Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Think Blue

Today is Election Day 2008.  If you haven’t done so already, VOTE!!

If you’re in Washington, I urge you to support whichever of the candidates and measures displayed over on my sidebar are on the ballot in your particular jurisdiction.  In particular, Governor Gregoire and Peter Goldmark are in tight races ... they need every vote they can get.  If you’re in the WA-08 Congressional District, I urgently demand that you cast your vote for Darcy Burner.  And if you’re across the mountains in WA-04, you’ll find that George Fearing will be a vastly better Congressman for your CD than not-even-close-to-being-a-Doc Hastings (please don’t think of that as damning George with faint praise).

Soon after the bitter disappointment of the last presidential election, when my fellow Americans somehow saw fit to retain the disastrously horrid Bush malAdministration, and to permit a Republican-led House and Senate to aid-and-abet their destruction of our great land, I came across a website selling Think Blue wristbands.  I bought one for myself, and have been wearing it ever since.  It looks something like this:

Actually, my wristband is an “enhanced” version of the one in the picture.  Along with Think Blue, it displays the dates of the 2006 election—11/07/2006, when we took back control of both houses of the federal legislature—and the 2008 election—11/04/2008, when we take back the executive branch and solidify our majorities in the Senate and the House.  It also shows the website that sold these wristbands (thinkbluedems.com), which I’m sorry to report is no longer in existence.  For that matter, neither is its successor website, thinkblue2008.com.

It’s exciting as all hell that the message of that wristband is about to be fulfilled.  In early 2005, I don’t think any of us thought this result would be in sight on this day.  But now that its mission has come to a happy ending, I’m in a quandary.

What do I do with my wristband?

Do I now simply remove it and drop it in the trash with a happy sigh about a mission well accomplished?  Do I continue to wear it, even though its message is, in a sense, no longer relevant?  Do I frame it and hang it in some place of honor?  Do I offer it as a souvenir on eBay?

Suggestions are welcome.  In the meantime, I suppose I need to take in some nourishment as a stomach coating, in preparation for a night of celebration and happiness!

[UPDATE]

DailyKos CHEERS & JEERS maven Bill in Portland Maine, who also proudly wears a Think Blue wristband, has a suggestion that seems quite reasonable:

Just tack it to a wall.

Because it’s shaped like an ‘O’ so it’s got at least 4 years of life left in it and probably eight.

Amazing how those wristbands knew who would be the next president.  Spooky!