skippy the bush kangaroo: enough...

Thursday, June 05, 2008

enough...

so... barack obama is the presumptive democratic nominee. hillary clinton hasn't conceded defeat, but rumor has it she'll do just that on saturday. all right. she fought very hard, if not exactly very well -- if this is the way she wants to end the fight, so be it.

i'd be lying if i said i wasn't stunned by obama's achievement. in the past, i've called him a black man under the delusion that he could become president in a nation teeming with peckerwoods. that's only half correct -- america is teeming with peckerwoods, like it or not. but in reality, barack obama is the son of a white mother and a black father -- calling him black or african-american is, at best, unintentionally misleading, and those who would shy away from voting for him on that score is indefensible, especially if their political outlooks are mostly in line with obama's. if obama was 100% black/african-american, such a position would be damnable, not just indefensible -- should john mccain win the november election, everyone who voted for him because they were turned off by the color of obama's skin will deserve everything they get from a mccain administration patterned after the mad obsessions of melville's captain ahab.

but enough about that guy -- this is where me being stunned comes in. three months ago, if you had asked me who the dem nominee for president would be, i would have said hillary clinton -- and i voted for obama in my state's primary. i've been schooled by my own countrykind. seven months from now, we all just might be blogging about "president obama." i'm all but lost for words in the face of what is happening here. it's amazing. it's refreshing. and in a way, it's also liberating -- the bulk of americans are looking at the way things are and saying, "enough." it's really happening.

not to say an obama presidency will cure all that ails us -- chances are it would make little more than a big dent in that department. all the same, i'm humbled. the current administration has done whatever it could to utterly destroy the hopes, dreams, and better natures of those of us who failed to show it blind loyalty -- and the overwhelming response to this has been a clear-cut rejection of its legitimacy. a great disburdening. as if to say, no more fear-mongering. no more fake outrage manufacturing. no more toy journalism for ratings, no more clapping for credit. in short, no more. enough.

burned out from seven and a half years of awol administration fatigue or not, americans are asserting themselves. we're fed up, and we've had enough. let the republicans deny it, let their corporate media comrades spin it -- it was their wholesale lying and spinning that ultimately thrust them into their present tatterdemalion stuation, and if they want to cling to those methods for their own survival, hey, i say let 'em knock what's left of their black and rotted hearts out. last i checked, relying on the same failed tactics hoping for a different, better result was the dictionary definition of insanity...

Labels: america, election, life

posted by Jim Yeager at 5:00 AM |

1 Comments:

Yeah, it's amazing Obama has come this far. But from someone who grew up in the South, I'd suggest that we don't underestimate the power of racism in this country. I think there's still a pretty good chance for a McCain presidency, because, no matter what people say to the pollsters now, when it comes time to pull that lever in November, a lot of folks are going to have a hard time voting for a guy they perceive to be black. It's stupid, of course, but it's there.

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