Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Hope a dope

Obama's acceptance speech was so good, it got me drunk.

No idea whether the man will be able to live up to even a small fraction of the expectations that are now on him, but America is a country that lives on symbolism, and it has just been given a massive injection of positive symbolism for the first time in, like, forever.

1 comment:

Skza said...

Obama's speech also got me drunk on drunk. Or maybe that was the cans of Bud. Either way I've got a happiness hangover.

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