Twenty one months of campaigning and today it's all over but for the votin' and the countin'. The smell of history is in the air. It's wafted north of the border, escaped into the jetstream and can be detected in far flung corners of the globe. It's that heady mix of excitement, hope, and fear which is exactly what you smell when you're walking around Manhattan (similar to but not quite the same as a combination of subway fumes, roasting chestnuts, and hobo urine).
When the United States has an important election as this, with its singularly engaging cast of characters, then the rest of the world has little choice but to get all wrapped up in the anticipation and dread. At least we don't have to stand in line outside a highschool in Kansas for 6 hours.
Today is the day when all the undecided voters have to come up with the goods and face the grim spectre of having nobody at all care about them for at least the next four years.
2 candidates with diametrically opposed views on vital issues, dozens of debates and press interviews, hundreds of think pieces, thousands of hours of TV punditry and still....this motley assortment of lamebrains and pompous, attention seeking, douchebags can't make up their minds on a choice that is virtually black and white.
Today is also the day when the Walmart Moms will weigh in and possibly decide the fate of the free world. The press has recently dicovered this important voting block which I heard described as lower class, under-educated, women who shop a lot at Walmart. Only in America can a group of fat, stupid women who have no problem with wearing stretch terrycloth shorts in public wield such clout. This is obviously why Palin/McCain have yet to throw in the towel.
I'd put a link to a Walmart Woman article or two but I know how that scares off many of my ADD afflicted readers. Admittedly, lots more words with no pictures is a terrifying prospect!!
That being said I simply must post the following link to a short but enlightnening audio clip (no reading required!!) Now back to toasting myself in front of the warm , historical glow of my TV.
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