Obama Babies: Coming Soon

I want to have an Obama Baby. Let me be clear: I don't want to have Obama's baby, I want to have an Obama Baby. One of the thousands of babies I predict will be born somewhere around August 4th, 2009. (Which, a few astute commenters have pointed out, happens to be BHO's 48th birthday. And you know what else is totally nuts? The possibility that Obama was conceived on November 8th, 1960. The night JFK was elected. You guys are geniuses.)

But back to this Obama baby boom business. Still need convincing?

Please recall how you felt on Tuesday night. If you are so unfortunate as to be anything like me, you were alternatively crying and laughing, hugging total strangers and screaming "OBAMAOBAMAOBAMA" at passing cars and strangers. Also, if I'm being honest, you were also three sheets to the wind (nothing makes me reach for the hooch like worrying over counties in Ohio). When President-Elect Obama spoke, I felt the total validation of two years of hard work, and the release of eight years of pent-up anger and frustration. I felt joyful, hopeful, and downright randy.

Baby Boomers were conceived in the hoopla of the end of the World War II, when ladies and gents just couldn't keep their hands off each other. Planting your "victory garden" took on a whole new meaning.

I wasn't really looking to have a baby. Since my comfort with commitment doesn't extend past the third date, and I am generally as selfish as a baby myself, I had thought that progeny would have wait. Parents have to do things. I can't even get up to answer the phone sometimes.

But, whatever! The past three days I've felt enough love and joy to let all that fall behind. If you think it's only the ladies who want to be Obama Mamas, think again. Last night I saw the Decemberists perform at New York's Terminal Five. Lead singer and total geeky dreamboat Colin Meloy called out to the audience "How many babies were made last night!? There are going to be some Obama Babies! Who knows, you might even have one in you right now!" AND THEN THEY BROUGHT OUT A CARDBOARD CUTOUT OF PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA AND SENT HIM CROWD-SURFING.

I nearly swooned.

I was this close to lying on the ground, covering myself with leaves and hoping Meloy just happened to fall in.

But I didn't. At the end of the night, I went home to Brooklyn (the land of babies) and found myself stuck behind three hipster moms and their uber-strollers. They looked exhausted, and each and everyone of those babies was screaming at the top of their lungs.

Bring on the Obama Babies! But, uh...maybe skip me.

(Check back in after four years though.)

Comments

[Topgun2]

What next? He was born in a manger?

[Agentlady007]

What a question....how funny.

[Rhia]

well, it's not possible that he was conceived exactly on November 4th, 1960. But perhaps he was conceived, on the 3rd week of November. ;-)

[DarkWitch]

I had the same thought as I watched election night coverage of the happy crowds. About 9 months from now there is going to be an Obama baby boom.

[Tamoomoo]

I won't have an election baby, but I will hopefully have an Obama presidency baby! And I will tell my baby with pride that they were born when Obama was in the White House!

[RHodges123]

Love this. I myself had a writer's strike baby. I can relate.

[Ammi]

LOL. Too funny!

[TheAlchemist]

I personally know of a number of ter rorsex babies, born mid June 2002. So the epidemic you describe wouldn't surprise me. Remember when YOU were just a twinkle in Daddy/Mommy's eyes?

Three cheers for the joyful, hopeful, and downright randy. Bring on the ObamaBabies.

Since they'll be Leos, there's a good chance a leader or two will arise from the group.

[hrhkat]

Random family guy reference!!!!!!!!!!! yay

[lauriemann]

I have a friend who says her daughter was conceived in October 2004, on the night when her beloved Red Sox finally won the World series. ;->

Our daughter MIGHT have been conceived on Valentine's Day 1980. I remember talking with a friend that evening, and telling her that I'd like to have a baby that year. A month later, I found out it had been no joke! ;-> One of my daughter's first outings was when I went to vote for John Anderson for president in November 1980.

[murly]

McCain was born in August too. Maybe he was conceived the day Lincoln was elected!

[That Guy]

Oh I get it. Cause he is old, right?

[jrjoyrae]

McCain would have been conceived in 1935...

a year before FDR was re-elected to office...

man... that DOES make him sound old.

:0)

[shel3364]

LOL!! good one.

[Cay]

Back in March, we named our new kitten Obama. An alternative for those who aren't having any more babies.

[neworleanslady68]

I want to get a tattoo to mark this moment.

I'd begun to despair that this country was slipping into fascism, that my fellow citizens cared more about American Idol than about their republic...and I sure as hell never imagined that I, great-great granddaughter of slave-holding Louisiana sugarcane farmers, would live to see a president who wasn't a white guy. Maybe in my daughter's lifetime, but not mine.

My family is marked by our slaveholding past, as is our country. I want a marker, to remember this moment always, when history shifted, when a southern white girl like me walked dozens of miles in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida, canvassing for a man my mother-in-law wouldn't allow to enter her home through the front door, because I KNEW, skin color aside, he had the right stuff to be president. And to remember the moment when masses of people put down their remotes, rose up and said "enough" to those who for eight years got away with violating our Constitution....and to remember when millions were so inspired by politics and hope that they went dancing and screaming and crying in the streets on election night.

I don't think it will be an Obama likeness - maybe the date of the election or the inauguration?.

A law student, I can't have a tattoo where it'll be seen when I'm dressed (it's for me, not for others really).

Any suggestions about what my tattoo might say...and where?

[DieHardDemo]

Hope & Love
11-04-08

[CanadaJen]

Yes We Can 11.04.2008

[HRhuffinstuff]

LOL This was a fantastic post- I was thinking the same thing election night, the stress before hand was enough to warrant a good shag to pass the time till Ohio numbers came in... too bad bf was out of town...

[wlsail]

Well, I can say that my husband and I contributed Election Night and since to the Obama-Baby boom. A bunch of us relieved dems discussed this theory at our Florida-blue state party, so it may be a reality. We shall see.

[sueno]

Great post!
very heart warming post-

[imaxfli]

She wrote that article and failed to mention Barack's birthdate????

[DieHardDemo]

August 4th is Obama's Birthday.