I don't really have anything too thought provoking or particularly interesting to say, but I'm pretty dang impressed that Obama has been getting his shit together really damn quick. This either means that he might make good on all those insane, socially progressive things he said, or it means that he'll burn out within months and we'll have to watch him plummet through time like the portrait of Dorian Grey.
I know it's all common-sense stuff, but I'm still happy. The world sees us as a frightening fatass cop who'll give you a cornhole for speeding, so let's close down that powerfully immoral prison that we slapped in someone else's country. Granted, it won't be actually closed for awhile, but it's still SOMEthing. Plus he stopped all those "enhanced interrogation" techniques. I guess it's a hit. It's a single, but it's a hit. Then he halted this wierd ban on funding for abortion clinics that I didn't even know existed, and just today I read that he was closing a shitton of other super-secret CIA prisons. Also I heard he was going to do something about Don't Ask Don't Tell, but that was in passing on Digg, so who the hell knows.
I'm trying to keep a safe distance from all the horn-blowing and angels flying about, but it's difficult when I see my mom watching the inaguration, completely elated with tears in her eyes going on about how "it's about damn time that we vote for a black guy." Everyone's excited about it, and it is a big fatty deal, but I'm more concerned with the fact that he's a politician. Recent events have proven that he's at least got SOME balls on him, so maybe he'll take it the distance and actually enact some of those economic policies that got stupid people from Kentucky looking up the word "Socialist."
No, no. I know. They never looked it up.
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