The Good News

Way to go, Hawkeyes.

You didn't believe the hype and let the media annoint Hillary.

Obama wins in Iowa, and gives one hell of a speech in the process. I feel like history maybe in the making.

Update: Nathan tells us true (and with a Bloom County reference to boot!).

"I am at once very pleased and freaked the fuck out right now.

I personally don’t buy the whole 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation' meme, but assuming I’m wrong tonight’s Iowa caucus results say some mighty interesting things about the state of the union and where it might be going. Obama’s my man, and has been pretty much from the get-go. Although Kucinich far more represents me on the issues, both Dennis and I knew in our heart of hearts that he’s not likely to be president any time this decade. He threw his support behind Barack and so did I. Likely for similar reasons. "

Given the last seven nightmare bizarro world years, its easy to be pensive about the future: Bush has done everything to make sure there is no future. Indeed, he is very much like those idiots who used to hang on Short Vine, who thought that Johnny Rotten's warning/lament about "No Future" was a mission statement. So hope is in short supply, but there is a light over at the Obama-stein place.

Now, I'm not gonna go all gooey yet, especially because there still so many ways for Hillary to fuck this up, but I have to tell you: I woke up today feeling great. Election day 2004 was waiting on a miracle, because this is George Bush we're talking about, and like his father, I won't and didn't trust him as far as I can throw him, and I knew some shit was going to go down and -lo and behold-a terror alert in OHIO?!!?

No, I feel great. Like a new dawn is coming. Really, not just a choice between the lesser of two evils, but like something else is going down.

I'm stoked.

Oh, and Huckleberry can suck it. I don't care how much he likes The Ox.