Uh, Keith?

Keith Olbermann: you sir are perhaps the only person on the planet that disliked Bush more than I, yet I have to admit I'm stunned that you're still concluding Countdown every night by remarking on how many days it's been since "Mission Accomplished". I would humbly suggest you now start counting down the 16 months Obama has to fulfill his promise to withdraw from Iraq.

Clinton Confirmed as Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton has been confirmed to the position of Secretary of State by a Senate vote of 94-2. The Senate apparently really really liked the idea of getting rid of her.

What is the theme of this blog?

Someone asked me yesterday what the point of this blog is, what the theme is. Honestly, for now, it's whatever comes to mind until I find my voice, and I think the themes will reveal themselves.

Some will surprise me.

Some will not, because I know every once in a while I'll probably post an entry about your mom.

Changes I Can Believe In

So, Obama takes the Presidency tomorrow. The press is burying themselves in the racial history, and the demise of the Republican party. Those things are great, but everyone's talking about them, so I won't belabor those points further.

What I'm interested in are not one, but three changes that occur tomorrow.

First, a Senator assumes the White House. The last to do so was JFK. I won't say that governors and those from the executive branch make bad president's, but under the circumstances, a senator might do us well. Obama will have insight when dealing with Congress from the fact that he's been there, it might prevent some of the branch-branch fights we've seen in the past. It also means he's been in town and knows the people working with him. He doesn't need time to get used to Joe Biden, or get to know Hillary Clinton.

Second, someone who has grown up in urban settings is taking the Oval Office. You have to go back nearly a century in Presidential history to find a commander-in-chief with a city background. Obama's smallest place of residence was Honolulu, at 300,000 people. Other cities have included Jakarta, Chicago and New York. Given how the majority of Americans live in cities of 50,000+, we now have a leader who understands our lives and settings.

Third, and perhaps most important, Barack Obama is not a baby boomer. I don't know what to call his generation. I don't even know if he's of my generation. I don't care. I just know he doesn't seem to carry the me me me spend money attitude of the 80's. That attitude got adopted by Washington and the nation as a whole as we used anything we could for credit and spent money we didn't have as much as we could. And thanks to Medicare and Social Security, Boomers will finance their retirement and health care at the expense of the younger generations.

Barack Obama has made some money for himself, but he's not filthy stinking rich off of oil money. He, like Clinton, might just actually care what kind of world he leaves his offspring.

The History That Might Happen on Tuesday

In two days time, Barack Obama is scheduled to assume the office of the Presidency. I hope it happens.

I say that with utmost sincerity, as I'd like him to become President. He wasn't my first choice, or even my second...but in the end, I not only decided to vote for him but gave to his campaign my time and energy, and even a few dollars.

And should he assume the office, as planned, on Tuesday around noon, history will be made. Yes, he'll be the first African-American President in United States history. But another piece of history will be made, an unforseen happening that no one is talking about.

George Bush will do something he's never proven truly capable of before-he'll actually adhere to and respect the Constitution, the laws of this land.

Our nymphomaniac president cares nothing for anything other than sex. He's enjoyed fucking the American people, and Mr. President, as a man, I must salute your conquests sir. You have fucked us hard, all of us. Repeatedly.

I need not list all your conquests, do I sir? The world knows their names. Harriet Myers. Katrina. Rita. Mission Accomplished.

You never did pull out of Iraq, but on Tuesday, it would appear you'll finally pull out of America's ass. You'll leave us with a sticky situation, and one that really hurts. It'll be sometime before we can differentiate our blood from our shit, but at least we'll be hole again.

Don't ask if it was good for us too.

This Means War!

I was channel surfing the other night and wasted a precious few seconds of my life on Headline News. Nancy Grace's show was on, and one of the million pieces of text floating around the screen was the subject line "War On Women". The talking heads were yapping about some news anchor lady that had been murdered in her neighborhood.

I don't know who this person was, and I'm sorry she's no longer with us, but seriously, a War On Women? Is there really a war on women in the United States of America? A woman had a serious shot at becoming the President. A women currently holds the title of Speaker of the House, two women have been Secretaries of State.

I'm not saying that women don't have disadvantages compared to men. The glass ceiling is all too real, even if cracking. But as serious as gender inequality is, is it a war?

We have a lot of wars in America it seems. A war on terror. A war on drugs. War on the middle class. It was thought that WWI was the war to end all wars.

Except that a war against war is still war.
What does it accomplish to be against things? Why not be for something?
Instead of a war on terror, how about supporting stability and security?
Instead of a war on drugs, why not pursue sobriety and health?
Instead of a war on war, pursue peace, or at least cease-fires and armistices?
And instead of rambling about a war on women, remember that men get murdered too.

And the men that don't get murdered don't live as long as the women that don't get murdered.