Post Election News

Recap
The Democrats won back the House of Representatives. The Democrats have won in convincing fashion, with 33 more members than the Republicans in the House. The senate comes down to the Virginia race, Jim "I hate women" Webb vs George "Macaca" Allen. The Democrats have 50 senators planning to caucus with them, while the Republicans have 49 (Vice President Dick Cheney would break any ties were Allen to win and make it a 50-50 senate).

As of right now, Jim Webb is leading, but there could very well be a recount. A recount couldn't start until the election was certified, which can't happen for at least 10 days. In Maryland, Ben Cardin won the senate seat and Martin O'Malley is the next governor. Gerard Giblin got his 1%.

Coverage of the Coverage
After Hillary Clinton won her election, she came up on stage to speak. NBC's Chris Matthews began berate her body language, at one point describing her clapping as "Chinese." What is this, the 1860s? Since when does someone use "Chinese" as an insult? You really jewed that one up Chris.

Matthews went back and forth between thoughtful reporting of female and black candidates and demeaning commentary. Evidently George Allen should've stayed home with his pretty wife and Ann Northup is too nice to have lost, among many other comments. But otherwise, I actually liked his coverage with Keith Olberman.

My son's missing, maybe Mark Foley raped him
One CNN anchor claimed that a woman from Minnesota used her missing 11-year old son against the Mark Foley scandal while running for office. I don't know what it means either, but I hope it was a mischaracterization of her campaign, because otherwise that's fucked up.

So Long but not Goodbye
Harold Ford lost the election to become a senator from Tennessee. In defeat, he gave a very moving speech, at times coming to the brink of tears. It reminded me of Al Gore's concession speech, although not with the same stakes on the line. Most people believe that Harold Ford will be back, I'll go further. I was saying in 2000 to anyone who would listen to me, and I'll repeat it here: Harold Ford will be President of the United States someday (barring scandal).

Obama in '08?
I constantly go back and forth over whether or not Barack Hussein Obama can win the presidency in 2008. The question is more than simply: is America too racist to vote for a black candidate? Obama is the son of an immigrant. And his name rhymes with Iraq Hussein Osama! I mean, that's not good. The question of race is also more specific. It's based on what a few people would do in a small number of states who would otherwise vote Democrat.

But Obama seems invincible. He answers every question with such ease, as opposed to Hillary Clinton or Harry Reid who both stumble over even the easiest questions. I contend that Obama could kill 3 people, eat parts of them, and still find a way to get out of it and make you like him more.

Good Day for the Jews
The Jews had a good election day. Ben Cardin won his senate election in Maryland. Maryland, the only state (maybe New York) that could have a black guy running against a Jew for SENATE, not just Register of Wills or some shit. And as expected, black people voted for the Jew and the black guy recieved votes almost exculsively from white gentiles, of course. Maybe now you see how important the issue of Iraq is here. Those things pale in comparison.

Bernie Sanders, a New York Jew Socialist, won a senate seat from Vermont. That's Vermont, where being a Socialist is the least of those concerns.

George Allen appears headed towards a loss. Whew. Now that the election is over I can say that he's not Jewish at all. When someone is asking you about your Jewish roots and you tell them to "stop making aspersions," you are not Jewish, you are an anti-Semite.

Representation?
Keith Ellison become the first Muslim ever elected to Congress. Deval Patrick became the second black person to be elected governor. Nancy Pelosi will be the first woman to be Speaker of the House. This is progress? It better represents how far American has to go in breaking down the system of patriarchal white (predominantly Christian) supremacy.

Bye Bye Rummie
George Bush was defensive and a bit shaken while answering questions today during his press conference. He acknowledged the Donald Rumsfeld resigned from his post as Secretary of Defense.

Recap of the Recap
All in all, so far, this is fucking awesome.