Oh, sorry, I never saw the actual final counts. I’m just remembering the news from the days after the 2004 elections.
Not a landslide, but a mandate, most definitely. President Bush’s inauguration speech had something like “I’ve earned this mandate, and I intent to use it…” or something like that, I’m paraphrasing.
It is time to start working together my friends…to better the Country, ourselves and our future.
Period.
“… and lastly, I can see Canada from my house!”
I shouldn’t engage this, but…
when you have rallies that purposefully divide America into us “real” ones (implication: there are fake Americans), when your VP candidate doesn’t shut down comments encouraging the assassination of the candidate of the other party, and when it just continues a rhetoric that has demonized that which disagrees with a certain very narrow worldview (let’s say, anti-patriot act, anti-war… I remember being called a traitor back in 2002/2003. Weapons of Mass Destruction, anyone?), I’m not sure that you can claim a moral high ground vis a vis fantasy wish fulfillment for the downtrodden and indeed, demonized political perspective.
Political enthusiasts of all sorts make comments in bad taste. But threatened property destruction is no where near the scale of assassination of a (black) man about to take the country’s highest office. Period.
/soapbox.
awww that’s adorable!
So say we all!!
If anyone is interested, audio of Obama’s acceptance speech is up, and linked from twitter.com/newshour
There’s an impromptu parade happening outside of my building right now. I see thousands of people. All these excited people!
The weird thing is, the real race that should matter to Seattlites is the governor race, between Gregoire and Rossi, and that race is really close, too close to call. I guess these kids don’t care about that one.
As thrilled as I am about Obama winning, there are a lot of other things going on… my congressional race is too close to call (though my preferred candidate is up 3000 votes with 99% reporting…), for example. And I’m scared about 8 in CA…
But like I said before, I can at least be happy tonight.
And a beautiful sight it is
As a Canadian, I have to say I’m pretty happy of the result of your election it was time for change. Being a close neighbor this election will probably affect us too.
I have to give McCain credit for his great speech. The guy lost but still left with greatness and standing tall. Sadly some of his supporters were not as graceful.
Obama speech was great too and just after it to celebrate we had a electricity blackout (it was a weird timing). But it came back so everything is ok.
Good luck with your new president and I hope that everything will go great for your country.
Whatever the political association of anyone, its always nice to be able to be a witness to an historic moment.
arg 1 AM well goodnight.
There’s another big story that none of these channels are even talking about. Prop 8 is getting strong support in Arizona, California and Florida. These state are about to pass a proposition that bans gay marriage. This is a very big news, and I don’t understand why no one is talking about this.
Arkansas is about to even ban gay people from adopting.
Your words moved me to tears. Thank you. I too feel much hope tonight.
McCain showed his best self. It couldn’t have been better. He showed alot of class.
On the other hand, Washington has just voted yes on a transportation bill. My block is gonna get a subway station. (yay)
Yes indeed, fireworks even. There’s a raucous party downtown. Shiny. (Whoops, my Firefly just showed)
Nothin’ wrong with that
I agree wholeheartedly.
So very true.
fireworks here too
It’s been a long time since we’ve had someone with integrity and an inclusive attitude at the helm. We as a people deserve better leaders than we’ve had in a very long time. I feel some hope tonight.