And he macked his way into our countries collective hearts. Go Obama.
At McCain’s concessions speech we saw the real reason Obama won — McCain gave a very classy and well spoken concession speech. The moment he mentioned Obama’s name, the crowd started booing. This has been the theme of that entire campaign — negativity, booing, jeering, hatred, fear, lying.
Obama had a positive message. He didn’t fall for the bait of getting pulled down into the mud slinging, and responding to baseless attacks. He stayed classy, stayed optimistic, and that is what Americans are attracted to. Not the scare tactics we were forced to endure for 8 years with Bush, that the McCain campaign tried to push on us even more. Fear will only get you so far, and when we’re offered an optimistic view of the future, we will want to take that path.
Let’s hope our image around the world is restored, our economy looks better, and most importantly that Obama can succeed where Bush double-talked the most, and failed the worst — bipartisanship. I think Obama man has what it takes to make bipartisan politics work, and hope he does something big to show that to Americans.
I also want to thank George Bush — without your help, this could have never happened.
It’s a bit too late to be posting this, but if somehow Obama is able to pull off some amazing post-super Tuesday win, this video here really shows why he is so infinitely superior to Hillary, who to me is just George Bush in women’s clothing. Yes… Hillary is the devil, and to be quite honest, if she is who the Democrats decide to run for president, I will be very tempted to vote Republican, regardless of who they run… and if they run McCain, then no way is Hillary getting my vote.
Also, I want to give some props to Apple and the awesomeness of Time Machine. After about 24 hours of running Disk Utility trying to repair my disk, due to numerous files that magically became unlinked (e.g., deleted), I gave up and popped in my Leopard DVD, and hopped into Time Machine restore mode, which was able to get all of my files back in place and working with really no difficulty at all — except the Mail had to re-index my email or something, but that’s fine with me. Everything else is running smoothly.
I just really wish that Apple would finally ditch crappy HFS and go ahead with ZFS, so that I wouldn’t have had this issue in the first place.
Also, some side props to SuperDuper, which allowed me to boot into a working copy of OS X, from my separate functioning backup disk — something Time Machine does not allow. I also found out today that SuperDuper is now 10.5 compatible… not entirely sure how, but the release notes say so!
