WELL DONE BARACK OBAMA!
I said I would "vote" for McCain, but what a result for the cards and my sixth sense!
I always hoped it would be Hillary but I kind of knew it would be Obama. After McCain was selected and Hillary didn't look good any more I decided I would "vote" Republican but, like when I went up the Twin Towers in 1998 and the only thing I felt was down, down, down, this year the word in my mind has been Barack, Barack, Barack.
Well done, Barack. Now you've got to walk the walk, after talking the talk. Difficult, because that Death card just won't go away, but with all the best will in the world, I do hope you do well, because I would hate people to be disappointed. Maybe governments should come with 90-day money back guarantees if not completely satisfied. It might have got rid of Tony Blair a lot sooner, given some electoral data I'm working on in the real world. Perhaps that sums up the basis of democracy for us - just look at Jimmy Carter. You can't force people to vote for you - just ask the Fabians. Part of the problem with the last two elections in America are that people couldn't accept that they had been fairly beaten, by the constitution if nothing else. I remember in 2000 enjoying giggling over "stupid Americans in Florida" over the hanging-chads issue. Then suddenly it was revealed that the disputed votes came from predominantly African-American areas. Suddenly it got extremely serious, as if it was no longer right to giggle at proceedings because it became a travesty of justice had been committed with racial motives. Perhaps this will lay people's minds to rest once and for all - the Republicans were not out to steal this one, they didn't suddenly cancel the election (like I heard said on forums a year or so ago) and they conceded defeat and are about to leave office.
As I said on my first post, democracy is a fact of life. Saying the electorate is stupid or insane just because they don't vote the way you do is symptomatic of both left and right and usually covers up a profoundly anti-democratic streak in all who claim that. I am not particularly happy at this result, I am a conservative and a Conservative who is even sceptical of her own leadership's ability to talk the talk, let alone walk the walk. But I am certainly not about to claim it was rigged, nor am I going through the results in Ohio looking for clues. If there are any issues out there they will come to light soon enough. But I think the Democrats now have reasons to put 2000 well behind them and move on.
Next Left has however revealed how idiotic the Tories have been on this one. More pressing readings loom, but had I time I would examine Louise Bagshawe's claims fully. It is good news for the Tories only so much as they can project themselves as the party of change. Since that change means keeping to Labour's spending plans - or maybe not - I don't know what their slogan will be...
"Yes we can't"?
I'll get the posters made up now, shall I, Cambo?
By the way, Barack is a raccoon-totem person, and thus shares some traits (though not all) with our Mr Foxy Cameron. Raccoons, however, are unlike foxes in that they are less for show and more intelligent where it matters - in terms of knowing what is going on rather than just living the high-life - so I still suspect Cameron will not get such a landslide next time, even though he was anxious at the launch of Americaintheworld to link himself to Obama, he still tried to have it both ways and publicly support McCain at conference this year, before it was obvious that Sarah Palin was not as hot as she would have been had she kept her mouth shut. Raccoons are also more down-to-earth than foxes, and although they are lightweight as politicians, they do actually tend to be better at listening to people and don't tend to take so many holidays on multi-millionaire's yachts.
I hope no-one here also thinks I am being racist. Obama may be a raccoon, but other prominent black politicians in this country and in the US have had similar totems to white politicians. Jesse Jackson is a beaver (same as Sarah Palin); Martin Luther-King was a buffalo, as are the Clintons and as was JFK. Spirits who reincarnate tend to take different nationalities and ethnicities over time; Owlperson informs me I was a German soldier last time round, who emigrated to the US after the war and died just before Nixon left office. He also tells me I am a natural conservative, having voted Republican at all elections that I was eligible to vote for.
Perhaps McCain should have chosen Condoleeza Rice (a bat spirit - as is Tony Benn) as his VP, as Owlperson says if he was still alive he would like to give her one. He is pleased that barred owl spirit Joe Biden is now VP-elect, given that he says owls make very good politicians (why else would they form parliaments in the wild?). Never mind, there is always 2012.
