Obama-nation

The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress

The great thing about satire, or humor in general, is that the joke is already rooted in truth. The mainstream message last night about the election was the "historic event" and the "momentous victory" that is Barack Obama becoming the 44th president. That's the story that we (well, 52 percent of us, anyway) apparently wanted to hear. That's the story that was supposed to make us feel all warm inside, like we just gulped a cup of hot chocolate (no pun intended).
But what is the reality? The economy, nationally and globally, is in ruins. We are fighting two wars and neither has a true end in sight. The healthcare system is a wreck and our educational system is always in need of an overhaul.
Every vote that was cast for Obama had a reason behind it -- straight-ticket Democrat, McCain/Palin scares the shit out of me, The Bush/Rove Republicans screwed it up so give the Dems a chance, minorites voting for an African-American, I meant to vote for someone else but I am too stupid to read the ballot properly, or even the idealistic Change We Can Believe In. Or maybe bits and pieces of some or all of the above. Or maybe, for a certain percentage of the population, it just came down to this: "Everything is fucked. We might as well give the black guy a chance."