would be cool. Politics should be a serious business for serious people, and her 15 minutes are up. It needs people who think, and listen, and not rely on God to guide them in every decision.

God, Yaweh, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha... They are busy. Stop bugging them.