I’m the King of Town!
The election of our new prez reminds me of this scene:
DOCTOR: […]So how has he managed all this? The Master was always sort of…hypnotic but this is on a massive scale.
MARTHA: I was gonna vote for him.
DOCTOR: Really?
MARTHA: Well, it was before I even met you. And I liked him.
JACK: Me too.
DOCTOR: Why do you say that? What was his policy? What did he stand for?
MARTHA: (dreamy) I dunno. He always sounded…good. (fingers start tapping) Like you could trust him. Just nice. He spoke about…I can’t really remember, but it was good. Just the sound of his voice.
DOCTOR: What’s that?
MARTHA: (startled) What?
DOCTOR: That! That tapping, that rhythm! What are you doing?
MARTHA: I dunno. It’s nothing. It’s j— I dunno!
(Via.) I’d link to a clip on Youtube if I could find one, but I don’t have the patience to go through all of them, and most of them seem to have been made into music videos anyway.
Well, I at least managed to resist the hypnotic lure of a pretty appearance and smooth voice, but as usual I’m in the minority. Most people in this country pick candidates the way they pick new boyfriends, and with about as much success. I expect the chorus of “He… he wasn’t like that when I first met him!” to start in, oh, say about a couple of weeks. I plan to stock up on popcorn.
Oh, and for God’s sake, my fellow righties, quit whining. I can’t even mouse over the links on my blogroll, the shrieking noise that comes out of my computer speakers is deafening. Here’s a breath of sense from Steven Den Beste. Remember, it’s leftists who whine that the world will not change to their whims, not us. (Via Slublog at Ace of Spades.) Here’s another person who feels pretty good, Steve H. He seems to think God is punishing us with Obama. I don’t know… God may just be doing some pre-punishing fucking with our heads. If you were God, wouldn’t you mess with your creation every now and then?
(Edited to add picture, because I felt like it. Later: edited to conserve the space-time continuum, which we all know now is a finite pie-shaped object just like wealth and everything else.)
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November 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Real whining is bad, nauseating etc. People of the non-Obama-sphere: don’t do it. The election wasn’t “stolen”. He won. Fin. But… it is kind of stupid to passionately catalogue his deficiencies for months and then sing Hail to the Chief five minutes after he’s elected. Some (not all) of the magnanimity today seemed a little phony. And some sounded just the right tone of patriotism and still simmering, still motivational contempt. ‘Show me a happy loser and I’ll show you a loser’ etc.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Yeah, I’m not going to jump in with the phony congrats. “We know he’ll be a good president” etc. We know no such thing. Heck, we don’t even know if McCain would have been a good president. For example, Jonah Goldberg’s column was just a bit too, you know — “Obama ran a brilliant race and he should be congratulated for it”? Um… let’s just say “brilliant” is not how I would describe it.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I figure sooner or later every generation just stops listening to its more experienced elders and insists on learning from its own mistakes. This is that time.
America has demanded the training wheels come off. Fantastic! Be careful. Have fun. You know where the band-aids are.
That last, incidentally, is also the name of my new, utterly non-political blog.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:23 am
No, I won’t say it was stolen. The lies and promises of candy, puppies and kittens probably convinced enough people to vote for him.
Not going to forget the voter registration antics of ACORN, nor the donation fraud, though.
Hmm… maybe I should start tapping my fingers in a certain pattern when folks start glassy-eyed praising of Obama.