They waited for the polls to close on the West Coast, and then it cascaded across the networks and feeds. It is a historic moment in so many ways. At the very least, no matter what side of the fence you’re on - it was the first time where both an african american and a woman ran with a realistic possibility of winning on the tickets. (Does anyone even realize it’d happened before, but on fringe parties).
The world was looking to America to get it’s shit together. To step out of being an arrogant bully who played by noone’s rules but those which it made up to suit itself. The red states so badly are chest-thumpingly proud of America, but they don’t realize how low it’s standing on the world scene has dropped. It’s seen as a bully, unethical, and even worse dishonorable. Around the world the news feeds are breathing a sigh of relief.
A few more seats and the Senate will be fillibuster proof. Already the Democrats hold a majority in both houses and the president.
The shrub can get the frack out of the White House and never be heard from again. The Emperor (I mean Cheney) can stay invisible and now irrelevant. I’m even good with dropping legal investigations when they’re out of office. Let’s just move forward.
The Christian Right - Do they have any clue that they’re about as scary (and out of touch) to listen to as it is to listen to a random Muslim fanatic flinging around fatwa’s. Even by a moderate Christian (or lapsed Lutheran), fanatics of both sides are just bewildering to hear talk in the 21st century. People actually preached (and believed) that New Orleans was smitten by God because of it’s immorality.
It’s time to get heads out of the stagnation that’s gripped so much of the country for so long. For the government to have gone so astray. Watch what happens over the next few days on the stock markets around the world.
I’m relieved… so relieved. We can now move forward, hopefully together as a country. But as much as the Republicans demanded that I live in fear for 8 years, I’m angry. It’s time to leave their ethos in the dust, and look far more towards hope.
When I was in High School, I was a Republican. But then it shifted from being the small government policy party to being the big business and bible thumping party. God loving is great. God fearing and bible thumping has no business in business or in government.
Ok, now we get to finally see some actual scenes from the film (far moreso than from the teaser from the past summer). Gah, now we have to wait until next summer to see this installment. I swear, the kids will be out of college before the last film is said and done.
So Palin continues to deride those areas and individuals who don’t vote Republican in the election, that they’re really anti-American. They’re traitors to their country, and they don’t really love god, the flag, or apple pie.
I was reading over a post by a blogger who was extolling how Palin will ride to the rescue in 2012. Why this soccer mom - the idea of a muggle deciding to get involved in politics is a nice idea, even up to the state legislature level - getting any real consideration. All she can do is evade answers to any real questions. She’s uneducated, uninformed, and dangerously so backwater that I wonder how she allows herself out of the house (her mentality is shades of women supposed to be barefoot and pregnant).
I suppose what pisses me off most about this election more than most is that the Republican’s only option is to come from a platform of fear. If you don’t vote for us, you’re a trator. If you don’t vote for us, you’re killing our children by encouraging terrorists to bomb the US. The lists goes on.
Big city people have an infinitely better sense of the bigger picture than yokels from backwater hamlets. But it’s just those small town, small minded people who are still clinging on to the idea that those WMDs are still out there in Iraq. All they know is their own backyard and care about the next PTA meeting. There’s nothing wrong with living in a small town, but really, don’t pretend to know about (or care about) things that go on in the world that happen beyond the county lines. Palin’s a great one to push for the new bake sale, but she has no business being on a national (let alone international) stage.
What the fuck? Are people in this country really so dim that they think Palin’s a good idea? The notion that she might be one heartbeat away from the Presidency is mortifying. Granted she’s the MILF next door, but she’s simply not that bright or informed. And being someone who can’t make up her mind unless God tells her to, that’s even more scary.
Here’s another of her latest commentaries:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists," has refused to call people who bomb abortion clinics by the same name.
When asked Thursday night by NBC television presenter Brian Williams whether an abortion clinic bomber was a terrorist, Palin heaved a sigh and, at first, circumvented the question.
"There’s no question that Bill Ayers by his own admittance was one who sought to destroy our US Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist," Palin said, referring to a 1960s leftist who founded a radical violent gang dubbed the "Weathermen" — and who years later supported Obama’s first run for public office in the state of Illinois.
"Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that it would be unacceptable to… I don’t know if you’re gonna use the word ‘terrorist’ there," the ardently pro-life running mate of John McCain said.
Early this month, after the New York Times ran an article highlighting the ties between Obama and Ayers, Palin told a campaign rally in Colorado that Obama "sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
Attacks on doctors who practice abortion and on family planning clinics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s left several people dead and scores wounded.
Eric Rudolph, the extreme right winger who planted a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, which killed one person, was sentenced three years ago to two life terms in jail for an abortion clinic bombing in Alabama in which a policeman was killed.
