I Didn't Forget the Election

I know the election news is all the buzz today. All the newspapers at school are gone. I didn't even get ONE PAPER! All the New York Times, all the USA Todays, all the Indianapolis Stars, everything is gone. These law students are newspaper piglets!!! There are ALWAYS loads of papers left, even at noon, but not today. Looks like my cheap ass will have to buy them, unless I can find them in another building.

So Barack Obama won yesterdays election by a landslide. According to CBSnews.com, Obama won an estimated 349 electoral votes to McCain's 160. This was no doubt an historical event. We were either going to have the oldest president ever, or we would make an even bigger splash in history by electing the first black president. I feel very blessed and proud to have been able to vote in such an exciting election.

I personally voted for Obama. Although I wasn't overly impressed with either candidate, I felt that Barack Obama was a much better choice than McCain because he is younger, not set in his ways making him open to change, and he's articulate. I don't particularly care for Joe Biden, but I do think he is better than Sarah Palin. For me, it's important for our President to not only be intelligent, but he or she must also sound intelligent. It is important to me for the President to be articulate. Palin reminds me of an ignorant hillbilly when she talks, as does McCain who also reminds me of a robot whose eyes are either stuck wide open or blinking a thousand times per minute. Annoying either way. I hate to be annoyed. I've been annoyed for eight years by George W. Bush, who encompasses everything I don't want in a President.

During the debates McCain didn't make sense to me. He constantly said he knew how to change things, how to fix them, but he never really said how he planned to do that. The how is important. Obama, on the otherhand, put his ideas on the table. He gave us something, which is much more than McCain's nothing. When you know what you're getting yourself into, it's easier to go for it than going into something blindly.

Ultimately, what it came down to for me is this morbid idea: McCain has one foot in the grave, so to speak. If he dies while in office, is Sarah Palin qualified to be President? Would I be comfortable with her as President? If Barack Obama is elected, he may be assassinated by ignorant white supremacists. If that were to happen, would I be confident in Joe Biden's ability to run this country?

Many of my "Christian" friends voted for McCain because they're afraid of Obama. They think he might be the Antichrist. WTF?! How "Christian" is that??? It's people like these who turn others away from the faith. Let's judge a perfectly good candidate and call him the Antichrist when we have no way of knowing this information. It makes no sense, it's ridiculous, and it's completely appalling!