excited
Well, we’re down to like 12 hours before the polls open, and it’s honestly like the night before Christmas. I’m getting kind of giddy with excitement.
Not that things can’t go wrong, Democrats have a long history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory [oops, got that backwards at first], but there seems to be a lot of reason for confidence, and there’s certainly a lot of reason for excitement. The mere possibility of an Obama victory is enough to fill even the most jaded political heart with a bit of song.
I’ve been listening to people debate the relative incompetence of the American people for the better part of eight years now, and I’m getting tired of defending them. I truly do not believe that Americans are, as a whole, stupid people. Shortsighted? Easily frightened? Generally disinterested in the nitty gritty of politics and world affairs? Sure. But when a case is presented to them, they will make a rational conclusion, and this is a case where I think that conclusion will be the right one.
Kerry made his case poorly in 2004. Al Gore won in 2000. We have a better candidate now than we did either time (Al Gore has since gotten better and Kerry, thank god, has virtually disappeared), and that candidate has run a remarkably tight, intelligent, positive campaign. Meanwhile, McCain has run a surprisingly incoherent and despicable campaign, so the wind is really at Obama’s back coming into the finish.
Very exciting times. It needs to end soon, though, ’cause it’s getting hard to work with my fingers crossed all the time.
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