So I was watching Lou Dobbs on CNN late last night and a conservative radio host from San Diego declared that Barack Obama’s Kenyan Aunt’s immigration status (grasping at straws a little bit?) begs the question ‘is Mr. Obama truly his brother’s keeper?’
Well Mr. Radio Host, I’m all for quoting early ’90s action movies. And to bastardize another famous line from New Jack City, as uttered by Ice-T…
I want to vote so bad, my dick is hard.
That’s right.
For 21 months, Barack Obama has been the most measured and most Presidential guy in the room. In the words of Beastie Boy MCA, he has been cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce, excelling under pressure while the frenzied masses on the other side did everything but call for his lynching.
“Terrorist.” “Arab.” “Socialist.”
The attacks have been unrelenting, mostly emanating from that black hole of all rational thought that is Governor Sarah Palin.
Its payback time.
I want to show the NeoCon architects of this disgusting culture war of a campaign that their divide, slash and burn tactics have utterly and miserably failed.
I want Sarah Palin to go skulking back to Alaska where she’s free to practice her Confederate-style “patriotism” on her own constituents.
I want the Republican Party to look itself in the mirror and ask itself: ‘Really?’ Did we really just go there? Did we really just bank everything on ‘Joe Six Pack’ and ‘Divide and Conquer’ and the values of the Old South?
I want every racist in this country to look at the TV tonight and swallow the cold, hard, fact that the world has moved on without them.
I want the schoolkids in Tallahassee Florida — all grown up now — who threw eggs at my mother for having a black friend to see just how on the wrong side of history they were.
I want the woman who thinks that the world was created 4,000 years ago and that certain books should be burned as far away from the Whitehouse as humanly possible. And Wasilla is just about far enough for me.
I want every American who has ever been cynical — as I have — to realize, only if for a moment, what a truly amazing place this is. That the son of a working class white woman from Kansas and a Kenyan immigrant can beat ALL of the odds and become President of the United States.
I want the governments of the world — especially the ones who don’t even let their citizens vote — to take note.
I want the people of the world to respect us again. For eight years, America has been synonymous with Bush and Iraq, with arrogance and stupidity, with not being able to locate France on a map. Let us not be a nation of mediocrity any longer.
I want the candidate who has said, in no uncertain terms, the Iraq War was a mistake, to be my President. Because it was a massive f***ing mistake.
I want the candidate who can command the respect of everyone in the room to be the one sitting in the room with world leaders.
More than anything, I want to get this done.
So I’m off to the polls. Hope you’ll join me.
Lets make history.
November 4, 2008 at 7:53 am
Very well said, but what the fuck does it have to do with Ice T?
Red or blue cuz of blood, it just don’t matter. Colors. Colors.
ian
November 4, 2008 at 7:57 am
Ice-T in New Jack City: “I want to shoot you so bad, my dick is hard….”
November 4, 2008 at 8:17 am
Great post Josh. I’m so ready for this, too. We all are.
November 4, 2008 at 8:21 am
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November 4, 2008 at 8:47 am
This article mentions NONE of the big ticket issues facing our country and economy … It’s all social rhetoric; Nothing about HOW he is going to lead the country out of recession. Instead you underhandedly say anyone who votes for McCain is a racist and that is absolutely ridiculous.
Come on, J, you need a better argument than this if you are going to convince anyone reading to vote Obama today.
November 4, 2008 at 9:51 am
Hey M,
This article wasn’t meant as a rational dissection of the big ticket issues facing the country — i certainly wouldn’t have titled it after Ice-T if that was the case
– its more a ‘lets go to the polls and seal the deal’ rant mostly for the readers who are already voting for Obama. At this point, I would assume that people have made up their minds. If not, and you know any undecideds out there, I’d be happy to talk directly about the issues, which several of the other articles I’ve written deal more directly with. But I imagine everyone pretty much knows who they’re voting for.
But honestly, I don’t think the Republican party has much of a leg to stand on when comes to the ‘issues’ at this point. Which is why McCain’s been avoiding them the entire campaign. Its hard to justify a party whose President has a 28% approval rating and has turned us into the biggest debtors in the world; its also hard to justify putting Sarah Palin — who doesn’t believe in evolution and probably couldnt locate Iran on a map and thinks that if you’re raped by your father you still shouldn’t be able to get an abortion– anywhere NEAR the Oval Office.
I was a big fan of John McCain in 2000. Unfortunately he has followed the advice of the current Republican leadership and banked everything on an odious culture war pitting “Real Americans” against “the rest of us”. He’s the one who’s avoiding the issues. He’s been avoiding the issues this entire campaign. And luckily, we won’t have to hear much more from him after about 16 hours from now.
J
BTW — re: the racism comment, that’s not what I’m implying at all. that’s silly.