Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Brush With Divinity

On my way to an off-site training session today, I took a route that was temporarily blocked at one point.  As I waited, I remembered that Barak the Obamessiah was actually in Kansas City today on a campaign stop.

Yes, yes, hold your envy, people...I was supremely privileged to witness the passing of his campaign motorcade!  As I watched the motorcade pass by, it seemed to me that the trees along the roadside leaned in closer, and turned just a bit more green.  The colorful flowers swayed in the gentle breeze, and became just a bit more vivid.  I could have sworn I heard the faint strains of an ethereal symphony.  After the Obamessiah's passing, the world resumed its natural state with an almost tangible sigh of satisfaction.  Oh, what a holy moment...

Okay, I have to quit before I start dry-heaving.

I did actually see the motorcade pass by.  I noticed that it consisted of at least half a dozen vehicles (not including the police escort, which was significant), including two huge tour buses, a couple of full-sized SUVs (Suburbans, I believe), as well as a couple of full-sized sedans.  I wonder if they bought carbon credits to offset all the planet-busting emissions from that motorcade?

In all honesty, I really did get a charge from one particular sight.  In a visual scenario amazingly similar to a Hollywood flick, one of the SUVs -- with all of its windows wide open -- was full of sunglasses-adorned Secret Service agents with very large guns.  SWEET!  I would gladly skip an entire weekend with the Obamessiah for ten minutes of chatting with one of those guys.

There's my two cents.

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