layla: (FEMA)
The very, very good:

President-Elect Barack Obama. I still grin when I type that. His acceptance speech was inspiring, and McCain's concession speech was gracious and classy. Obama's not perfect and I may not be on board with every element of his party's platform, but I'm so much more pleased with him, from everything I've seen in the debates and so forth, than with any President in my lifetime -- I'm really looking forward to seeing where the next four years go. The more I learn of him, the more I like him. And what could be more of a success story than this -- a first-generation immigrant's son, going in four years from total unknown, to a (near) landslide election to the highest office in the land. America, right now, you seriously kick ass.

The bad:

Alaska, Alaska, Alaska. What is wrong with us? I mean, seriously ... is it so painful to vote for a (moderate, pro-development, pro-gun-rights) Democrat that 50% of us will vote for a convicted felon instead?

And California's Prop. 8 passed (as well as the other anti-gay initiatives in other states). I have no words for how disgusted and angry I am. A legal challenge has already been filed in California, and apparently the 18,000 existing marriages will not be invalidated (as yet), so ... waiting, just waiting.
layla: (Frank - make my day)
As usual, Dave Barry brings the awesome:

The Republicans are also feeling good about their message, which is that Washington is bad and whoever is in charge there needs to be run out of town on a rail. Interestingly, this is also the Democrats' message. We are now in our fourth consecutive decade in which both of our major political parties are just totally FED UP with Washington. I frankly don't see how Washington can survive this onslaught much longer.

I do love Dave Barry.

I also love this delightfully stabby rejoinder to Palin criticizing Obama for being a "community organizer":

"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor."

Hee hee. ZING!

I started off with a lot of respect for Palin, but I must admit that every time she opens her mouth on the national stage, my respect for her drops a few notches (by which I assume she must be doing a good job of appealing to her constituency ... *rimshot*). The pre-emptive dismissal of Palin (apparently on the basis of her gender and Alaska's remoteness) really upset me, but it also bothers me because I think the Democrats are fools to underestimate her. She's smart, charismatic and very much a self-made woman, and I just hope she's not going to be what gives the Republicans their edge in November, because the more hypocrisy comes out of her mouth, the more I want to see the whole ticket go down (and I wanted that quite badly to begin with).

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