Election hour of the wolf
You know… this is stupid, and probably shows off my distorted sense of what’s important and what’s not. But I mostly ignored the recent Finnish election, just reading the results from the web the next day…. and here I am, it’s 1:50am and I can’t go to sleep before seeing at least some preliminary data on how the U.S. election is going. I’m so hoping Obama will win, for a wide variety of reasons (amongst them the fact that I quite admire the man). Not “hero worship” admire. Just admire. He’s the sort of man that (I feel) deserves to lead the States. Not a dim-witted, powerhungry (ex)alcoholic like the one who has been in office during the last 8 sad years.
McCain was looking reasonable until his choice of Palin as running mate and the angry, shrill and ugly turn his campaign took in the end. Asshole.
…so here I am, half a globe away from the States and awake, sipping red wine and reading John Wick’s bizarre, intimidating and awesome Houses of the Blooded, hoping for the best. Maybe because I was partly raised in a sort-of U.S. cultural environment, I’ve always had a soft spot for the U.S.. Not the politics. Never that. The people, the attitudes, the way of life. There’s a lot of good stuff there, a fact that gets lost sometimes in the general U.S. hatefest you tend to see over here (which is mostly deserved, of course). A lot of bad, too.
I’ve said it before, but I think a lot of the things I admire most about the States can be summed up by Burning Man. Many folks in the U.S. would probably find that a scary statement, but for me it’s just the truth. For whatever it’s worth.
So here I am. A glass of red wine. An open book. A web page that tells me “no results yet”.
Here’s to hope.
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:34 Posted in Life, the final frontier
Tags politics
