no, i’m not campaigning for him… yet

I feel like myspace, facebook all that social networking shit is p-l-a-y-e-d now that I can login to mybarackobama.com. It’s cool – you don’t have to try too hard to impress people with your exhaustive “interests” list, because you’re already impressing people with your political gumption, simply by being there.
Added bonus – hooking up with the liberal and righteous via political networking sites is what’s hot in ’07.
I feel like Barack Obama is the Bill Clinton of 2008: he’s a young hot smart and inventive dude who’s going to mobilize/reenergize a base that has been disenfranchised, disgusted and depressed for eight of the longest years in my lifetime. I remember attending rallies for Clinton in ’92, not yet old enough to vote but wishing I was, because I could feel the energy and hope crackling in the air as he delivered a speech envisioning a better country. (And this was in an airport hangar belonging to the FE Warren Air Force Base in crimson-ass Wyoming… can’t imagine what it was like in Dem states.) I’m a crowd-responder, yes, I fare best at parties where everyone’s dancing, but with Obama, it feels like that again. Like I can almost remember what a country with a decent leader is like. A drop on the tongue during a drought.