Too relieved to even write about how relieved I am. I could do no justice to the event in writing, the event stands on it’s own.
Barack Obama won. We no longer have to listen to the punditry babble on about how he could lose. We now have to suffer through the incessant babbling about why he won. If there is one reason there are thousands of reasons, none more or less valid than the other.
Welcome to the fold Virginia and Indiana, and back to the fold Ohio – you old devil you. Colorado and Nevada – Yo, and a fist pump to you as well.
To the only in America segment:
Pennsylvania you are America, this no more clearly seen than in the reelection of the man who expressed his concern over the racist redneckery of his constituency. You either know yourself well and can live with it, or see yourselves not at all.
Alaska, good for you for reelecting a felon. I would have expected nothing less.
WTF is with you all in California? Makes no sense at all.
Anyone planning to head to Michigan during influenza season let me know. 😉
Via Paul Krugman
A magnificent victory for Barack Obama. And bear in mind that the campaign, in its final stages, was really about different philosophies of governing. This wasn’t like the 2004 campaign, which was essentially fought over fake issues — Bush running on national security and social issues, then claiming that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security. In this election, Obama proudly stood up for progressive values and the superiority of progressive policies; John McCain, in return, denounced him as a socialist, a redistributor. And the American people rendered their verdict.
Now the work begins.
Then there is Ralph Nadar, a man who has done admirable things but whom I’ve never admired for a lot of reasons. It is way harder to follow through on a lifelong committment to truth and justice than it is it do a couple of really good things then settle for making a lot of noise every few years while raking in money at 1000 dollar a plate dinners, like those nasty “politicians” you pretend to loathe. He has made a nice profitable niche for himself, at times telling some truths, but he has gone from crusader to self-promoting, self-obsessed joke, something the Green Party knew long ago. A typical beltway lawyer who found himself a niche which no longer required him to do anything but spout his rhetoric every so often. An image built on his false purity, a man as motivated by fame and power as the centrist politicians he pretends to loathe. Your words are not enough any more, never were in my lifetime, and your words this time should finish you dear Ralph.
comments off because I have more time to harass others this way.
Peace
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