November 6, 2008

• It worked in Blazing Saddles

  Okay, I suppose it's time I wrote my thoughts about our new president-elect. Honestly, though, what else is left to be said? If I hear the phrase "historic victory" one more time, I'm going to kill something (for writing it myself, I went out and killed several bacteria). I voted for him, so hopefully he'll do okay. I think that I will list some of the pessimistic givens that will come out of this presidency.

  1. There is very little a president can do to "fix" the economy. Just look at the Bush administration. Sure, they may be a sorry lot, but do you really think they've just been sitting around? I'll bet they're doing everything they can to leave some kind of legacy at the very end. It's going to be up to the economy to fix the economy. My best advice would be to do things only to look busy, and then let things eventually work themselves out. I remember hearing some of my classmates talking about the economy and saying that a lot of the candidates' plans (from both sides) didn't adhere to common sense. If I have learned one thing in this world it's that anything much bigger or much smaller than you rarely complies with common sense.
  2. He will not unite the country. There, I said it. There will always be people who throw around "liberal" like it's a dirty word. No one can change that. It may be "change we need," but it simply is not happening.
  3. This is speculation, but I'm rather sure that Obama will have to pull an HW Bush and raise taxes on us. This may be the application of common sense (see 1), but I can't see any other way to refill our coffers. I'm prepared for it. Well, in the sense that at the end of the year I won't have a job to tax. Sigh... this economy sucks.
  4. It'll turn out he's the antichrist and bring about the Apocalypse. It's been obvious for a while now. Frankly I'll be glad to be rid of all the fundamentalists after the Rapture. Though, to be fair, so few people will disappear that we probably won't notice.
  5. Then there's the thought police...

  

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