The Alacrity of Hope

I am in love with this post over at PostBourgie. 

Finally, someone takes stock of the Obama fever that seems to be taking over the nation, and certainly my part of the woods, since Obama swept the Wamarva primaries yesterday.  I honestly don't have anything against the guy, and he seems competent enough, though what I expect him to be competent in, I'm not sure.  He's a pretty talker, and I always feel happy after watching that annoying "yes we can" video that's circulating (here's a link to a subtitled version).

My beef is more with the people singing his praises.  They kind of remind me of people ready to drink Kool-aid.  And not the kid-friendly kind.

Though I have to say I'd rather hang out with the kool-aid drinkers than those who say they won't tolerate Obama as president because he's Muslim.  Which is kinda dumb because 1) he's not, and 2) even if he were, who cares?  Can he be a good president?  Oh, there ya go.  Muuuch better question.

Comments

[Carrie]

And the scary thing about the whole thing is that those people who say he's Muslim are also voters.

Switzerland, here I come!

[Jt, waiting to be freed from the suicide slums]

I am intrigued by this post.

Many of these Obama supporters are actually your friends, and I sincerely believe that they reached their decision via what *they* feel are reasonable and valid means. Plus, you surely cannot deny how good they feel about it -- something I have yet to see in those supporting other candidates.

Perhaps that's not concrete enough for your book. Fine with me -- but I'm hoping that you think just a smidgen before publicly declaring that many of your friends and their stupidity have succumbed to the Messianic power of some spiked kool-aid. Perhaps that was just done in witty jest, but as you likely know, with politics you do indeed bleed profusely upon a mere prick.

I am reminded of what you posted on Election Day back in 2004. How you would vote, but not allow deriding to take a front seat. I think that was just around the time I stumbled across your blog for the first time and that post really, really hit it close to home (probably for different reasons, as I voted for Bush despite what others were saying). Hence my reason for following your postings ever since.

I am very well aware of Obama's "areas in need of improvement". Particularly his position on the Iraq war. Actually, voting for a liberal Democrat goes against every single atom of my molecular being... but dammit, he's *my* Superman.

[erin]

and since o'malley is md's gov'nor (I didn't vote for him) is a clinton supporter and a super delegate. according to an interview i saw him do on the news tuesday morning, even if majority voters in MD vote for obama, he probably won't vote for obama. Whatever happened to the majority rules.. apparently this isn't a democracy. bleh.

[QueenAlpo]

jt... ooh, touche! FWIW, I am also in love with your comment. My only response is to again echo G.D.'s response to a commenter on postbourgie and note simply that there's a decided note of emotionalism surrounding Obama's campaign. Whether that has anything to do with why you vote for him or don't is entirely up to you. But you're right, I should have made the distinction between people singing his praises based on a sparkly campaign and people supporting him based on other rationale.

And Erin... there's a democracy? Oooh, where? Where?!? I wanna see!