Every child remembers that interminable period between handing in your Christmas list and the day you actually receive your gifts. It’s a similar, though markedly different experience from when you get in trouble at school at you wait for your parents to arrive home to punish you. There are moments when the decisions have already been made, but when you have to wait before anything can be done. Right now, like that child before Christmas, in theory I have this great present I’ll be getting on January 20th, but I can’t enjoy it until then. After coming down from the high of Tuesday night, it’s difficult for it to feel real because while we’ve elected Barack Obama, he’s still not our President for two more months.
At least during the campaign, their was an energy of optimism propelling us forward, and at all times there were actions we could take to achieve our desired outcome. Now, we have that outcome, and while there’s plenty to be done in the meantime, those of us who elected Obama don’t have much to do except wait until that day when we can see the fruits of our labor in action.
It’s important to remember that there is an army of volunteers out here, people who spent weekends phone-banking, or canvassing their neighbors, or donating their money, all to achieve the historic victory we saw on Tuesday night. We’re all still out here, and ready to be mobilized. The DNC and Obama campaign shouldn’t forget that in all of the planning they have to do before January. In the meantime, we should do what we can to stay engaged and keep things moving in the right direction. Volunteer in your community, write letters to your representatives telling them specifically which issues are most important to you, keep canvassing your friends and acquaintances to get them on board with the new President. Sure, the election is over, but we can still win hearts and minds, and make it that much easier for the new administration.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Oppressed and Oppressor
Here's an upsetting fact: on the same day that one minority group takes a big step forward, another minority group gets knocked back. More upsetting is the fact that the two may even be related.
Due to the historic nature of this election, as well as the effective Get Out the Vote efforts of the Obama campaign, a record number of black people voted nationwide, oftentimes making up a larger percentage of the electorate than they represent in the general population. That wouldn't be a bad thing, except in California. California was one state that had a ballot initiative to define marriage as between between a man and a woman, effectively making gay marriage illegal in the state where it's been legal for the last 4 months. The irony that a lot of the money used to promote this bigoted agenda came from Mormon groups, who themselves are persecuted for their marriage practices, is not lost on me.
So what does this have to do with black voter turnout? In the state of California, white voters opposed this amendment 55% to 44%, while black voters supported it by a margin of 69% to 31%. This measure barely passed with about 52%. Now it's not as simple as saying that one caused the other, because of course that would avoid the other effect of this election. In addition to record black turnout, there was also record youth and first-time voter turnout, and those two groups voted overwhelmingly against Prop 8, including those first-time black voters. Really, black or white, the two groups that are to blame for Prop 8 being passed are older voters (the only age group that also went overwhelmingly for McCain) and religious bigots, which exist in all races. It's not as simple as a cause-and-effect, but it should give us pause that while people were able to overcome one set of prejudices, they were unable to overcome another. While I'm outraged that so many white people supported Prop 8, it's also upsetting that an even greater percentage of an oft-discriminated against group did as well.
So the empowerment of one group results in the disenfranchisement of another. Sadly, there was a time when there were laws on the books preventing people of different races from marrying, but so often we no longer have a sense of history. What is the cause of this? Is it religious? Is it cultural? Or is it simply that strange phenomenon that is fundamentally American? The Pilgrims left Britain to get away from religious persecution, and when they arrived here, they persecuted those who didn't agree with them. When newer immigrants began to arrive in our nation of immigrants, they were persecuted by the immigrants who arrived before them. African-Americans have suffered a long time in this nation, but this learning curve must be improved. If people who've been discriminated against can't see how wrong it is to discriminate against others, what hope do we have?
Due to the historic nature of this election, as well as the effective Get Out the Vote efforts of the Obama campaign, a record number of black people voted nationwide, oftentimes making up a larger percentage of the electorate than they represent in the general population. That wouldn't be a bad thing, except in California. California was one state that had a ballot initiative to define marriage as between between a man and a woman, effectively making gay marriage illegal in the state where it's been legal for the last 4 months. The irony that a lot of the money used to promote this bigoted agenda came from Mormon groups, who themselves are persecuted for their marriage practices, is not lost on me.
