[ If Obama Lost ]

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I’m just saying that every time somebody says the math proves Obama can’t lose, I get ready to vomit blood, because Idiot American somehow always manages to get left out of the math. Which leaves me wondering what it would feel like if he not only lost, but got trounced. If the same Idiot America hive mind that rallied behind Bush II was just quietly, in the absence of a candidate they actually liked, waiting to rise up and defeat one they wouldn’t allow in their homes.

If he had to give a concession speech, after everything he’s said and done, and it had to be a corker anyway. If he had to congratulate President-Elect McCain on running a tough but fair campaign, and pledge to work with him and VP-Elect Palin on moving America forward. If he had to go back to the Senate like Kerry. If we had to hear the news show dimwits give their trenchant analysis of McCain’s stunning, come-from-behind win, and the idea that in times of crisis, Americans really do put their faith in conservative stand-bys. If we had to well up at Keith Olbermann’s rhetorically rousing Countdown salute to “Senator Obama, who changed the face of modern electoral politics in the country, a change that was long in coming; the citizens of this great nation owe you a debt of gratitude. Senator Obama, I join them in saluting you, sir.”

If the only solace was, again, in bitter laughs from Onion headlines and Daily Show and Colbert Report bits. If we had to read infinite blog posts and screeds, another round of Urban Archipelagos and Fuck the Souths to make everyone feel even worse. If we had to listen to all the sideline politicos rant in bars about where it all went wrong. If there wasn’t another black candidate for decades because the tacit understanding was that he lost because we just couldn’t get past the race thing. If the Bush War went on another 20 years. If the recession became a depression. If John McCain became President of the United States.