Top 10 Reasons to Celebrate a (likely) Obama Victory

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 2:05 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 02:05

Okay I'm bored and up late so I thought of making a top ten list of reasons why anyone--though namely myself--should be glad for an Obama victory. Yes I am assuming Obama wins, I see absolutely no reason why we should feel like we'll lose this (I do doubt the claims of complacency and kind of ignore the whining about whether ppl will show up to vote), and it does make things simpler. So without further adieu, here's my ten reasons in descending order. To make it interesting, I am not including the obvious stuff: 4 years without a GOPer in the White House and the reduction of stress involved, as well as hopefully improving the country and our standing in the world.

Note that this is satirical and probably not a diary by some people's standards, but hey it's more than 3 paragraphs and it's at an hour unlikely to bounce too many things off the list.

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Which one's your top reason of those I gave?

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Which one's your top reason of those I gave?

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ATTN College Students: Driver's License may NOT be adequate ID!

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 2:13 AM PDT

2008/10/23 · 02:13

I am a college student myself registered to vote where I go to school (originally from Chicago, school is downstate so I am definitely out of my home district). I am planning on doing early voting but regardless, I thought it smart to look up any requirements on the county's website while making sure I was listed as registered. Well I did find something that may save me a LOT of time, especially considering I have to walk a good distance to cast my vote. I really hate asking this since it sounds desperate but I feel this is one instance where it's imperative: please rec this and spread the word outside the website!

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 3:11 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 15:11

Hey kiddies! Uncle Ronin is here out of boredom to write a non-diary for you. Since we are starting to get inundated with lots of non-diaries, and I sadly have little else to contribute, I thought I could do everyone a favor and just make one big non-diary on all the non-diary topics all at once. That way, I say what every non-diarist wants to say on all topics in one place for everyone's convenience and so I don't have to read the same crap all day. And sorry for the caps, but hey they make things much more fun don't they?

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Choose a spirit if you could use a drink

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Choose a spirit if you could use a drink

Rum

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Vodka

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Whisky

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Gin

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Tequila

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Plain beer, thanks

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Wine to go with the whine

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Just a soda, I don't drink

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Sorry for repeat: Female Obama canvasser assaulted

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 9:14 PM PDT

2008/10/20 · 21:14

Sorry it's a short diary, it's a slightly older story but I didn't see it at all on here the last few days. Apparently a woman from Chicago was canvassing in Wisconsin and said she was assaulted by a man whose house she went to on Saturday (10/18). But for her efforts she was contacted personally by Barack Obama himself!

[Correction : apparently this was diaried and rec listed already here over the weekend, so I apologize. However there are a few new links in this that weren't in that one and some comments noted that not everyone may have seen it. So all you late night folks who missed it the first time, here you go]

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 8:39 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 08:39

Hey everyone. Not a large diary but thought I thought this may be good since today is our bi-weekly freak-out day. Yeah we saw the four point drop in today's R2K poll (Thursday numbers, not the three-day average).

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If/When we win on Nov. 4th, how will you celebrate?

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If/When we win on Nov. 4th, how will you celebrate?

Champagne or otherwise drinking alcohol

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Fireworks

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Dancing in the streets

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Cheering while watching MSNBC

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Watching Faux Noise to watch those hacks suffer

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Checking out Redstate and/or the Freepers to relish in Schadenfreude

8 votes

Crying out of joy and released tensions and anxiety

47 votes

Kissing your love

15 votes

Eating Pie

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Straight man's thoughts on friends on National Coming Out Day

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 10:57 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 22:57

This probably won't be a long diary, so apologies in advance if it's less than substantial. I have been reading all of the coming out stories on here throughout the day and it reminded me of my experiences with those close to me that are LGBT (or GLBT, which is the most used convention?). Even though I wouldn't consider anything except heterosexual, I do like to consider myself someone very supportive of those who are not. Honestly this diary is not going to be all that interesting, just a reflection of a few experiences that ultimately aren't dramatic or even heart-warming really (at least I don't think so). Yeah I know not really something one should say about one's own diary.