So what does this have to do with black voter turnout? In the state of California, white voters opposed this amendment 55% to 44%, while black voters supported it by a margin of 69% to 31%. This measure barely passed with about 52%. Now it's not as simple as saying that one caused the other, because of course that would avoid the other effect of this election. In addition to record black turnout, there was also record youth and first-time voter turnout, and those two groups voted overwhelmingly against Prop 8, including those first-time black voters. Really, black or white, the two groups that are to blame for Prop 8 being passed are older voters (the only age group that also went overwhelmingly for McCain) and religious bigots, which exist in all races. It's not as simple as a cause-and-effect, but it should give us pause that while people were able to overcome one set of prejudices, they were unable to overcome another. While I'm outraged that so many white people supported Prop 8, it's also upsetting that an even greater percentage of an oft-discriminated against group did as well.
So the empowerment of one group results in the disenfranchisement of another. Sadly, there was a time when there were laws on the books preventing people of different races from marrying, but so often we no longer have a sense of history. What is the cause of this? Is it religious? Is it cultural? Or is it simply that strange phenomenon that is fundamentally American? The Pilgrims left Britain to get away from religious persecution, and when they arrived here, they persecuted those who didn't agree with them. When newer immigrants began to arrive in our nation of immigrants, they were persecuted by the immigrants who arrived before them. African-Americans have suffered a long time in this nation, but this learning curve must be improved. If people who've been discriminated against can't see how wrong it is to discriminate against others, what hope do we have?
Not So Fast...
This morning, all over the world, people are celebrating and with good cause. I think we all deserve a day off (like the nation of Kenya...good for them) or maybe even a couple days to rest and collect ourselves while the final counts are done (and the recounts...Go Franken!) However, the election of Barack Obama is not the end, it is the means to the end. This is an historic moment, but it’s just a first step in changing the world for the better. We can’t let our guard down for a moment, because last night while history broke down one wall, it put up a security fence.
You see, while we were electing our first non-white President - finally living up to the full promise of our Declaration of Independence, abolition, and the civil rights movement - 4 states were turning their attention to one of the last socially condoned forms of discrimination.
In Arkansas, they passed a ban on gay adoption. These are many of the same people who also want to ban all abortion, which means more children being born to parents who don’t want them. If they had their way, there’d be even more kids being put up for adoption, but they also want to eliminate a huge pool of people who can’t have children of their own, so want to give all of their love and attention to an adopted child. Anytime someone talks about how children do better with a mother and a father, I just have to roll my eyes. Straight people don’t have to pass any test to become parents, and in my life I’ve met a lot of people and most of their parents were highly flawed in one way or another. Honestly, gay people couldn’t do a worse job than us, and at least they would be specifically choosing to be parents and not just stumbling into it. Also, they would know that every action they made was being scrutinized, and would probably be better parents.
Arizona, Florida, and California went a step farther. As much as I disagree with the people of Arkansas, it’s one thing to want to keep children in a certain environment, and quite another to reach right into people’s homes where they aren’t influencing anyone else and telling them what they can and can’t do. If tomorrow a constitutional amendment was passed banning all marriage, what do you think people would do? Many would riot, certainly. Some wouldn’t care. Overall though, they would continue to live their lives they way they always had. They’d meet, fall in love, move in together, maybe have children and open a joint checking account. The reason is because marriage as an institution is cultural, not merely legal. So gay people are still going to be gay, still going to fall in love, still going to pair up and have lives together. So all this amendment does, and this is the sinister part, is deny them legal rights and protections. Marriage is a legal, binding contract that provides many benefits, and can even provide financial incentives come tax season. These amendments deny those same benefits to people who want to get married, but who aren’t biologically attracted to the opposite sex. They can’t help that, and yet people in three states think they should either lie to themselves and others or forfeit their rights.
Next time someone talks about crazy, liberal California, remind them about this vote. And next time you think about how happy you are that the Presidency has finally broken that racial barrier, remember that in Florida, a state where gay marriage was already illegal, they decided to beat that dead horse with a constitutional amendment. Long ago we abolished discrimination based on race in our laws, but it took a long time for that to change in practice. There are still many barriers to freedom to be broken down. Last night we had one, but we have to keep going. It may be a Sisyphusian struggle, but we can’t stop trying to get that boulder to the top of the hill, because when we stop for even a moment, it rolls back down.
You see, while we were electing our first non-white President - finally living up to the full promise of our Declaration of Independence, abolition, and the civil rights movement - 4 states were turning their attention to one of the last socially condoned forms of discrimination.
