Obama

Now that Barack Hussein Obama has been elected president of the United States, there has been massive relief already for those of us who have been suffering from random access neurological tremors (RANTs) for the past eight years – except, of course, for some Republicans now skulking around back in their hollows with Rush Limbaugh.

In fact, you could say that a wave of ebullience is lifting an entire population, the entire nation. The whole world is buoyed, for that matter, in just about every country on every continent. In other words, the whole world was watching, and they liked what they saw, and on so many levels, too, not just race, but hope, opportunity, vision, intelligence, diplomacy, democracy, humanity. Forget “whatever.”

What a difference an election can make. From the affected simpleton to the eloquent globalist, rarely has the transfer of power and intellect been so stunning, and promising. And don’t you love his name, the irony of it.

[And all this against the poor scapegoat hoping to hang on long enough to concede. Is John McCain just a bobblehead, or what? If not, then he certainly comes off as a narcissistic pinhead, a sanctimonious pretender who manipulates most issues for the attention, not the intention, and whose irrelevant grandstanding last month — suspending his campaign to have his picture taken at the table of the economic meltdown — probably sideswiped the White House bailout meeting just for the self-righteous posturing and notoriety of it all. As they say in Hollywood, “Any attention is good attention.” In short, McCain is a dangerous weapon and should be disarmed before he goes off half-cocked. ]