Obama is in office! My feeling of excitement and hope for the future is balanced by my innate distrust of politics in general and presidential politics most of all. My roommate is watching an episode of South Park right now and they showed McCain and Obama after the election going backstage and high-fiving each other: "That was close, we were almost tied there for a minute." And even though I find South Park too puerile to take in more than small doses, there may be a little truth to that. As dramatic and inspiring as Obama's rise has been I'm too cynical to believe someone gets to the top of our fucked-up political landscape without the assistance and conspiracy of very questionable people and powers. But for the moment I'm with the many others who think this could truly be the beginning of a new, better epoch for our country. I like what he said in his inauguration speech about how we won't apologize for the way we live, since white American guilt is so rampant here in Portland. I like when he talked about a person whose parents may not have been served in a restaurant 50 years ago now taking the sacred oath to protect the country. Although I think it's a little weird how much he talked about fighting and defeating our enemies, since one of the best things he's always had going for him is that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.
I just saw a clip of a new cast member on SNL doing an impression of irrelevant hag Ann Coulter on Weekend Update. Is Coulter for real? I mean, does she actually believe the shit she talks, or is she just cashing in on controversy?
Front page news today: Sam Adams, our newly anointed gay mayor here in Portland (pictured above), is embroiled in some scandal over an 18 year old male assistant he now admits he had a sexual relationship with after denying it previously. I guess he's going to be kind of our local, gay Bill Clinton. Funny thing is I remember Jill Freeman predicting this would happen a YEAR ago when I worked in the Dept. of Comm at PSU. My reaction, of course, is who cares? I am staunchly uninterested in the sex lives of politicians, local or otherwise. Let's talk about his ability to govern the city and leave it at that.
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