In Arkansas, they passed a ban on gay adoption. These are many of the same people who also want to ban all abortion, which means more children being born to parents who don’t want them. If they had their way, there’d be even more kids being put up for adoption, but they also want to eliminate a huge pool of people who can’t have children of their own, so want to give all of their love and attention to an adopted child. Anytime someone talks about how children do better with a mother and a father, I just have to roll my eyes. Straight people don’t have to pass any test to become parents, and in my life I’ve met a lot of people and most of their parents were highly flawed in one way or another. Honestly, gay people couldn’t do a worse job than us, and at least they would be specifically choosing to be parents and not just stumbling into it. Also, they would know that every action they made was being scrutinized, and would probably be better parents.
Arizona, Florida, and California went a step farther. As much as I disagree with the people of Arkansas, it’s one thing to want to keep children in a certain environment, and quite another to reach right into people’s homes where they aren’t influencing anyone else and telling them what they can and can’t do. If tomorrow a constitutional amendment was passed banning all marriage, what do you think people would do? Many would riot, certainly. Some wouldn’t care. Overall though, they would continue to live their lives they way they always had. They’d meet, fall in love, move in together, maybe have children and open a joint checking account. The reason is because marriage as an institution is cultural, not merely legal. So gay people are still going to be gay, still going to fall in love, still going to pair up and have lives together. So all this amendment does, and this is the sinister part, is deny them legal rights and protections. Marriage is a legal, binding contract that provides many benefits, and can even provide financial incentives come tax season. These amendments deny those same benefits to people who want to get married, but who aren’t biologically attracted to the opposite sex. They can’t help that, and yet people in three states think they should either lie to themselves and others or forfeit their rights.
Next time someone talks about crazy, liberal California, remind them about this vote. And next time you think about how happy you are that the Presidency has finally broken that racial barrier, remember that in Florida, a state where gay marriage was already illegal, they decided to beat that dead horse with a constitutional amendment. Long ago we abolished discrimination based on race in our laws, but it took a long time for that to change in practice. There are still many barriers to freedom to be broken down. Last night we had one, but we have to keep going. It may be a Sisyphusian struggle, but we can’t stop trying to get that boulder to the top of the hill, because when we stop for even a moment, it rolls back down.
Yes, We Can
And so it goes. We hoped, we dreamed, and we went to work. What we’ve accomplished is a great thing, and not simply for those of us who supported Barack Obama. Tonight, our course has been set in a new direction, and already the eyes of history are upon us.
There will of course be more results to come in, more down-ticket races, and more analysis of just how this happened and what it’ll mean for the near future. But I’ll take John McCain and Barack Obama at their word, that we should all come together now as one nation, and pull together to solve our problems. I, for one, am excited for what’s to come.
All of the anger and hate and maliciousness of the campaign is past. Now is the time to get on board, or get out of the way. The choice is yours, but some of us are getting to work.
There will of course be more results to come in, more down-ticket races, and more analysis of just how this happened and what it’ll mean for the near future. But I’ll take John McCain and Barack Obama at their word, that we should all come together now as one nation, and pull together to solve our problems. I, for one, am excited for what’s to come.
All of the anger and hate and maliciousness of the campaign is past. Now is the time to get on board, or get out of the way. The choice is yours, but some of us are getting to work.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Election Day Predictions
What a beautiful day for an election. Birds are singing, the sun is shining (at least in my state). People are opening doors for each other and whistling happy tunes. For me, election day is what I assume Super Bowl Sunday, Christmas, or opening day of a Michael Bay movie are for other people. I was up late and woke up early, and I’m giddy with anticipation for tonight when the results come in. There’s an episode in season 7 of the West Wing that takes place on election day, and Josh can’t stop running around trying to make last minute changes, when really all there is left to do is vote and wait. That’s how I feel.
So now many people are filling the hours between when the polls opened and when they will close by predicting the outcome of the election. I’m not going to do that for two equally ridiculous reasons. First, though I consider myself a person of reason, I’m still not immune to the feeling that I’m going to jinx myself. There’s still a small part of me that blames myself for John Kerry’s defeat, all due to my optimism. Secondly, no matter what my prediction, the only thing that matters is what actually occurs, so I have nothing to gain and any semblance of intelligent analysis to lose.
