Geez, some things make you throw up a little in your mouth, and then the same things can make you laugh so hard you cry.
This saccharin post by Amanda is a great example.
The Obama campaign became this yelp of hope and love from this country, and even hardened cynics like me got swept up into it. After all these years, we found we had it in us to believe again. The right accuses of us of making Obama some kind of messiah, but that’s not how it’s really experienced. We aggressively believe he’s just one man. We know that we are the real story, the everyday Americans who reached past the cynical destruction of the Bush era into ourselves and found that we do, we really believe that humanity can be better than this. We can transcend racism and sexism and homophobia and all our other petty bigotries. It may not happen in our lifetimes, but we can strive. We can be better. I hope the history books note this, but the brilliance of the Obama campaign was not that they dictated this feeling of movement, but they spotted it and rode the wave. “Yes we can,” became a slogan not because it was demanded on high, but because people responded to it, and the campaign responded to the people. It didn’t feel canned to say it. It felt real, because in a sense, we invented it, not them. On the night of Obama’s election, I went to a party and people did spontaneously chant, “Yes we can! Yes we can!”, and frankly, through all my cynicism, it felt real. They weren’t say that Obama could. After a point, it wasn’t about him. We can. We do believe in this country, and this election proves it.
It's no wonder Amanda sold 4 copies of her book (3 to her mother and cats, 1 to Jesse Taylor). That writing is absolutely Teh Suck. Read the whole thing if you choose, but have a barf bag next to you when you do.
I always wonder about people who are so utterly wrapped up in their ideas and opinions that they honestly think it's the most important thing on earth. Your guy lost in 2000 and 2004. Get over it. The U.S. didn't fall apart and most of us are still doing pretty well. Your guy won this time and while he's gonna suck, I'm not gonna sit around in my jammies using up boxes of Kleenex over it. There's a lot more to life that that crap.
I've been watching the reaction of liberals to Obama's win and inauguration, and one of the strangest parts of it is that they aren't just happy their guy is president. They're happy that conservatives are unhappy and they want conservatives to hate everything Obama does. I say that takes a pretty twisted person to make that the standard for their behavior.
The funniest part of all of it is watching the Pandagonistas doggedly not cover Democrat scandal after Democrat scandal. Not Timothy Geithner's tax evasion (or Caroline Kennedy's, for that matter). Not Bill Richardson's ethics problems. Not the hold-up of HIllary Clinton's confirmation. We heard and read numerous times about how terrible Mark Foley was for sending texts to pages, but you can't find a word from these guys about the Democrat governor who had sex with a teen.
These numbnuts are going to spend the next two years trying to convince their sycophants that all is well now that the evil Republicans are no longer in charge. And then they'll be back to sitting around in their jammies and sulking when they lose in two years.
For God's sake, Amanda. You're a 30-something-year-old woman. It's time you grew up and behaved like an adult, not like a besotted teenager.
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