What I want
I don’t want Obama to be President. I don’t want McCain to be President.
I don’t want McCain to be President, but I really don’t want Obama to be President.
It’s clear that at best, I will get what I don’t want, and if the pundits are right, I’m likely to get what I really don’t want.
Enough of what I don’t want. What do I want?
I want politicians to stop leaving robot voice-mails for me and to stop calling my house every five minutes. I want to be done seeing political ads on TV and lawn signs on lawns. I want the news to go back to telling me about something — anything — less annoying than the political campaign … a return to reporting on the latest multiple homicides would do nicely, thank you very much. I want friends I mostly like to stop talking about politics, so I can go back to mostly liking them again. I want politics to stop being the center of existence.
These are modest wants, I admit. The more ambitious ones are beyond plausible, so why bother? I mean, I really want the next President, and the citizenry, to protect and defend the Constitution and individual rights and to be at least vaguely aware and supportive of the nation’s founding principles and the notion of limited government. What I really, really want, is for the government to be less powerful and less important in our lives, to the point that we don’t all care much who becomes President. But that won’t happen no matter who wins. So I’ll have to settle. That’s politics, I guess.
What I want, then — and this might not be likely, either — is for the country to get through the next four years with a minimal amount of lasting damage.
Also, I wouldn’t mind a pizza.
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I couldn’t agree more with the part of your post about wanting pizza… oh… and also about wanting this election to be over already!
I have pizza.
Right now, I want a drink. And a president I don’t hate. But mostly a drink.
I have a drink. I want Al Franken not to have won a Senate seat . . . oh well. I also want Goldwater Conservatives to be a real voting block.