Instead, let me make a broader prediction. I think that in the coming weeks, people are going to come down off their rhetoric, and start thinking about how we can come together and make things work again. People will once again pay attention to George Bush, so that hopefully he won’t get away with all of the last minute executive shenanigans he’s planning. I think all the hate-mongers will retire to their corners to fester in their racism, but will mostly leave the rest of us alone.
I believe that when historians look back on this election, much of the bitterness and mudslinging will be forgotten, but what will be remembered is that Barack Obama ran one of the most disciplined and effective campaigns in history. Win or lose, he has done the seemingly impossible. He’s shown us that a black man, from a mixed background and non-traditional family, with an unusual name and new ideas can overcome the politics of division and a history of bigotry in this nation to become President. He’s shown us that a good man can succeed in politics without resorting to dirty tricks and outright lies. Win or lose, he’s given hope to people that have given up on the idea that America can live up to the promise of it’s ideals. Inarguably, that hope will be better served if he wins, but no matter what happens, starting tomorrow there will be millions more people involved in their own government again.
I also predict that I am going to have either a very good night, or a very bad one. But either way, much like the end of The West Wing, I will be a little sad that this time is over, but also excited and hopeful for what’s to come. Good day and good luck.
So now many people are filling the hours between when the polls opened and when they will close by predicting the outcome of the election. I’m not going to do that for two equally ridiculous reasons. First, though I consider myself a person of reason, I’m still not immune to the feeling that I’m going to jinx myself. There’s still a small part of me that blames myself for John Kerry’s defeat, all due to my optimism. Secondly, no matter what my prediction, the only thing that matters is what actually occurs, so I have nothing to gain and any semblance of intelligent analysis to lose.
Instead, let me make a broader prediction. I think that in the coming weeks, people are going to come down off their rhetoric, and start thinking about how we can come together and make things work again. People will once again pay attention to George Bush, so that hopefully he won’t get away with all of the last minute executive shenanigans he’s planning. I think all the hate-mongers will retire to their corners to fester in their racism, but will mostly leave the rest of us alone.
I believe that when historians look back on this election, much of the bitterness and mudslinging will be forgotten, but what will be remembered is that Barack Obama ran one of the most disciplined and effective campaigns in history. Win or lose, he has done the seemingly impossible. He’s shown us that a black man, from a mixed background and non-traditional family, with an unusual name and new ideas can overcome the politics of division and a history of bigotry in this nation to become President. He’s shown us that a good man can succeed in politics without resorting to dirty tricks and outright lies. Win or lose, he’s given hope to people that have given up on the idea that America can live up to the promise of it’s ideals. Inarguably, that hope will be better served if he wins, but no matter what happens, starting tomorrow there will be millions more people involved in their own government again.
I also predict that I am going to have either a very good night, or a very bad one. But either way, much like the end of The West Wing, I will be a little sad that this time is over, but also excited and hopeful for what’s to come. Good day and good luck.
This Just In: Obama Wins in Landslide (in Dixville Notch)!
Perhaps some of you saw that terrific episode of The West Wing (thought aren’t they all) called “Hartsfield Landing” about a small town in New Hampshire in which every citizen of voting age gets together at 12:01 a.m. on election day, votes, and the polls close a minute later. As fantanstic a writer as Aaron Sorking is, he did not invent this concept. There is a real town in New Hampshire which has operated this way since 1960, and it’s known as Dixville Notch. This morning, the first town to vote in the nation chose Obama over McCain in a landslide 15 to 6. That’s a full 71% of the vote for Obama, in a state where he is currently only ahead by a few points.
Why is this, or should it be news? Well, because of a trend it could spell for the rest of the country. See, in this small New Hampshire town, the Republican candidate usually wins...by a lot. Bush beat both Kerry and Gore by a sizable margin. Bush Sr. beat Dukakis 34-3, and Reagan beat Mondale 29-1. The fact that Obama is winning, and by such a large margin, could mean that formerly Republican strongholds may tip in his favor today.
We’ll shall have to wait and see, but I’m liking our chances. And, as Obama has famously said, in the unlikely story that is America, there’s never anything false about Hope.
