Well… it’s over. I wish I could be happy with the choices I made at the poll, but I wasn’t happy with the choices that were available to me in the first place. Unfortunately, my wish that my choice for president would be the loser in the race did not come to pass, so now I’ll have to bear a portion of responsibility for whatever happens for the four years to come. Let me just say that it was with great reservation and heavy heart that I chose the way I did. It’s just that the other guy was marginally worse.
But I did find it interesting that gas prices did not mysteriously drop to $1.50 in the weeks ahead of the election. Neither did the administration suddenly make an announcement about the capture, scalping, skinning, drawn-and-quartering, and beheading of Bin Laden. Not that I give them a lot of credit for being able to drop bombs on everyone *except* the actual perpetrator and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, but at least it’s honest failure.
My hope is that somehow the weaving of cause and effect into a series of definitive events will cause history to look back on this time and find that our actions, while arguably underinformed, reactionary, misguided, and mismanaged… will somehow have a positive effect on the United States and the rest of the world.
