Obama

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.

Wow.

And if you want to see something totally cool...come to a majority-black high school the day after the election. Students were yelling "OBAMA!" all day long. Plus, I had the distinct pleasure of grading many a pop quiz with the words "OBAMA '08" and "Yes we can!" written all over the margins. It's an exciting time, even though the days ahead are as uncertain as they can be for our country's place in the world.

That said, there was a really funny quote from The Stranger, Seattle's 'premiere' free newspaper--which in reality means a super-liberal publication full of advertisements, sex advice columns, porn ads (in color, of course), written from the neo-technocratic journalism of white hipsters.

Nonetheless, the following section I thought was really funny, especially the last paragraph. Enjoy.

Maybe you are one of these people with one of these shirts. If you are, it's time for me to deliver some bad news: Your shirt is awkward now. I mean, what are you going to do with it? Wear it? Wear a T-shirt with the president's huge face on it? UM! That is WEIRD. The moment Barack Obama won the presidential election, your shirt became creepy. It's weird enough that those Shepard Fairey posters are still plastered everywhere, Chairman Mao style. Like that crazy "President for Life" dude (dead now) in Turkmenistan who invented his own alphabet and banned all things that were not a giant gold statue of his own head (unverified). It's like that. Do you want that?

Please put your shirt in a drawer for 20 years, and then, if Barack Obama does all the things we want him to do (fix everything, destroy pinkeye, replace all rain clouds with money cannons), some child of the future can find it and wear it under his or her spacesuit as a symbol of dark times overcome—times when everything was broken, times when people had pinkeye.

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The imagery of a world devoid of mild, topical eye disease and wet precipitation...verily, it's just beautiful. I mean, that's why I voted for Obama. Not to mention all the cool t-shirts out there. You just couldn't do that with McCain. Gosh, I'm so hip.