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One odd thing you get about traveling to flyover states and staying in small towns is a perspective on the americhun. I often stay in Hampton Inns, which give free breakfast in front of a tv in the lobby. Usually the tv is left on CNN all the time, but at the morning trough some yahoo always changes it to FOX News. It's like they're preaching, and when I switch it to something literate (like bbc, cnn, or a cartoon) they get all puffy - but never say anything. If they mutter I ask if they mind and they invariably say no, it's fine.

But today with the obama announcement and gay marriage headlines it's downright funny. I look mighty whitey today, all suited and stuff, so they aren't curbing their disdain as they mutter to each other and the FOX tv news about how gays and obamas are ruining the country. When an indian dude showed up, they all got uncomfortably silent...it's like they weren't sure where he stood - and nobody wants a confrontation. One big black dude shows up - the lobby falls silent and half the whiteys leave.

But hey, I'm sure I'm misreading all this. Racial politics have gone the way of the dinosaur in USia.

So, when they assassinate obama and that Hilary chick has a baby or a period or something, McCain will be president and carry on the success that old white men have led USia to for the last 200+ years. I think that's how it all pans out, according to the flyover perspective.

Notice obama not capitalized, Hilary gets capitalized, but McCain is such a hero that he gets two capitals...he's not just president, he's practically god GOD