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I will never hear that song the same again.
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Isn’t that cool? President Obama. Not President-Elect Obama, not Mr. Obama. Just President Obama. Our President. It actually happened. And look at that crowd. I mean, can the people back there even see the capitol? Not that I’m complaining, it’s awesome that this is such a big even because it is, but… wow. At a certain point things just get too big.
It’s going to be really weird to have a President that we actually respect (”we” meaning me, and my liberal family and friends) and who is like, a serious person who says things that are smart and articulate. (Although the Daily Show may never be the same again.) He’s the person to represent us to the rest of the world, not that guy – you know who I mean, the one who heard the rumors on the internets – yeah him. Well, that guy is gone. Let’s just hope that Obama is as awesome as Bush was not-some, so maybe by the end of his (fingers crossed) second term we’ll be in a similar state to how we were back in 2000.
So, we watched the inauguration ceremony at my school during lunch. They had streaming video in the cafeteria, computer lab and library. It was pretty awesome, except for the audio not being in sync with the video. People cheered and everything and I got to have a nice slice of pizza and Dr. Pepper while watching, which is really all I’d ever want for something like that. But I got to miss 10 minutes of History – in order to witness history…
What’s really awesome about this whole thing, is that – not only is Bush gone, but he’s being replaced by a Democrat – not only that, but a smart, articulate Democrat – not only that, but a smart, articulate, black (ok, mixed race) Democrat – which is huge just from a historical perspective – and not only that – this guy’s name is Barack Hussein Obama – his middle name is the name of a dictator we recently took down, and his last name, save for one letter, is the name of the most evilest terrorist who is our sworn enemy – and not only that – he beat Hillary Clinton – a women running for President in the primaries, and not only that – he actually won the election. Not to mention avoiding – that – ew – you know who I mean – no, not him, the other one who looks like Tina- yeah her. Eww. I had almost forgotten about that whole thing. Well, at least we got those SNL sketches out of it.
Oh, and about the glass – look how thick that is. Obviously bullet-proof. Very smart. It offers Obama great protection while still making him look cool.
Now, all we have to do is wait and see what happens. I know everyone’s really eager for results quick, but we should give him some time, let him get settled into the white house and all before he starts fixing the world. Honestly, I don’t expect to see the economy fixed and the war ended until next week at the earliest. Call me a pessimist, but he’s only human.
My dad sent me this:
George Bush
After numerous rounds of ‘We don’t even know if Osama bin Laden is still alive’, Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own hand writing to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:
370H-SSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, and then to MI6. Eventually they asked the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) for help. Within a minute the Mossad emailed the White House with this reply:
‘Tell the President he’s holding the note upside down.
2 weeks. That’s how long it’s been since I last posted. Yeah, uh, about that…
So posting on a blog, I think, comes in waves. You go through a couple of weeks where you’re super-crazy about posting and can barely constrain yourself from posting only one article per day. Then there are the times when you just don’t feel like posting, you’re just not that excited about it. Maybe you just need to recharge.
In regard to the wave analogy, maybe it’s like a sine and cosine wave. (Can you tell I’m learning about this at school?) So, the equation of my posting habits would look something like a cosine wave (starting with lots of posting.) I would probably look something like y=4cos(pi/2)x+3, with the x-axis representing the number of posts I would make per week. Sometimes it goes as high as 7 (4 is the max of the wave, plus a vertical shift of 3) or as low as -1, meaning I don’t post for at all for a week. Or maybe it’s for two weeks. I don’t know. And then the pi/2 means that this wave happens every four weeks.
The point is somehow it’s mathematical and I’m smart and I just did my math homework and I feel like I’m ready to start posting again. Maybe. Don’t hold your breath. I mean, this post doesn’t even count, it’s just me saying that I want to post more and making a “mathematical” equation out of it.
Hmmm… someone should figure out how many posts on personal blogs talk about that fact that the blog in question isn’t being updated very often. I think it would be interestingly high. But I will post again. Probably this weekend. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully on Monday. Definitely on/after election day. Speaking of which, can you believe we’re only 3 days away? Wow.
McCain/Palin ‘08!!!
Over the last few weeks I’ve begun to realize that this whole election process won’t go on forever. For most of the past year, we’ve seen the number of candidates get smaller and smaller until now we are only down to 2, and in only a few weeks only one will be left.
But the crazy thing is, with this whole election process, I kind of forgot that it’s going to end and someone new is going to be President. I mean, of course I knew that from the beginning. But the reality of it is coming closer and closer. Either Obama will be President, or McCain will be President. On one side, it would be so incredibly awesome if Obama wins, and on the other it would so incredibly suck if McCain wins. But, it will be an improvement over what we have now. Unless he dies. That would be the definition bad. But either way, someone is going to win. And that’s a huge thing.
This was originally an email I sent to friends and famliy:
I just donated $40 to the Obama campaign. It’s not much, but small donations like that are part of what has made his campaign unique and special. Regular people are funding his campaign, not huge corporations with special interests.
I decided to donate to Obama because I have become very passionate about politics over the last year or so and believe that he is the change that this country needs to start moving in the right direction again. I was encouraged to donate by my brother Warren, who has been sending the campaign regular monthly payments for a quite a while now. Since I can’t vote, this is the best way that I can help. With Obama as president, we can rebuild our image as the moral leader of the world. Obama will be able to reverse the disastrous mistakes made in the last 8 years.
I lost all respect for McCain after he chose Governor Palin as his running mate. It is an incredibly shallow choice which exposes McCain’s attempt to attract white woman who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Not only is the choice of Governor Palin purely political, she is also someone who believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught in schools – even while her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. She also doesn’t believe that women should have the right to an abortion, and doesn’t believe in evolution. She also has very little experience, with her foreign policy experience consisting of being next to Russia.
I believe that a good president is smart and surrounds himself with people who are educated about important issues, and who may sometimes have conflicting points of views on various issues. This worked very well with Kennedy and his advisors during the “ExComm” meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even though Obama does not have as much experience as McCain (although certainly more than Palin), I am confident that he will surround himself with smart people and be will have an open mind and make the right decisions on important issues. McCain, so far, has surrounded himself with Governor Palin and her family of 7 (Soon to be 8.) while Obama has chosen Joe Biden, someone who has over 30 years of political experience under his belt.
So, I support Obama not just because I don’t like McCain (specifically what the political process has turned him into.) I support him because he is educated, smart, and understands the lives of Americans in a way that McCain never will. How is one supposed to understand what Americans affected by the mortgage crisis are going through when they themselves have 8 houses? After all, shouldn’t our president know about some of the problems being faced by the people they govern?
Hey! It’s me, Austen! Remember me! Yeah… I know it’s been a while but I’m back now. You’re probably wondering, where have I been? The reason that I haven’t posted in 3 weeks is pretty much the same reason all the other times I’ve taken blogging hiatuses – School. But I had my last final yesterday and now I’m back.
Let’s take a look at what has happened since my last post:
- Barack Obama finally won the Democratic Primary! Like for real. Like… Hillary actually admitted that he won. So she’s gone….. we think.
- School.
- Is.
- Over.
- Firefox 3 was finally released!
- The new 3G iPhone was released – 2 times faster, half the price.
And… that’s all the content that I can think of for now. I’ll have a new post tomorrow. Probably. Hopefully. Most likely. I think.
