ozarque ([info]ozarque) wrote,
@ 2007-12-02 13:04:00
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Politics, and a question; afternote...
Thanks to [info]redaxe for the comment saying:
"First, I'd check my calendar in hopes it would be January 2009 (I know that's a minor error; still...)"

It should for sure be 2009, not 2008. I wish I could blame the error on wishful thinking; I can't. It's just my infamous math-numbness flaring up again.

Thanks also to all of you who have grown so accustomed to my making that particular error [and other errors of the same primitive kind] that you've given up all hope. This is at least the third time I've done a post where I had the U.S. presidency starting in the wrong year.

Thank goodness I learned to spell and jump rope, making my years spent in grade school not a total waste...

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[info]karenkay
2007-12-02 07:10 pm UTC (link)
I think that moving the primaries and caucuses to December of this year and January next year confuses everything. Earlier this year, I was convinced that the election was THIS November. It took me a while to realized that everything got moved up, but not *quite* that far...

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[info]damedini
2007-12-02 07:36 pm UTC (link)
*G* I was just there I your think-space with you. I always find it oddly serendipitous when I am reading or hearing someone I don't know and they make an error of that sort - just the wrong number or name - and I miss it because I know what they mean, even if there's no reason I should. I'm just in tune, I guess.
Now, if they mispronounce or mis-punctuate or misspell, that I'll always notice. And I tend to catch spelling errors but not typos.

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[info]redbird
2007-12-02 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Oddly, I cheerfully thought "OK, I have a half day's work here, between the official inauguration when I'm legally president and the necessary festivities in the evening" and didn't even notice the year.

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[info]glaurung_quena
2007-12-03 02:34 pm UTC (link)
Considering how long it takes to elect a president in America (up here in Canada, when they announce an election, it's over six weeks later), and considering that the election takes place in 2008, but the elected person doesn't take office until the following year (unlike most other democracies, where the new government takes power pretty much right away), your confusion is perfectly understandable. Don't fret it.

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[info]mamadeb
2007-12-04 03:53 pm UTC (link)
That's an artifact of how old our democracy actually is - until 1933, we inaugurated our presidents in *March* to insure adequate travel time. 19th C t rains were reasonably fast, but change takes time, so FDR was the first to take the oath in January.

Doesn't make the time lag less annoying or confusing, though.

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