So Barack Obama wins in a total landslide yesterday. Every borderline republican and aisle sitter voted for Barack. McCain never had a chance. I don’t like the way the republicans ran a fear mongering campaign anyway, but that doesn’t really matter now. Like I told Kelly right before the coverage started, I just hope who ever wins, makes some changes for the good. It doesn’t matter who I voted for, so I won’t say, let’s just say I voted for the better candidate. I thought both candidates gave good speeches last night after the results. I actually thought McCain looked better than he has in months as far as how he carried himself. I wonder if the race would have been different if that was the guy that ran over the past few months.

The one thing that bothers me is the way my conservative friends are reacting to McCain losing. There are a couple of people that I know, that hope the country falls to shit…well, into a bigger pile of shit then it already is in, just so they can say “I told you so” about Obama. Think about that. That’s fucked up. I think some of it is the disappointment of their guy losing, so fresh in their minds, but still….that’s just fucked up.

On a lighter note, both local proposals 1 and 2 passed yesterday which is great. I voted YES on both. The first is the use of medicinal marijuana. Michigan will be the 14th state to legalize it’s use for medicinal purposes. Good for us. I don’t smoke it, but hey, if it gives some people relief for a short time of whatever pains them constantly, then more power to em. There are more addicting, legal narcotic pain pills available now anyway. Let the old people get high and enjoy what time they have left.

The second proposal was for stem cell research. This one bugged me because of the anti prop 2 campaign that was going on which was simply full of lies. The committee that ran the campaign made it all about our taxes increasing to fund this “new” research which was not that case at all. As a matter of fact, the bill had nothing to do with funding. It was about using currently discarded embryos for research instead of incinerating them. Not about making more, or how we pay for the research, but that’s how the anti 2 campaign was run. Well they lost, and I’m glad.

The whole election coverage day was fun to watch. I like that shit.