Oh, Yes, Obama! Yes, We Can! Yes, We Did Will Do!

Timothy Horrigan © 2009-2012

Even though I worked very hard to get him elected, I still find it hard to believe that Barack Obama is President. I am used to having idiots like George W. Bush running the country. I am used to my side, which is usually the socalled "Left", being out of power. I am used to the Left being regarded as a fringe group which cannot speak for itself (and the Left is still regarded that way by some: Rush Limbaugh for example is still making a good living setting up and burning down his leftist straw men.)

I have many great memories of Election Day 2008, but perhaps the greatest came around 9pm that night, when it was obvious that Obama had won. I was at a party at a little bar in downtown Dover, NH and a crowd of high school aged volunteers were outside the window looking in and chanting "Obama! Obama!", like Christmas carolers a month too early. I felt like telling them that it usually isn't like this, that usually the good guy loses— but then I realized that maybe it can always be like this. (They were allowed into the party, by way: it was an all-ages event.)

I actually went to college with Barack Obama. He is a few years younger than me, and a President being younger than me is a milestone in my life. I knew him a little: he was a quiet guy who studied a lot and partied a little. I have seen him drinking and even smoking. My novel The Forgotten Liars is set on the Columbia campus the same time the future President was there, though none of the characters are based on him.

• Two citzens who are running (semi-)seriously against President Obama for the 2012 Democratic nomination:
  

• Darcy G. Richardson of Jacksonville, Florida

• John Wolfe, Jr. of Chattanooga

• Other Democratic candidates:

  
  

  • Aldous C. Tyler

  • Bob Greene

  • John Haywood

  • Robert Jordan

  • Ed Cowan

  • Bob Ely

  • Cornelius Edward O'Connor

  [Dec. 29,  2011] I have put up pages about the 2008 and 2012 "Lesser Known Candidates" forums at  the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.  In 2012, all the Democratic challengers to President Obama are lesser-known.  One of them,  John Wolfe, is a pretty good candidate, but I am still In for Obama!

See Also:

• December 15, 2011: "The Final March From Iraq"

• November 25, 2011: the Birthers Implicate Me in Obama's Conspiracy!

• President Obama's July 31, 2011 debt-agreement announcements

• My July 29, 2011 statement on the debt ceiling crisis

• President Obama's May 1, 2011 announcement: Osama bin Laden is dead.

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• President Obama's speech at a memorial for the victims of the January 2011 Tucson shootings

• January 22, 2012: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords resigns from Congress
  

• BarackObama.com

• President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address

• President Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address

• Obama's February 24, 2009 address to Congress

• White House web site

• My testimony against a federal constitutional convention

• President Obama's May 8, 2008 CBS 60 Minutes interview

• My 2008 Presidential Election Page

• My 2012 Presidential Election Page

• My own 2008 candidacy for New Hampshire State House of Representatives

• My February 10, 2007 DailyKos posting, about a racist blogger who attacked Senator Obama

• My November 25, 2009 Daily Kos posting, mocking "Birthers" by producing an "unquestionably authentic" Kenyan birth certificate for Jesus Christ

• My December 29, 2007 letter to Foster's Daily Democrat defending him against an unfair and oddly juxtaposed news story.

• Obama's eeriely prophetic October 2, 2002 anti-war speech where he predicts "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda."

• Joe Biden's June 2006 appearance in Dover, NH

• The very unofficial "Obama Girl" campaign tune

• Obama's July 29, 2010 announcement: he and the First Lady are not attending Chelsea Clinton's wedding

• Obama's August 31, 2010 announcement: the War in Iraq is (pretty much) finally over

• State Rep. Harry Accornero accuses President Obama of treason

• Wayne Allyn Root's "Root for America" blog. Wayne Root is the "other" Presidential candidate from Columbia College's class of 1983. He now says: "I was Barack Obama's college classmate at Columbia University, Class of '83. We were both Pre Law and Political Science majors (although strangely, I never met him, saw him, or even heard of him.)" Even though he didn't know Obama, Root has become obsessed with Obama in recent years, and has made some very pointed anti-Obama comments such as:

  • January 31, 2011: "What Will Obama Do if Egyptian-Style Crisis, Unrest & Revolt Hits America?" (He makes some good points, even though he made the mistake of making some easily verifiable factual claims which didn't check out.)

  • January 24, 2011: "The Obama Great Depression: Why There Will Be No Jobs." (Root fancies himself as a capitalist, and he does run a successful business— but he made his fortune from sports betting. He creates no wealth and is no capitalist: he is basically a parasite on the most socialistic and heavily regulated industry around, i.e. professional sports.)

  • July 21,2010: "The REAL Obama Agenda- Direct From His Columbia University Classmate" (including a lurid depiction of the Columbia student body's reaction to the day President Reagan was shot in March 1981.)

  • An excerpt from the "Morning in America" chapter of my novel, about the day Reagan was shot. I was inspired to post it as a response to Root's lurid tale.