{"id":3671,"date":"2008-11-05T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2008-11-05T21:34:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:34:03","slug":"obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/05\/obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Told ya so<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dodged a bullet on that electorial prediction, though. That would have been a lot<\/em> of beer. At one point during the night Obama was actually at 292, and I was all, like, “Oh shit, you gotta<\/em> win another state. Any state dude, even one no one cares about. How about Nevada? Or a Dakota?”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/div>\n
\"Please<\/a><\/p>\n

Please return to your polling stations to receive your new stickers<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p><\/div>\n

McCain’s speech was all class. I’d like to think that, were McCain elected, the man we saw last night is the man who would serve as president, rather than the stranger we saw on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/div>\n

Driving to work today I noticed that Obama’s promise of unity is already reaching fruition. The two Seattle newspapers–which are often at loggerheads–both came up with the same headline:<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a><\/div>\n

I also noticed that the local McDonald’s had changed it’s marquee overnight:<\/p>\n

\"When<\/a><\/div>\n

Coincidence? OR THE RETURN OF CAMELOT??!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/div>\n

Conversation I just had with Squiggle:<\/p>\n

Me: Who’s the president?<\/p>\n

Squiggle: Obama!<\/p>\n

Me: And who’s the vice-president?<\/p>\n

Son: A pumpkin!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OCTOBER SURPRISE!!<\/p>\n

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Anyway: yay, glad that’s over. Going to bed now. Wake me on January 20th.<\/p>\n

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Told ya so. Dodged a bullet on that electorial prediction, though. That would have been a lot of beer. At one point during the night Obama was actually at 292, and I was all, like, “Oh shit, you gotta win another state. Any state dude, even one no one cares about. How about Nevada? Or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}