So, I took a couple of days off of blogging in order to regain both my good humor and catch up on sleep. This weekend was a amazing success with over 25,000 doors knocked on just out of the SEIU office. So, today is the day, and I am incredibly anxious to get it over with and get straight to results. Greetings and salutations to all the OH, TX, VT, and RI Obama volunteers out there today getting the people to the polls! Here, in the District, we will be celebrating victory (hope hope) tonight at the hawk and dove and busboys and poets.
A quick word about the recent shift in Obama coverage; evidently, last week's SNL sketch has shamed news outlets into taking a harder line on Barack. As much as I welcome media scrutiny of all candidates, I don't think the criticism of the press as blatantly biased towards one side or another is all that convincing. I firmly believe that the press is just like your fearless blogger was over the past 2 days, i.e. too lazy to tell their own version of events. Instead, they buy into the narrative (bush=dumb gore=boring hilary=shrew obama=lacks) which then acts as a shorthand, allowing them not to so much tell, as to retell, the same hackneyed stories.
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