ADullAche

(Since everyone else in the world jumped on Forrest Bush for his painfully stupid – the ‘dull ache’ appellation becomes clearer and clearer, doesn’t it – and highly inappropriate “appeasement” remarks to the Knesset last week, and since a day doesn’t go by where he doesn’t do or say something mindnumbingly moronic, I’ve gone in a different direction this week.)

YEAH, I THOUGHT I WAS SMARTER TOO…

“Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama can be elected President of the United States. They could be elected President of New York and Los Angeles, but in the in-between bunch of country known as America—look away coasters, east and west—a black man or this particular woman are simply not electable, at least not yet.” (Me, July 31, 2007.)

It was bound to happen. You say enough, you write thousands of words, eventually something’s going to come back and bite you. Granted I’m not bit yet, as November is still an eternity away, but the current polls have Obama – who, when the Oregon primary ends tonight will have a majority of the pledged delegates – beating McBush (thanks Mo Dowd) in the general election.

(Of course Hillary can still push the button on the ‘nuclear option’ and bring down the entire party hoping for a do-over in 2012, but even her crypto-campaign manager Karl Rove wouldn’t approve of that…you know his motto: never steal an election tomorrow when you can steal one today.)

But I digress; this is about me being an idiot.

Look, who knew? Did I actually think America, even a really pissed off America would let it fly and vote big for an Anti-Bush? (Not to be confused with the Anti-Christ which is who we elected in 2000.)

No.

I thought, at best, we’d pay a little a lip service to the idea of a woman or a black man as president, then, as we saw in New Hampshire, conscientious voters stepped into the booth and voted their conscience – most of which was channeled from somewhere near Tuscaloosa during the Civil War. (Hell, I know people who are still pretty angry at the outcome of “The War of Northern Aggression” and read The Wall Street Journal daily, hoping to see Colored Folks Inc. – CFI – listed on the NASDAQ so they can get in on the ground floor.)

And yet, the other day 80,000 people attended an Obama rally in Oregon. McCain hasn’t spoken to 80,000 people total since he started running. It’s hard to ignore that kind of passion amongst voters.

So, I WAS WRONG…for the moment.

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