The Angry Drunk

I don’t think that I’m going to be able to write an in depth piece regard­ing the elec­tion; but I do want to get some of my thoughts down. To that end:

In all hon­esty, Barack Obama wasn’t my first choice dur­ing the pri­maries. The truth is, despite the cries of “most lib­eral Senator” (wait wasn’t that Kerry 4 years ago), and “social­ist,” Barack Obama isn’t lib­eral enough for me. Seriously, to me, “social­ist” is a good thing. Nonetheless, when it became appar­ent that the pri­mary race was down to Clinton and Obama I resolved to sup­port either of them in the gen­eral elec­tion. Not because I have any real loy­alty to the Democratic party, but because I hon­estly feel that the coun­try can not sur­vive another four, let alone eight years of the poli­cies cur­rently espoused by the Republican party.

That being said. In the end I became an Obama believer. I think that the moment that it crys­tal­ized in my mind was Obama’s accep­tance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Here was a can­di­date who was, for the first in a long time, preach­ing a mes­sage not of fear, but of hope. Now, it’s easy to

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