Election 08: Some of the Immediate but Perhaps Less Obvious Benefits of an Obama Administration
** Bumped to the top ** slightly revised **
Some primal, pre-natal thoughts bouncing around in my skull today, on this, the first National Chocolate-Chip Cookies & Milk Day...
IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OF OBAMA WHITE HOUSE, in no particular order:
- Several of the more nakedly partisan major daily newspapers, suddenly and mysteriously deprived of "negative" news leads regarding the president and his administration, suffer from a dearth of "all the news that's fit to print" and circulations already in decline rapidly go into a death-spiral. Fans of real journalism are cheered.
- Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and the Cheney and Rove families, can go back to living normal lives and not seeing photoshopped pictures of themselves with devil-horns every time they log on to Teh Internets.
- Vice President Joe Biden takes Dan Quayle off the "court jester/local color" hook.
- Increased royalties paid out to original members of The Fifth Dimension and their heirs due to exponential surge in downloads and radio playing of "The Age of Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine."
- C. Sheehan ceases to be relevant, and disappears down the hall of the used-to-be-famous.
- G. W. Bush's approval ratings begin to go up, beginning in February '09.
- Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, given free reign of Congress, quickly demonstrate that it is them, after all, who are incompetent and uninspiring. After six more months of Congressional "deadlock," they are replaced by their own party with actual, breathing representatives. Congressional approval ratings thereafter begin a slow and steady uptick.
- The word "nuclear" comes back into vogue, displacing the persistent variant, "nuke-u-lar."
- It's hep to be "clean-cut, articulate" and establishment...
Feel free to add on in the comments!
it's funny you mention "age of aquarius" - that's the same song i chose to satire:
http://hatlessinhattiesburg.blogspot.com/2008/11/age-of-incompetence.html
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Indeed, Hatless! It has been playing for 2 straight days in my high school classes, because
(A) I have always admired, in a crooked way, it's cheesy New Age giddiness,
(B) It supplies an edge of irony for the "losers" of the election, and
(C) Quite a few of the "winners" take it as a serious anthem.
So it is, if not "all things to all people," at least "a lot of things to a lot of people."
I shall now make haste to read your linked post! ;o/
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