Why is this, or should it be news? Well, because of a trend it could spell for the rest of the country. See, in this small New Hampshire town, the Republican candidate usually wins...by a lot. Bush beat both Kerry and Gore by a sizable margin. Bush Sr. beat Dukakis 34-3, and Reagan beat Mondale 29-1. The fact that Obama is winning, and by such a large margin, could mean that formerly Republican strongholds may tip in his favor today.
We’ll shall have to wait and see, but I’m liking our chances. And, as Obama has famously said, in the unlikely story that is America, there’s never anything false about Hope.
Monday, November 3, 2008
It's the Final Countdown
So here it is. After an extremely long primary, and a seemingly long general campaign, the election is nearly past. Certainly, we’ll have the week’s of recounts, and complaints, and political post-game coverage on every network, but for all intents and purposes, it will all be over in 36 hours. Oh, but what a long, strange trip it has been.
Where did it start? John McCain was trailing among all of the Republican candidates. When faced with the options of people who don’t believe in evolution, people who don’t believe in global warming, and people who believe in magic underwear, the Republicans said “I’ll take any of them over John McCain.” Unfortunately, as the fell all over each other to vote for the least qualified candidates, John McCain played the slow-but-steady tortoise and inched by to become the nominee. Meanwhile, the Democrats showed people what a real Democracy looks like, by letting every vote count in every state, keeping the race neck and neck between two historic candidates.
But it wasn’t all wine and roses. We were told that black people would only vote for a black candidate, and that women would only vote for a woman. We were told that to criticize a female candidate is sexist, while also being told that when women don’t get their way, they take their toys and go home. Republican tried to sow dissidence in the ranks of Democrats, all while their candidate did litte and said less.
Then, while calling Democrats sexist for choosing the male candidate over the female, they cynicaly chose their VP based almost entirely on her gender. The two conventions stood in stark contrast: The Democratic convention showing tremendous unity, with thousands of people from every corner of the nation, every race, age, ethnicity, lifestyle coming together and giving a platform for everyone to speak their mind; while the Republican convention allowed fewer speakers, and showed less varied views and faces. The Democratic Convention swung open their doors to 80,000 average Americans, while the Republican convention could barely fill it’s hall with it’s elites. The Democrats showed media savvy and showmanship, while the Republicans had a presentation worthy of a middle management convention, with barely the energy of a watch battery.
And then the past few months. As Barack Obama introduced himself to more and more of America, and more and more of America came to know the real John McCain, the numbers shifted. In every one of the last 159 polls, Barack Obama has been in the lead; sometimes by 2 points, often by a dozen. In desperation, John McCain went 100% negative, lobbing accusations of “socialist” and “terrorist-sympathiser” through a bullhorn, while quietly admiting to reporters that he didn’t really believe these things. In interviews, he spoke of denouncing the hate-speech of his supporters, while at his rallies he neither stopped them nor gave any indication that he disapproved. Actually, no, one time he stopped a woman called Barack an Arab by saying that he, John McCain, thought Barack was a decent man. Yes, he didn’t say that Barack wasn’t an Arab, he just said that he wasn’t evil like, he implied, all other arabs are. Barack Obama has praised John McCain for his service both in the Navy and in the Senate, while the best John McCain can muster is to call Barack “decent.”
After all of this, our country is more polarized than it’s even been under George W. Bush, between two camps of people in this country: those that want to keep the ever-worsening status quo, and those striving for the America we want and not simply the America we have. If John McCain were to win tomorrow, what it would tell us is that despite 80 percent of Americans thinking we’re on the wrong track, and despite economic policies that have hurt our nation, and despite a foreign policy that has damaged our reputation and put our country’s security at risk, that we would rather play to the politics of fear and derision than get over our national bigotry. If Barack Obama wins, I’m certain there will be many crazy people awaiting armageddon, much like they did with Y2K or when the first gay couple married in Massachusetts, but when a week or a month or a year passes without the end of the world, they’ll quietly return to their subtle, silent racism. They’ll go home to their cleaner air, their new jobs, their social safety net, and their America that once again stands proudly as a city on a hill. Sure, they’ll decry every decision President Obama makes, they will speak ill of his policies, and look for any opportunity to knock him down a peg, never admiting they were wrong to think he was a spy, a terrorist, a secret muslim, a dangerous fanatic, or a marxist bent on destroying America. And, we won’t ask them too. We will rise above the poltiics of hate, and even if they never come, they’ll be invited to the party we’ll be having. We’ll have the government we chose, and once again they’ll be working for the people and not for the few. 8 years from now, maybe people will again become complacent and forget just how bad things were before the Obama administration, and they’ll be tricked into voting for whoever the Republicans have nominated (and no, it will not be Palin, not if they want to win). For now though, this is our chance to right the many wrongs that have be done to our nation these last 8 years. I, for one, like our odds.
