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I voted this morning for BHO and I must admit that it was an emotional experience for me. My eyes welled up a few times while I was waiting in line to vote . . . looking around the room and seeing the excitement . . . thinking about what this means for our country . . . thinking about my 3-year-old daughter Bailey being so excited this morning because she was going to come with her grandfather and help him vote for "Obamer" (as opposed to "McChain" as she calls the Senator from Arizona).
I know in my mind that he can never live up to the hype - that he's been dealt a really bad hand with the shitty economy and no win situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But still I'm pretty sure he's at least got the brains not to stink it out like the last eight years have stunk with Bush.
In my mind's eye - I'm hoping he's Bill Clinton without the sleaze. I'm hoping he makes smart decisions, stays relatively center-left and somehow the economy turns around in less than four years time. He's got a bigger hole to dig out of than Clinton - but he also has more support.
You know, I think it was on this blog (maybe not) that I said four years ago that I was actually kind of happy Bush got another term because I knew he'd fuck it up so bad that the Dems would take over with a landslide four years later. Let's hope that comes to fruition today. Go Dems!! Go Obama!! God Bless America!!
Well said, Kurt. For me, this election is an opportunity to put cynicism aside and to have hope in the quality of our leadership. Following Obama's lead, I'm ignoring the noise and looking forward to a solutions based approach to government that's more agenda than ideologically driven. The historic nature of this election (fingers crossed) is something I'll reflect upon and relish in January.
My voting experience wasn't particularly memorable and I can't say I'd paid a lot of attention to the campaign, but as the votes started coming in, I realized just how important this is to me. Now that the spell is broken, people are running in the streets, hooting and hollering, honking their car horns, shooting off fireworks (or are those gunshots? - knuckleheads never learn).
It's really awesome. Only the reaction to the recent Giants' Super Bowl victory comes close to this, and even that pales in comparison.
It took one fucked up situation for the country to say, "fuck it, lets put in the black guy with a Muslim name!"
Seriously, I was the first one to critisize the Democrats for putting up Obama/Clinton as the potential candidates. I feared that the country was not ready for either one and there was way too much at stake to have another GoP Pres.
I am glad I was proven wrong. the politics of fear did not override Obama's steadfast message of hope and change.
Obama has an incredible task before him--some things which will be out of his control; but at least he has brought in optimism and a degree of redemption (I think world wide we got some credibility back!).
I agree with Kurt, at least he has the brains to put up some decent solutions (or attempts). We pour more money into building Iraq meanwhile New Orleans is still fucked up...come on, did the GOPs really think America is that fucking stupid? sadly, about 48 million of our fellow americans did fall for such nonsense.
How the hell would you vote for a person who believes the fundamentals of the economy are doing well then a few hours later (after a big market drop), he tries to spin his previous statement by saying he was referring to the "spirit of the american worker"?? or for a party that picks a candidate for VP only to find out that she abused her power as Governor (per the state legislature findings)?? fuck the findings of the alaskan personnel board--those clowns were appointed by Palin...
ANYWAY..I am glad the majority of us voted for change!
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