It's Over in Virginia
Despite -- or to spite -- the ravings of the religious wrong here in Madison County, the race for the White House has ended in the Old Dominion. It's Obama by 6 lengths and going away. True, the pained cries of the McCarthyites (sill alive and well here) continued to scream well into the night, hours after all the networks had called it for "Old Big Ears" (as friendly historians began to call Obama in the 22nd century).
"Fraud!! Fraud!!" the wicked witches of the right wailed, their voices dying to nothingness in the cold night air.
"Recount!! Recount!!" the words striking fear into the hearts of the older good guys, memories of hanging chads and bought and paid for Supreme Court judges still quivering in their heart of hearts.
But all the sound and fury of the defeatist few were drowned out by the singing and dancing of young voices and feet in the storied cities of this, the last state to secede from the union and the first now to reenter in glory.
Dead and gone now, long forgotten are the mewling masses of the Palinites, their willing betrayal of their good senses having at last been dulled to silence by the images of that airheaded woman sitting in the White House with her extended middle finger resting feverishly on the red button of nuclear war. It was more than even the stone-headedest of the stoney-brained could bear to see. Perhaps many of them did still touch the names of McCain/Palin on the wired-for-victory electronic felons, but the magical prestidigitations of the hardware were not enough to offset the landslide. It was, as we have seen, Obama by six widening lengths.
Ah, Omar, where now is your "moving finger," where the unstoppable force of history that the tears of the defeated still try to wash out? Gone with the wind, you say? Overwhelmed by an even stronger hand? Washed away by the overwhelming will of God's unwavering goodness, left to wither as the new tides of history roll up the storied ruins of a desultory past. A new hand writes, a new history unfolds. The past is neither prologue nor memory, existing in the eyes of the New World only as the necessary foundation . . . .
Only the purple verses remain. As ever.
"Fraud!! Fraud!!" the wicked witches of the right wailed, their voices dying to nothingness in the cold night air.
"Recount!! Recount!!" the words striking fear into the hearts of the older good guys, memories of hanging chads and bought and paid for Supreme Court judges still quivering in their heart of hearts.
But all the sound and fury of the defeatist few were drowned out by the singing and dancing of young voices and feet in the storied cities of this, the last state to secede from the union and the first now to reenter in glory.
Dead and gone now, long forgotten are the mewling masses of the Palinites, their willing betrayal of their good senses having at last been dulled to silence by the images of that airheaded woman sitting in the White House with her extended middle finger resting feverishly on the red button of nuclear war. It was more than even the stone-headedest of the stoney-brained could bear to see. Perhaps many of them did still touch the names of McCain/Palin on the wired-for-victory electronic felons, but the magical prestidigitations of the hardware were not enough to offset the landslide. It was, as we have seen, Obama by six widening lengths.
Ah, Omar, where now is your "moving finger," where the unstoppable force of history that the tears of the defeated still try to wash out? Gone with the wind, you say? Overwhelmed by an even stronger hand? Washed away by the overwhelming will of God's unwavering goodness, left to wither as the new tides of history roll up the storied ruins of a desultory past. A new hand writes, a new history unfolds. The past is neither prologue nor memory, existing in the eyes of the New World only as the necessary foundation . . . .
Only the purple verses remain. As ever.
posted by Benedict S. at 8:50 AM
2 Comments:
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The East Coast states will report first. If John McCain is going to win, then he will win Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. If Obama wins Virginia - it's over. That simple. He is comfortably ahead in all of the blue states that John Kerry won in 2004. He is very likely to win all of those. So, unless something gargantuan unexpected happens, if they call Virginia for Obama, you will know at that moment that he is the next President of the United States.
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