Election 2008: You Betcha!
By this time next week Americans will have secured a new leader and our fingernails will be well on their way to growing back. After a long road of one of the most anticipated and historical races of our time we will finally be done with all the hoopla! Hopefully the majority of us will be content and free of a maverick cabinet, but most importantly we will finally have a new President.
This rollercoaster race has ignited interest of celebrity-like proportions. The candidates seem to have spent more time on the cover of celebrity mags and appearing on Entertainment Tonight than in the likes of Time magazine. Furthermore, The notion that two women and an African American man have come so close to the presidency is something many of us only imagined could be part of a Disney straight- to-video collection or a washed up actors comeback film. So as for surpassing low expectations in the 21st century Americans have more than outdone themselves, and boast notable progress.
We have been exposed to phrases that will forever be etched in our brains, or at least until we get over it. Such classics as "mavericks", "you can put lipstick on a pig and it is still a pig", "Joe Six-Pack", "Joe-The-Plumber" (who knew Joes were so popular), "Time for Change", "You betcha". We've learned that accusing someone of being Muslim shouldn't in fact be an accusation. We've had to decipher the difference between a woman who was nominated to attract a demographic and a woman that actually worked to earn 18million cracks in the glass ceiling (the one that allowed the first woman to be nominated in the first place). But perhaps most important of all, SNL has been given an opportunity to be funny again....
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