Unlike when I voted for these guys, I finally managed to vote for a presidential candidate that won something. Barack Obama has won the Democratic party’s nomination! I’m pretty excited that he won and I’m also glad that Senator Clinton is backing down gracefully and not trying to fight it out to the bitter end.
I’ll be voting for him in November even though I don’t really think he has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning in Tennessee. There are three types of people here that won’t vote for him and they sadly make up a large number of people in this state. Some people won’t vote for him because he is brown (i.e. they’re racist assholes). Some people won’t vote for him because they think he’s Muslim (i.e. they’re ignorant assholes). And the last group are Republicans (i.e. easily led sheeple that are afraid a teenager who isn’t ready for motherhood will have an abortion or that a gay person might be happy somewhere or that kids might learn some science).
However, I do have some reason to be optimistic. Harold Ford Jr., a black Democrat from Memphis, only lost to Bob Corker by three percentage points in the 2006 Senatorial race. This despite racially charged ads that were run by the Corker campaign and also despite the fact that he has some notoriously corrupt family members.
So there is some hope and that’s part of what Obama’s campaign is about. Hope that people and things will change for the better. If you’d like to see things change for the better, donate to the campaign and be sure to vote for Barack in November!
