Posted on 02/11/2005 1:15:12 PM PST by RockinRye
Don't stop thinking blue
By Kalani Leifer Opinions Columnist Friday, February 11, 2005
So here I am sitting in front of what turns out to be a dismally small 12-inch PowerBook screen, trying my best to figure out what makes me the authority on anything. I’ve been sitting here for hours. And then, as often happens when the what-the-hell-did-I-get-myself-into-this-time feeling enters my head, my oral fixation rears its ugly head. For the past year my chew-toy of choice was my LiveStrong bracelet (which, incidentally, I wore long before the bandwagon got rolling). After a while the novelty of this yellow ring of rubber faded, and I enjoyed a brief hiatus from the bondage of my Freudian fixation.
Then came the red AIDS relief bracelets from dance marathon, replacing the token of support for the fight against one deadly disease with the next. This proved to be a satisfactory bit to alleviate the excruciating pain of my last I-Hum paper — but then I promptly lost it. And yet as soon as I’d freed myself of this trendy $1 charity bracelet, another found its way in between my clenched teeth. This one, though, I think I’ll hold on to.
This new blue bracelet represents the fight against a very different kind of disease (although arguably just as deadly): conservatism. I don’t wear this LiveStrong knock-off, “ThinkBlue — 11/04/08,” because I’m still bitter about last November. I wear it because it’s important for Democrats to look to the future and not become defeatists. So I guess within the confines of my oral-fixation lies the authority I’ve been seeking with which to be a columnist.
In retrospect I understand I was that really aggressive liberal kid when November 2nd approached. You know the type. I had multiple John Kerry pins on my backpack and a poster on my dorm room door (all still there, by the way); I telephoned obviously over-courted Ohioans on Monday and wore the “Beat Bush” Stanford Dems shirt to the polls on that fateful Tuesday; and to top it all off, I actually cried as cautious networks began calling the election late that night.
If I was overzealous before the election, I was anything but Wednesday morning. Well, actually, there was the lull where I foolishly held onto the Ohio contention, but that was short-lived. And then I slipped into the cardinal sin of apathy. To me, the events that transpired during Bush’s first term constituted more than enough cause to replace him. I’d been so thoroughly convinced that for once the Democrats would actually win — I mean, who could possibly vote for a man who misled our country into a war to “fight for freedom abroad” and at the same time endorsed a Constitutional amendment to limit freedom of minorities at home? I guess a little Swift Boat Veterans for Truth can go a long way.
However, as the results began to sink in, I realized that I am not, in fact, ideologically misaligned with America. In truth I am only, albeit drastically, misaligned with 51 percent of the country. The other 48 percent (thank you Nader) reminds me that there is continued support for liberal ideals. There are midterm elections to be won, mayoral races to be run, and countless other local and statewide contests to be contested. So I’ll continue going to Stanford Dems meetings, I’ll keep writing absurdly biased articles and I’ll go on wearing my ThinkBlue bracelet. And I recommend all you progressives do the same. I don’t, however, encourage chewing said bracelets.
Kalani Leifer is a raging conservative who voted for George W. Bush and can’t wait to be drafted. To discuss how to best suppress minorities and ban abortion, write him at kalani08@stanfor.edu.
I actually think he's wrong - his braised leftist attitude _is_ misaligned with a majority of Americans. Not all Dem voters are cracked-up moonbats like this guy.
Exhibit A: No Democrat should have been surprised Kerry lost. He was an underdog running against a wartime incumbent. They can be disappointed, that's natural, but to express sych disbelief is to belie your poor understanding of today's political landscape.
He also starts the column with a pointless 'wowee, how cool am I' paragraph, and ends by repeating the lie about the draft.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Still waiting for an answer.
If I had to guess, I would say the author is a gal. Or did I miss something?
I know you're nervous but you could hit the spell check...
Too bad there's no draft, no matter how many times he lies about it. Yes, lies. Never was any plan to draft, and he knows it, too. Unless of course he wants Charley Rangel to get some power.
"To discuss how to best suppress minorities..."
Actually, write our new Attorney General and Secretary of State about that, they'd be interested in helping.
"and ban abortion,"
Yeah, can't get one of those anymore. A shame, ain't it?
"dismally small 12-inch PowerBook screen"
Hey Kalani - I've got 15 inches!
Bush's oppression of the minority in action. Zzzzzz...
Mac users:
The New Minority.
Still waiting for an answer.
LOL...How about "since I couldn't figure it out, I wrote this article instead".
First - This new blue bracelet represents the fight against a very different kind of disease (although arguably just as deadly): conservatism.
Followed immediately by - I don’t wear this LiveStrong knock-off... because I’m still bitter about last November.
What's funny is that it probably doesn't even register with him.
The waste of my tax dollars pampering these drooling cavemen must be astounding. I'm not too keen on foreign aid, but maybe we can pay the Isrealis to hot-foot it over here with a few bulldozers.
I love the picture, evets.
The lefty idiot can't even add. Even if every non-Bush vote when to Kerry, Bush would still have won an absolute majority.
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