[War] United States: "New Faces old places"

[Patrick B]

United States: "New Faces old places"

Steven Dupree
President of the United States


==November 4th 2012==

The party was held in Skokie Illinois, one of the larger convention 
centers where the party was in full swing, though it was still early and 
the returns were coming in.  As usual the northeast had gone Democratic, 
but some of the results from the south were encouraging, but then again 
it was the south.

Some of the urban areas were going light red, one piece of paper said 
they did better in Manhattan then usual. And the candidate was no where 
to be seen.

When Steven ran for a city council seat he stayed up all night counting 
votes, calculating, and he lost. Miserably, so when he ran his campaign 
for mayor of Lake Forest, he decided to not watch the results, and he 
won.  So he set an informal tradition of not watching results, when he 
was invested in something, not that he didn't pay attention, but it was 
just tradition.

So he was upstairs in a hotel suite with his wife, watching what he had 
jokingly dubbed his election night movie choices. It varied depending on 
how long he was going to be up here.  Tonight's feature was all 3 Lord 
of the Rings movies, but his only concession was getting hourly updates, 
and when he would eitehr make or recieve a call.

The ballroom was loud with cheers or groans as results came in, When 
James Carville appeared on CNN looking more like Gollum then normal as 
he was and boy was he pissed.

As the first movie ended he got an update, he was starting to pull 
ahead, and surprise of surprises California was closer then he expected. 
Obama was ahead but not by as much as he was in 2008.

Setting the paper aside he settled back in his chair to watch the Battle 
for Helms Deep unfold.

The night dragged on and suddenly a staffer burst in. with a cordless 
phone and a look on his face like he had just found the keys to a 68 
mustang, 100,000 dollars and a supermodel all waiting for him under his 
Christmas tree.

"It's the White House...."

Steven looked up with a start, "Thank you."

Then he took the phone.....

==Main ballroom Skokie illinois===

The news had broken in, with the news of the concession call, which made 
the crowd go crazy with cheering and celebrating.  When the side door 
opened and Steven walked up to the podium again to the cheering crowd of 
supporters.

"Thank you..." He clearaed his throat, "As you have no doubt heard, I 
just got off the phone with President Obama, and he has conceeded the 
election...."

At this point his speech was interrupted by cheers, Steven raised his 
hand and waited untill the crowd died down.

"I wanted to thank President Obama for a good campaign, where we put 
aside the politics of personal destruction and focused on what we both 
love, our country.  This campaign is over, starting tonight I would like 
to reach out to all Americans, no matter what part of this land you call 
home, be it Democratic or Republican, Rich or Poor, Of all races, 
creeds, genders, and sexual orientations, and promise that I will bring 
the American Dream to all people. Thank you and good night."

The cameras flashed as Steven and his wife waved to the cameras.

==January 21st 2013==

The next four months went like a blur, that included his house being 
fortified up to Fort Knox standards, calls from people he had seen on 
the news, and meeting with staff members, deciding on big things like 
cabinet secretaries and little things like the White House china.

Then came the inaguaration day, try the longest day of his life, 
starting with morning coffee with the outgoing president, Good thing was 
the election had not been brutal so he sat with Obama and chatted about 
stuff in general, reporters did their usual discussion about the 
amicable meeting, which led to Steven's joke that maybe they should 
start a fight to give them something new to say, which provoved (at that 
time) Presidential laughter.

  The first day in office was usually ceremonial he signed some papers, 
read a letter left by the outgoing president, then he had a few press 
events, but generally it was like most people moving in to a new house, 
finding where everything goes...

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