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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

happy june, everbuddy!
less than three weeks till the two decade mark on my odometer. wait...that's how many miles you've travelled...i dunno how much that would be. whatever, two decades.

nova's home for the week as she's between a couple of gigs with Emily's List. we joyously watched the West Wing viewer's choice marathon on Bravo on monday. her new job starts next monday in pennsylvania. since she's home, we talk politics a little more than usual, which is to say all the time. she's happy because the special election in south dakota yesterday went to the democrat, making all three of south dakota's congresspeople democrats, despite them being a predominantly republican state. there are all these specials on tv comparing Bush and Kerry and how different the nation would be under either.
it reminds me of 1992 when Clinton was running against Bush. i didn't understand anything about politics or government yet. all i knew was that i liked Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles, X-Men and Snailiens. i asked my mother what the big deal was with the president and she told me that if Clinton won, the nation would be completely different. of course i didn't know what she meant, but all i knew in my head was that i loved Snailians, and if things were completely different then i wouldn't get to play with Snailians anymore.
yes, in the third grade i was a conservative. i saw the nightly reports on desert storm and i knew it was scary, but i was just beginning to watch the news at that time, so i didn't know it wasn't always like that. i didn't know that we weren't always watching footage of soldiers and that the news wasn't supposed to be scary. i thought good television was supposed to be scary. after all, all my friends at the time loved Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, that show on nickelodeon about this group of kids who told scary stories around a campfire. of course, the stories were silly to anyone over the age of ten, but i never particularly liked being scared, so i hardly ever watched. that reminds me of the time i went with the Feketts to see the Blair Witch Project, but that's a different story.
thing is, all i knew of the news was that every night we watch desert storm. i knew desert storm wouldn't last forever and that there would be other missions and wars and everything else, but i didn't know how or why any of this was the way it was or how a different president would affect it.
as the election drew closer, all i knew was that Bill Clinton played the saxophone on popular television shows and Dana Carvey did a great George Bush impersonation. yeah, i definitely grew up on television. anyway, this made Clinton a bit cooler in my book and i'd come to realize Snailians would be gone in two months anyway, as all toys i was ever interested were, so i decided a Clinton white house might be nice, and i was right. by 1996, i understood a bit more about the US governement and the economy and i was partially concerned with the issues and i knew Clinton was doing a great job. of course, it wasn't until 1998, when i began warming up for Model Congress, that i really took an interest in politics and started following the issues intently.

i've still never forgotten about Snailians. they were fairly uncomplicated toys, but i just thought they were the coolest. i only had one, he wore purple body armor and his name was Roosevelt.
yes, the Snailians were all named after past US Presidents. how's that for a funny coincidence?

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