In other words: if a guy stands up and says: I want to be reasonable. We need to actually work on stuff instead of trying to ‘win’, and here’s a bunch of examples of that. And the response to this plea is the same sort of idiotic point-scoring and grandstanding — then I don’t know what more can be done. If you have somebody smart, civil, and reasonable, and you find the response to intelligence and civility and reasonableness is just running into a fucking wall over and over, well, maybe it’s true. Maybe nothing better than what we currently have is possible.

Still, this Q&A video is inspiring, if only in the sense that you probably sometimes think, as I do: why can’t somebody be elected president who’s not a complete fucktard, who actually has a modicum of sense, a modicum of articulateness? Why can’t somebody get elected who’s at least as competent as I am?

For better or worse, that person has been elected. You can watch him action at the link above. Enjoy him while he’s here.

I mean, fine, this doesn’t prove anything. Well, it proves one thing: that the guy has ear-holes into which flows information that comes from sources other than a posse of idiotic yes-men. Which shouldn’t mean that much, but it does, because I have not had this feeling in the last eight years.

Call me crazy, but I want a president who demonstrates that he reads something besides children’s books and the bible.