Maybe this is crazy but I feel that we are on the cusp of some kind of wonderful.  Call me the perennial optimist but I believe the struggles that America is facing are just the precursor to a greater shift in consciousness. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.  We want more meaning from life, not more things.

So it may be that we are still inundated with the same negative campaign advertisements, same negative discourse amongst pundits or negativity in our own backyards but we cannot deny the fact that there has been an influx of hope into our psyche.  We will still have our own opinion about the current political climate, but we are changed because the general conversation has changed.

Sitting in the front seat of history, watching the alteration of a nation’s landscape and ideology has brought me to tears.  From this point forward a person of color or a woman can now plausibly run for the highest office of our land.  This means that I can now look at my daughter and honestly tell her that she too can run for President.  How huge is that?  How can it not make you well up?

For the first time in history gay couples are being legally recognized as married couples.  So maybe it’s only in a couple of states, but come on … in the same year that we have a African American man and a woman run for President and then another woman for Vice President? At a time when we are demanding more innovation in the fight against global warming?  This is not Obama, this is not McCain.  This time it’s the American people speaking here.

And despite the outcome on November 4th, I can still say that our country has evolved.  It’s crazy and it’s beautiful to watch and it makes me proud.

It’s precisely 10:24 pm on a Wednesday evening and I am pilfering through today’s top news stories which include:

1. Palin and her $150k new wardrobe.
2. Battle of the Robo-calls.
3. Most Californians oppose Gay marriage.

I’ve got to tell you that this election cycle is killing me.  Literally, it’s killing me.  Every time I hear that the polls are “within a margin of error” I want to eat 5 Big Macs so I can die sooner and be put out of my misery.  Really.  Some of my fellow Americans are threatening to leave Earth if a certain someone get’s elected.  Leave Earth … can we do that? Where do I reserve my seat? Should I pack for hot or cold weather?

God, there really aren’t enough antacids to help me through the next two weeks. I can’t take another article about Sarah Palin’s red shoes or how her flag pin is as large as a child’s fist.  Can’t you do something about this?  And please, with all due respect, I don’t need something like an economic crisis or a Madonna and Guy Ritchie divorce to get my mind off of the election. Forget that. I know you think you’re doing us a favor by creating a diversion but what we really need is to stop feeling like we are on the verge of throwing up every time a new poll comes out.

I know, I am sounding a bit hysterical but I am starting to think Anderson Cooper and Chuck Todd are my best friends. Larry King is beginning to look like Mr. Burns and there is more and more speculation mounting about James Carville’s ethnicity. Things are getting so dismal around here that Jon Stewart has resorted to doing impressions of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rathers. Have we no shame?

Are you there God?  Are you listening?  Can you please make it Nov. 5th already? I’ve provided this video as tutorial on how you might go about altering time:

I know you are busy, but any attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.  Both Joe the Plumber and Joe the Senator would be ecstatic about it. Not to mention my gastroenterologist, who would be thrilled to stop hearing from me.

God, when you really think about it, if we fast forwarded two weeks into the future we probably wouldn’t be missing out on too much.  Project Runway’s season finale is over, we are not in an American Idol cycle and the From G’s to Gents season restarts pretty much every two weeks anyway.  We can Tivo everything else.  Honest.

I’m just asking you to take it into consideration.

Thanks for listening,

Bacon

P.S.  And since I have your ear … can we put this whole gay marriage issue to bed?

“People are gonna be who they’re gonna be. And we need to learn to love them for who they are and let them love who they want to love.”  ~ E.D.

I’m not asking to take the guns away, I’m just asking you to give everyone equal opportunity to be miserable.