Where did it start? John McCain was trailing among all of the Republican candidates. When faced with the options of people who don’t believe in evolution, people who don’t believe in global warming, and people who believe in magic underwear, the Republicans said “I’ll take any of them over John McCain.” Unfortunately, as the fell all over each other to vote for the least qualified candidates, John McCain played the slow-but-steady tortoise and inched by to become the nominee. Meanwhile, the Democrats showed people what a real Democracy looks like, by letting every vote count in every state, keeping the race neck and neck between two historic candidates.
But it wasn’t all wine and roses. We were told that black people would only vote for a black candidate, and that women would only vote for a woman. We were told that to criticize a female candidate is sexist, while also being told that when women don’t get their way, they take their toys and go home. Republican tried to sow dissidence in the ranks of Democrats, all while their candidate did litte and said less.
Then, while calling Democrats sexist for choosing the male candidate over the female, they cynicaly chose their VP based almost entirely on her gender. The two conventions stood in stark contrast: The Democratic convention showing tremendous unity, with thousands of people from every corner of the nation, every race, age, ethnicity, lifestyle coming together and giving a platform for everyone to speak their mind; while the Republican convention allowed fewer speakers, and showed less varied views and faces. The Democratic Convention swung open their doors to 80,000 average Americans, while the Republican convention could barely fill it’s hall with it’s elites. The Democrats showed media savvy and showmanship, while the Republicans had a presentation worthy of a middle management convention, with barely the energy of a watch battery.
And then the past few months. As Barack Obama introduced himself to more and more of America, and more and more of America came to know the real John McCain, the numbers shifted. In every one of the last 159 polls, Barack Obama has been in the lead; sometimes by 2 points, often by a dozen. In desperation, John McCain went 100% negative, lobbing accusations of “socialist” and “terrorist-sympathiser” through a bullhorn, while quietly admiting to reporters that he didn’t really believe these things. In interviews, he spoke of denouncing the hate-speech of his supporters, while at his rallies he neither stopped them nor gave any indication that he disapproved. Actually, no, one time he stopped a woman called Barack an Arab by saying that he, John McCain, thought Barack was a decent man. Yes, he didn’t say that Barack wasn’t an Arab, he just said that he wasn’t evil like, he implied, all other arabs are. Barack Obama has praised John McCain for his service both in the Navy and in the Senate, while the best John McCain can muster is to call Barack “decent.”
After all of this, our country is more polarized than it’s even been under George W. Bush, between two camps of people in this country: those that want to keep the ever-worsening status quo, and those striving for the America we want and not simply the America we have. If John McCain were to win tomorrow, what it would tell us is that despite 80 percent of Americans thinking we’re on the wrong track, and despite economic policies that have hurt our nation, and despite a foreign policy that has damaged our reputation and put our country’s security at risk, that we would rather play to the politics of fear and derision than get over our national bigotry. If Barack Obama wins, I’m certain there will be many crazy people awaiting armageddon, much like they did with Y2K or when the first gay couple married in Massachusetts, but when a week or a month or a year passes without the end of the world, they’ll quietly return to their subtle, silent racism. They’ll go home to their cleaner air, their new jobs, their social safety net, and their America that once again stands proudly as a city on a hill. Sure, they’ll decry every decision President Obama makes, they will speak ill of his policies, and look for any opportunity to knock him down a peg, never admiting they were wrong to think he was a spy, a terrorist, a secret muslim, a dangerous fanatic, or a marxist bent on destroying America. And, we won’t ask them too. We will rise above the poltiics of hate, and even if they never come, they’ll be invited to the party we’ll be having. We’ll have the government we chose, and once again they’ll be working for the people and not for the few. 8 years from now, maybe people will again become complacent and forget just how bad things were before the Obama administration, and they’ll be tricked into voting for whoever the Republicans have nominated (and no, it will not be Palin, not if they want to win). For now though, this is our chance to right the many wrongs that have be done to our nation these last 8 years. I, for one, like our odds.
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