I’ve Done Something Possibly Suicidal

I’ve started a new blog called “If He Does Nothing Else… . What’s wrong with me? I guess I don’t have enough work to do. Here’s how I’m explaining it:

This is a blog that’s going to chronicle what Barack Obama does right. I started it because I know, though it’s only January 19th as I write this, that he’ll disappoint people and disillusion them and make them cry salty tears of regret and rage. The idea for it came when he got elected. I thought, “If he does nothing else, he’s finally broken the color barrier for the presidency of the United States.”

And then, amid murmurs of pre-disappointment disappointment, during the Holder confirmation hearings, I thought, “If he does nothing else, he nominated a man who said publicly that waterboarding is torture.”

And I realized: Someone needs to say this every day because people are going to be crapping all over him. So every day I’m going to say one good thing that Barack Obama is doing to remind us why we voted for him and not John McCain, and why it’s better to have Democrats in power than Republicans.

I hope you join me. I’m guessing tomorrow he’ll upset people by hugging Rick Warren or something, so let’s focus on the positive. It’s a blog of hope. Hope, godammn it!

I’m hoping it’ll turn into something more — a commentary on national politics, which I follow with great delight and disgust simultaneously. I suspect in the weeklong hormonal siege before my period (OMG! TMI!), I won’t be blogging there as often, but it should be fun.

liz | 11:25 AM | Uncategorized