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 10:09 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 10:09

If anyone read my diary a few days ago about me starting to get involved in the campaign, you may have came across one of my comments in there about my school paper. If not, here's a synopsis of the situation.

My school paper (The Daily Illini, for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for the first two weeks of this semester was spent mostly talking of Barack Obama--almost always negatively, sometimes substantive sometimes not--but barely a word of John McCain, either good or bad. I mentioned it on here and was encouraged to write to the paper about it. So I did. Well, it got published yesterday!

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 1:02 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 13:02

Disclaimer time: the diary is ranting, yes I am aware. My point is that you can use your frustrations to something more positive, and I imagine there has to be SOMETHING you can do. If you can't get that out of what I'm saying, then honestly you need to calm down and try again. I am NOT insinuating that none of the more concerned (non-troll) Kossacks are doing anything else constructive today or before/after. Just stating the hand-wringing isn't the best way in my opinion to vent, and why. Rhetoric may be sharp, just my style of offense, so sorry.

What are YOU doing that's constructive and actually benefits us? No I'm serious, what exactly are you doing about it? Crying over what the majority of us expected with the understanding that it'll taper off like always? Posting useless arm-flailing diaries--perhaps with all caps on the title or even a full diary with single-statement paragraphs--that do nothing but distract us while we tell you all to calm the f**k down?

I don't mean this to be belittling or confrontational at all. However, if that does become the case, then perhaps it'll be useful to hear the frustrations from the side that actually has remained calm.

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 5:07 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 17:07

Hello everyone. This diary probably won't be the most substantive (not like most are on Fridays, esp. while Palin is part of the news-cycle, right?) but as a newbie to the whole election thing what better place to go than here?

Anyway after keeping up with the RNC and getting a load of the big speeches and the lovely propaganda piece we were treated to yesterday, I decided that there is too much at stake and I refuse to let there be 4 more years of this crap. I've no money to donate (hard enough just getting by as a college student in today's economy) so I decided to join a student group at my school affiliated with the campaign to volunteer. Still receiving information but I believe the focus will be on voters in Indiana, like registration drives and calling voters (I go to the University of Illinois, so my state's no toss-up).

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 10:35 AM PDT

2008/07/03 · 10:35

(Quick return from the temporary leave of absence to make this announcement with my reasons, will be kept short.)

Like many of you, I joined the FISA group MyBo (I don't need to show the link, do I?) when it was starting to be viral. Last night however, I made a fateful decision: I withdrew my membership from the group. [Sounds of many gasps can be heard.] Now why would I do a thing like that? Well let me tell you.

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 4:31 AM PDT

2008/07/01 · 04:31

Yeah I suppose this is a temporary GBCW diary or whatever it's called. But don't worry, I'll leave a tip jar so you can flog it as you wish, no sense in you having to go out of your way to find one and link to it. But before labeling me as a troll at least look at my (short) history here and see that I tried being a member of this community. So without further adieu, this is why I'm saying goodbye until the DNC convention in August, and yes the number 16 has something to do with it if you care to read this all the way through.

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Monday June 30, 2008 · 3:23 AM PDT

2008/06/30 · 03:23

This is sort of a response to this diary which, while making some good points, is in my opinion riddled with fallacies and is based neither on political reality or practical sense.

Before I begin, let it be clear that I refuse to discuss the FISA issue at all beyond referring to the opinions here on it (500+ diaries on it, take your pick, I already stated elsewhere that I refuse to discuss it any further as it has grown to the extent of being a virus here). This helps to give some space to those of us who feel that it has passed the point of diminishing returns, and to help make a more general case for my argument. That is to say, I intend my thesis to be applicable regardless of the office, candidate and the year.

Let me note that I am neither an apologist for Obama nor someone who is okay with giving telecoms immunity or the further degradation of our liberties (as if Bush didn't ruin them to the point where you can barely tell....), but I damn well am someone who is realistic and who honestly am very good at focusing more on the integral picture than the differential one.

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