Barack You Like A Hurricane

Well, that's that. Yes we can, and yes we did.

Tonight I watched the returns roll in with my TV newsanchor boyfriend, Brian Williams, before switching over to my TV fake-newsanchor boyfriend, Jon Stewart, for Indecision 2008. I won't bend your ear about this for too long, but there have been a few things I wanted to make note of.

Firstly, I'm disappointed in Georgia. I mean, duh, it's been a red state for years, but I've seen it tossed about this election season as a state that merely "leans" McCain, or even as a toss-up. I was looking forward to finally living in a blue state! Looking at a county by county map, every county I've ever lived in (Fulton, Clarke and Muscogee) went to Obama, so I suppose I can take comfort in that. And really, I can take comfort in the fact that so goes Georgia, so does NOT go the nation, in this case.

"There are two skinny guys from Illinois who made a difference-- Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama," offered Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree on Indecision. Those are some big shoes to fill. This feels a little like ranking UGA #1 in the pre-season polls, only I'd to think that the Obama administration probably plays a better football game than Georgia has been playing this season.

I'm looking forward to four, maybe even eight years of hope and change for the better. I'm not looking forward to the sour grapes I'm going to have to endure for the next few days or longer. I mean, to be fair, Obama is a cold-blooded capital-S Socialist who wants to steal your money, give it to lazy people, cook and eat babies for breakfast, et cetera, right? The straw man arguments I've been hearing from my parents, seeing on people's Facebooks and elsewhere are hard to stomach. The local NBC affiliate asked Saxby Chambliss (who only has to lose two more percentage points to require a run-off, as of this writing) what he thought about Obama's win, and he responded, "I hope he's not serious about raising taxes on all Americans like he's talking about." All Americans. Really, Saxby? The guy who's running on a platform of tax cuts for all households making less than $200,000 per year wants to raise the taxes of all Americans? There's no need for anyone to be spreading around falsehoods like that, let alone our elected (or maybe not? Here's hoping...) officials.

For better or for worse, at least we knew as soon as polls closed on the West coast. It looks more or less like a blow-out. Good on ya, voters. You'll see.