Current Events: November 2008 Archives

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He won.

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President Of The United States.

I'm currently at an election gathering in Brooklyn celebrating.

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Playing In The Background...
"Brand New Day" feat. Yolanda Adams
by Karen Clark Sheard
from the album "Second Chance"
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Pictures:
- A graphic artist's lovely rendering or Barack Obama
- A picture of my local polling place across the street from my home in Harlem, taken from out my window. As you can see, already at 6:42am that the line is stretching down the block. Thank God for a decent zoom lens.
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I was awakened early this morning with this these song lyrics running through my head.

"Revolution in the head don't count for nothing
You gotta, you gotta move that ass
Revolution in the head don't count for nothing
You gotta, you gotta beat the past
Revolution in the head don't count for nothing boy
You gotta move the mask
Revolution in the head don't count for nothing
You gotta, You gotta move that ass..."
- Girls Aloud
from the song "Revolution In The Head"

Yes ladies and gentlemen, the revolution doesn't mean anything if it only lives in your head. For eight years we have complained about how much our economy and our government has been failing, totally sucking for anyone who isnt a war mongering oil baron. Now is the time that we do something about it.

It's 6:13 am on this lovely US Election Day, November the 4th year of our Lord, 2008. I look out my window from my home here in Harlem at my local polling place across the street and I see that the line is already way way down the block and the sun hasn't even come up yet. Being able to actually see such a beautiful sight stirs up such wonderful feelings inside of me. Can't you just smell revolution in the air?

If you have braved the long lines and stood out in the cold to vote for Barack Obama, the best man for the job, I'm gonna need you to reply and comment to this post as a sign of solidarity. Let's share our experiences.

Tell us about your experience. How did it feel voting and being a part of such an historic day? I'm so glad I'm alive to see this.

And just in case you are thinking of not voting today (perish the thought), get out there and vote, dammit!

Stop complaining about our nation's problems and do something. Revolution in the head don't count for nothing!

So for those of you who read and don't ever comment, today is the day to make your debut and for a most worthy cause. What happened at your polling place today and what did voting in today's election mean to you?

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Playing In The Background...
"Revolution In The Head"
by Girls Aloud
from the album "Out Of Control"
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Hey My Fellow Americans,

I like, NEVER get political here.

This will probably be the first and the last time for a while so enjoy it.

Just be advised that how I feel is how I feel and I'm not gonna get into any arguments about it.

Anyway...

I hope we're all ready to vote tomorrow?

As we all know tomorrow is US Election Day and you're a US citizen over 18 years of age you should be somewhere voting.

Just in case you need to know:

- Whether you are or are still registered to vote
- Where your polling place is
- About absentee voting
- More about the all of the candidates and where they stand in the presidential and in your local elections

Check out this website: CanIVote.org

Just in case you wanted to know:

I will most certainly be voting for Barack Obama tomorrow, but not because of any of those cheesy, propaganda filled, corny-ass, YouTube videos with will.i.am and John Legend singing the praises of Obama and not because of all these hypnotized negroes around here only voting for him because he's black, excuse me half African and white. But hey, a vote's a vote and if that's what gets him in I'm down.

I'm voting for him because I'm a registered Democrat and I think he's the right guy for the job. I agree with his policies, any democrat would. And frankly I'd vote for anybody who's not John McCain and Sarah Palin's war mongering asses.

I came into this whole thing being a Hillary supporter. Hillary is still my homegirl. I'd rather haver her for president with Barack as VP and I wish that Barack would have picked Hil to be his VP if only for the pleasure of watching her kick Sarah Palin's moose-shooting ass in a debate, but it's all good. We still got Hillary here in New York and there's always 2016.

Anyway, please get out there and vote tomorrow. I know civic duties such as these can be inconvenient and annoying as hell and Lord knows everybody and they mama's uncle is gonna be voting tomorrow, making those lines stretch from here to Timbuktu, but in spite of all of that please vote for Obama. Now if you were planning on voting for McCain, just stay home, it's okay.

And if you're in California vote no on Prop 8. Just in case you didn't know, Proposition 8 is some bullshit-ass law that's gonna make it hard for gay folks to marry. I don't know why these hateful bastards in our government give a fuck who marries who but unfortunately they do. Californians, please do your part to take out this ridiculous, oppressive proposal. For more info on why you should vote no on Prop 8, check out NoOnProp8.com.

So just to make it clear:

Get it?

Got it?

Good.

Now let's dance.

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Playing In The Background...
"The Knowledge"
by Janet Jackson"
from the album "Rhythm Nation 1814"
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