Election Day

I've been feeling relatively cold to this entire election cycle, bitter about the last two and finding it easy to get really pissed off but impossible to be hopeful. Today there is a bit of change. I woke, and walked outside and thought, hey maybe for the first time in my adult life, I can be proud of the country I live in and not be thrown into fits of rage when conversation about the government come up.

Let's count out politics in my life since I can remember. I remember the end of Reagan with the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Wall. I also remember asking my parents what trickle down economics meant, and thinking, wow this doesn't make sense. The Bush 1. I don't remember his first run against Dukakus but against Clinton I got to go to the Republican National Convention. I was excited because Schwartzenager was there, and you know, I was just a wee lad at that point. I felt out of place the whole time. In my memory it was like being in church with more cheering and things making less sense. In my school ellection that year (2nd or 3rd grade) I voted Clinton. In a large suburban Houston elementry school I was one of three.

Then was 8 years of Clinton that started off with me knowing nothing, and ended with my knowledge of cigar use in sexual practice being greatly increased. Though I liked him better than the alternative, he screwed the country by screwing around. I believe Bush 2 was a direct result of Bill's penis going where it shouldn't have. I couldn't quite vote for Gore. After he "lost" I came into school and had friends calling me a pussy for complaining. Some of these friends are now liberal activists. Thank God times change.

Next came my first vote, I could get rid of Bush and worked my ass off. All I got was another dissapointment and a completely lifeless candidate.

All that said, this year, I am clearly skeptical. I won't and don't want to declare anything, but I will say this.

The air smelled hopeful this morning, like fall leaves, pumpkin pie, exhaust, and change.



Bob Fantastic