Welcome back from your humongous New Year's Eve hangover. I just wanted to let you know that you are now in 2009. A fresh new year that we should look forward to. However, since you are a common citizen of Earth, you don't look ahead to a future. Instead, you look to the bleak and bloated year that has now passed. That's why they invented "Best and Worst" lists for the previous year. It gives you a chance to remember last year's crap, get angry, proceed to get drunk, pass out, wake up, and forget it's a new year again. At that point, you get angry again. It's a vicious cycle and we love it! With that, here's my "Best and Worst" list for 2008.
It only consists of two final entries.
The BEST thing to have happened in 2008:
Was the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Finally someone not from "That" generation will run the free world. I see great and exiting times ahead for this country and the world. He seems like just the one to change peoples attitudes from being so pessimistic into a positive direction. He was able to get the younger voters interested in the election. I'll even take it a step further. Because the greatest thing about Obama isn't really about Obama at all it's actually about, well, us. This is the great revelation: We still got it. The collective unconscious, the deep sense of inner wisdom, that intuitive knowing that borders on a kind of mystical proficiency, where millions of people can actually look beyond rhetoric and media spin and merely feel the presence of something great about to happen.
The WORST thing to have happened in 2008:
Was the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.
We are now headed in the direction of being a socialistic society where the more money you earn the more the government takes from you. There are going to be thousands of people dependent upon the government for their meager existence. Grist to Obama's mill? Yes, indeed. The uneasy mood of the country reinforces the desire for a change of direction. Obama is clever; he has run a good and disciplined campaign that has inspired many people, but the senator has yet to show convincingly that he has a sense of humour.
Yes, it is galling that he appointed Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
"Is that sniper fire I hear? Barack Obama's suggestion that economically suffering small town Americans are haters who cling to God and guns out of bitterness is a way bigger deal than he seems to realize, even now. Five years into an unpopular war, and with the economy tanking, the widely held and absolutely poisonous perception that Obama tends to look down on Mr. and Mrs. Middle America.
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