I’m pretty sure everyone’s going to be talking about Tuesday night for a while. The first African American president. Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey not even trying to fight back tears. John McCain making his best speech in years. He may have bought into the tactics of George Bush and his goons when they were proven effective in robbing him of the Republican nomination the first time around, but he was at least a very gracious loser. Hats off to you tonight, Senator McCain.
For some strange reason, I’m feverishly anticipating whatever Sarah Palin is going to say in regards to her defeat. We know it will be something stupid – and we’re now free to laugh about it without that heavy feeling of doom, as she will not be anywhere near the nuclear launch codes for at least another four years. By then it will be 2012, and if you believe the Mayans or Terence McKenna‘s wonderfully comical, acid and I Ching fueled “novelty theory” predictions, the last thing we’ll be worried about is Larry Flynt’s new Alaskan muse.
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