Technology + Boredom = Coolness

Apparently some guy figured out where each possible Obama VP candidate was and then looked up charter flights leaving Friday night to where Obama was, and determined that Joe Biden was the VP candidate. That's using technology and boredom creatively.

I am sure there exist meeeellions of blog entries devoted to discuss Biden, and what this pick means. But I want to discuss something else. I want to talk about how exciting it is that Obama didn't choose Hillary. Some might accuse me of wasting words on floccinaucinhilipilification, but there are serious implications here that we need to address. By making the choice of Biden, Obama effectively slammed the door on 20 years of Bushes and Clintons.
For those 1 or maybe 2 readers of this who aren't blood-relatives, I'm 26 years old, which means literally as long as I've been mentally aware of Presidential elections, the winner has been named either Clinton and Bush. I'm sure that is fine, and in some countries it's fairly normal to keep people in power much longer than 4 or 8 years. But the Bush/Clinton flip-flopping was starting to smell an awful lot like a regime. And as the democratic nomination wore down and I didn't know if Obama would beat out Clinton, I felt ...fatigue... towards our Federal government and its inability to right itself when it is screwed up. Thankfully Obama got the democratic nod, but then whispers started to appear that Hillary might get the VP spot. I swore up an down that Obama wouldn't do this, not just because I loathe that harlot...I mean woman...but also because surely he wouldn't reward her for making the democratic primary last so long? And then I worried, what if he does pick Clinton for his VP, and then he gets assassinated? It's not an unheard of scenario. My personal favorite president, T Roosevelt, became president by backing into the spot. My mind raced with fear, what if Hillary does the same? What if she's then reelected 4 years later and we get 8 MORE years of Clinton?

Thankfully Obama proved me right, and didn't choose Clinton as his VP choice. We'll get at least a 4 year break from the Bush/Clinton yo-yo. Maybe even 8 years, because if Obama is elected president, then surely he'll be the democratic candidate in 2012. And by then Mrs. Clinton may not be in a position to make a run for the White House. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Don't get me wrong. I want a woman to be president, and I want it to happen during my daughter's formative years so she can see that there is no job in America for which a woman is unqualified. But I just don't want that woman President to be Mrs. Clinton.