Well I’ve been try my hand at quitting smoking again. My inspiration? Barack Obama. About a week ago I decided that if Barack won the election, I would quit smoking. Not like I was making a deal with the world, that if the world helped to get Barack in office, I would return the favor by quitting smoking. The idea behind it was simple. Obama quit smoking shortly before he began running for President. He made a sacrifice along with many others in order to get to where he is today. And in my support for Barack and as I’ve been inspired by him, I’ve decided to quit. Almost as a “thank you” to Obama for his sacrifices. I know it might sound lame, but that’s been my inspiration. And honestly it’s one of the greatest inspirations I’ve used in quitting smoking. I’ve tried for others in my life and I’ve tried for myself, but this time I’m quitting for an idea and a symbol (with a living person behind it). It’s been a lot easier to say no to my desires for smoking when I just think about the fact that I’m doing it for Obama and myself. Hope for the future. Again, I know it sounds pretty lame. But I’m closing in on day two. It’s been going well so far, and although I’m not guaranteeing it to last (I hope it does though) I feel pretty good about the choice to quit and how it’s gone so far.
Last night the nation made history as it elected Barack Obama as the 44th President. Unlike the past eight years, this election wasn’t even close. Obama won with 349 of the electoral college, leaving McCain with only 147. In terms of the popular vote, Obama had 62,816,357 (52.3%) to McCain’s 55,656,309 (46.4%). Which isn’t unbelievably close with only a six point spread, looking at popular vote, but a hell of a lot closer than any election I’ve been able to vote in.
In election news the House and the Senate are both held in majority by the democratic party. Senate seats are 56 (Dem) to 40 (GOP) and the house is 252 (Dem) to 173 (GOP). It’s wonderful to finally see this country saying enough is enough. We don’t like what’s going on here. We want a change and we want it now. I can’t wait until Barack gets inaugurated. We’ve still got Bush for two more months, which is honestly way, way, way too much time for that stupid f@&ker to be in office. But change is here. The people have spoken.
Unfortunately in Minnesota politics, it looks like we’ve got Norm Coleman’s crooked ass in office for another six years. I hate Norm Coleman. He represents everything wrong with the Republican party right now. A whole lot of doing nothing write in getting anything done, and doing a lot of work in getting in the way of people doing the right thing. And we’re “probably” going to get the s.o.b. for another six years! Minnesota voted 54%-44% Obama. and yet have a tie with Coleman/Franken. Why? Because Franken is a hot head and used to be on SNL. I’m honestly not a huge fan of Franken or anything, but I hate Coleman. So am I disappointed that a man named Barkley ran as a third party candidate taking up 15% of the vote? Yes, overall yes, I am. Why? Because 15% is nowhere near enough to take office, but it’s plenty to jack everything else up pretty damn well. Consider this, you could very safely say that a most people who voted for Barkley would have voted for Franken. Take a small majority of Barkley’s 15% and give it to Franken, and there’s the election. Is the system flawed? Is Barkley flawed? Are the voters flawed? I’d say a bit of everything. But regardless of who’s fault it is, I’m just pissed that we’ve got Coleman for another six years.
Enough ranting. OBAMA!!
Just finished voting. Super kick-ass-a-ma-tastic!
GO OBAMA!!
Looks like FOX “News” is at it again. They had Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton on to defend a statement accusing Fox of, “false, desperate attacks.” Now of course Fox replied with the “fact” that they are “fair and unbiased” while of course cutting off and talking over Bill Burton as much as humanly possible. The exchange is pretty entertaining, but also disturbing. Disturbing because it’s suck a blatant example of how unfair and biased Fox really is. How exactly is it fair and unbiased to constantly cut of your interviewee and attempt to make your own opinions known more than theirs? Especially when your point is that you are unbiased? What is more disturbing is the fact that people watch Fox News, they’ve seen this interview and plenty like it, and continue to view Fox News as “fair and unbiased”. Why? Because Fox News has told them they are fair and unbiased thousands of times over. If you hear something enough times, you start to believe it, I guess. But even with this excuse it disturbs me that people are so illogically equipped to overcome such a brain washing. It’s like if I told you a thousand times that I wasn’t going to slap you in the face, slapped you in the face, and then when asked if you were slapped you said, “He’s not going to slap me in the face.” Except that I’m constantly slapping and saying I won’t slap. Good thing stupid people can’t vote… wait a minute?