I am not a blogger

Is it just me or is there something interesting in the air this week? I look around and I don’t see people walking around campus with that confused look on their face that follows any attempt at watching primary results this year. It’s almost as if all of us has been bearing this big weight for months and months now we’re trying to figure out what the hell was going on every week and why none of us could get any real answers. I don’t know what everyone else was going through or how much anyone cared but for me it was very interesting. I don’t think I would have known as much about the election process if it had not gone this way but at the same time I don’t know if I really care all that much. What really matters is that it is all over and I am happy with the way it all went down.

On our campus there was a pretty large movement for both sides and I couldn’t get through one single party or even a drink at the bar without hearing about it. Everyone was interested and sort of captivated by the whole thing. It was an electrifying excitement that made me think of the coffee houses of nineteenth century Europe. There the common people would mingle with the aristocrats and talk politics over a luxury drink of coffee. In our case now it is more like jager, just kidding, or in my case a Guinness draft. People who I wouldn’t have even though would watch the news were trying to engage me in discussion about how excited people in Europe are about this election. I would tell them to just look at how excited everyone here is and that is just a small step up from how interested they all are over there.

Now we have a presumptive nominee out there in Barack Obama and it’s time to move on to the next phase of the elections; the fist fight. From here on out every one of us who owns a computer or a television will be bombarded with attack ads and debates, slander and pander, and best of all the baby kissing walks through the dinner in some midwestern dust bowl town. It’s a strange thing, the election process in America. What I had thought was a beauty contest on a national scale has turned out to be a real process of representative democracy. What was in many of our minds a lost cause on the part of anyone who watched the nightly news has really become something that everyone feels like they are a part of. Especially on campuses because I feel that we all take a huge interest in politics now as we have grown up in a highly charged time. I am really excited to see what happens in the next few months because this is really what making history is all about: today.