Yes we did
I don't underestimate for a moment the challenge of the road ahead. But for tonight and tomorrow...
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I don't underestimate for a moment the challenge of the road ahead. But for tonight and tomorrow...
12 tracks in the sand:
I'm with you re the challenges on the road ahead, but I now remember what it feels like to have confidence in our leadership.
Woo-hoo!!! :D
Piff it's a great feeling, isn't it. I'm so proud of my country this morning... and now Florida has gone blue too! Woo-hoo! And there you were in the thick of it - bet you could hear the roar from your apartment!
I was so excited about Florida. Way to step up to the plate Sunshine State!!
Honestly, if I were more mobile I would have been a face in the throng last night.
I'm enormously proud as well.
Yes you did! Thank you thank you thank you!
Congrats, I think this is a good step for your country.
Not only a giant step for America, but for the world. We have all suffered under the Bush administration.
Yes the road to fixing this giant mess will be long, and the climb steep (to quote Obama) but it is a journey that needs to be taken.
I am hopeful that based on what I heard last night, and given the fact that he showed such class in his speech...he will live up to his promises.
xoxo
Go BLUE!!! lol
Yes, you did, Joe, and so did we all! What a fantastic night for all of us, and a brand new day, with plenty of challenges ahead. It IS nice to have a little confidence in our leaders again.
Thanks for your part in it all, Joe! : )
Group hug, Jazz!
I think it's a step in the right direction, Steven, though it feels more like a leap today! I'm beginning to understand why hope can be audacious.
There's a lot of fence-mending to do, Gill, restoration, and new friendships to cultivate. Tests will come, but if Barack's campaign, two years on the road, revealed any virtue along the way, innovation and integrity, I think, stand out the most. He's so damn smart (so is Biden) - a lawyer and constitutional scholar - I'm breathing a sigh of relief.
Greg, it feels so good to have cast that vote, doesn't it. How often in life do you get a chance to be on the right side of history in such a dramatic way and moment? The election was a paradigm shift on so many fronts, historical and political, even spiritual. I pray that Barack's administration gets a chance get some good stuff going.
My elation over President Elect Obama is also a bit dampened by the choice of bigotry and restriction of rights in California, Arizona, and Florida.
When one sector of American society is denied civil rights, than all are. It's just that simple.
I'm hoping that the Obama administration will put this issue in their top ten priorities of things to do at the Federal level.
Curtis, that's a great issue that you should pursue if you feel strongly motivated. Dig into it.
The president can do some things, although reversing the will of the people in a state constitution isn't one of them, nor should he, obviously. The supreme court could, in due course. Don't think this one would, however.
I think it's interesting that in this election gay marriage (and in Arkansas gay adoption) was as soundly defeated as was right-wing ideology. The same electorate that gave Barack an historic landslide rejected gay marriage, including in one of the most liberal states in the union. Those are the facts. The question is how did that happen, what is the cognitive dissonance? What part of this problem do WE own? How can it change?
Bitter - Sweet
The sweet is the Obama victory and the bitter is Prop 8 being a victory for the bigoted Mormons who helped finance this debacle and the huge blocks of black voters who voted against our civil rights .... how ironic.
Butch, the ballot initiative process came into practice at the turn or the century as a way for the electorate to push back against an inaccessible government. Senators weren't even directly elected at the time.
Ballot initiative reform is certainly needed now. Today, the initiative process has become a profitable industry. The profit motive needs to be removed, either through serious regulation, if not outright prohibition and prosecution. At a minimum, any initiative should require a 2/3 rather than a simple majority to change a constitution. Evaluation of the number of petition signatures required to mount an initiative in the first place would be helpful as well, and should be open to revision.
I'm hopeful, though, that change is coming. As I came to believe a long time ago, the direction we're headed, even if turned around yesterday, trumps where we've been.
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