Timothy Horrigan © 2009
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.
I am not sure what will be on this page. I used to have an "Anti Bush" page so I may as well have a Pro Obama page.
BarackObama.com (which evidently will keep going post-inauguration)
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."
Obama's August 31, 2010 announcement: the War in Iraq is (pretty much) finally over
[September
9, 2009] I have made some
T shirts etc. inspired by the political events of the summer of 2009:
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