Thankfully I am an American and am thus allowed to be an ass on occasion.
Please understand that I have never been a gloater. Never. My parents raised me well, with a respect for other peoples feelings. Gloating does not come easy to me.
But when you consider the sea of bullshit that we've had to wade through this past year, it seems only fair that a little bit of gloating be allowed. I have no wish to gloat over friends of mine who may be conservative. Most of my conservative friends fall under the 'small government/ socially liberal' heading. And that's fine.
I'm talking about gloating over the smug pundits and talking heads. The Rush Limbaughs, Karl Rove's, Sean Hannity's and Michelle Malkins. The gibbering assholes and self satisfied pricks who declared Obama simply could not win. The ones who just made shit up and went on endlessly about his lack of qualifications even while puting Sarah Palin up as VP with a straight face. The dicks who found deep connections between Obama and Willian Ayers while just skipping over the part where America gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons technology. The ones who screamed Obama was a Socialist and a secret muslim and was unfit to hold the office because he didn't wear a fucking flag pin.
They never stopped gushing about the great war hero who was in fact a shitty Naval Academy student, a drinker, a womanizer, a gambler and a piss poor pilot who after returning from Vietnam cheated on and then dumped his wife in exhange for a rodeo beauty queen heiress.
Then he went into politics and spent the past few years kissing the ass of George Bush and towing the party line. THIS was the Republican maverick (tm) who at 72 would with an idiot sidekick save our nation? The fact that he came anywhere near the number of votes he did is a testament to how stupid a lot of Americans are.
And yet the kid who grew up raised by a single working mother and his grandmother, overcame the stigma of mixed race, studied hard, advanced himself, went to Harvard on scholarships, led the Law Review and rather than going into private practice worked in the poor communities until running for the Senate. THIS guy was the goddamned anti-christ!
I've read some stories recently that indicate Palin might have been even dumber (or at least less prepared) than stated by the kool aid drinking advisers stated she was. If you read through the comments threads you will often see this:
"It's over now, why don't we just move on?"
No. We do not just fucking move on. That's the kind of stupid thinking that keeps us from learning from our mistakes. Sure we'd feel better just to not think about the past eight years of bullshit, but we wouldn't learn anything. Remember the saying "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Yeah. That's why I am all to happy to continue disecting the rotting corpse of the Bush administration.
And I suppose that's why I feel okay doing a little gloating. Not a lot. There's actually work to be done. But a little.
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Damn straight bro! You tell 'em! I agree with EVERYTHING you said. (I just have to say it quietly and in private places in Texas, or potentially face an ass-whipping). Can't wait to find the right BLUE, BLUE state and live there one day....as long as it's not too cold or rainy for my Goodman :-)
I too nervously watched the election with a large knot in my stomach. After 2000, when they stole the election, I knew better than to be hopeful. When they called Ohio for Obama, I kept waiting for a "Florida" moment where they would take it back. When they called the election, I really did cry a little. The 8 year nightmare was over! Surprisingly I have felt little need to gloat and be obnoxious though I feel we have the right. I am just so relieved. My boyfriend was so surprised by this he said he is going to buy me a present! Apparently the conservatives in my life expected me to be unbearable. I expected me to be unbearable but I'm just too happy!
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