Hope

Well said sir. And I whole­heart­edly agree, except for the major­ity of Califorinians who seem to believe that amend­ing the Constitution to restrict­ing rights is a good idea. Douchebags.

Cheers. Your guy won. My guy didn’t. Democrat majori­ties in both houses. I actu­ally think it’s a good thing to have the Democrats clearly and con­vinc­ingly in charge. They’ll have to make things bet­ter. If they don’t, they’ll have no one to point the fin­ger at but themselves.

Oddly, I find myself — a die hard con­ser­v­a­tive — rather happy at the out­come of this election.

Let’s hoist a cold one and cel­e­brate the great­est coun­try on God’s green Earth.

And if we’re really lucky, the Republican party finds its way back from Christian fun­da­men­tal­ism to a gen­uine con­ser­v­a­tive plat­form. It’s no acci­dent that McCain made his con­ces­sion speech after exit­ing the Barry Goldwater Room.

I spent the after­noon watch­ing the elec­tion when I should have been work­ing. Greetings from Down Under where a recent poll of peo­ple here showed a desire for Obama to win by a mar­gin of four to one. Last year we kicked out those run­ning the coun­try based purely on dogma and replaced them with those who see the big­ger pic­ture and take a pri­mar­ily prag­matic view to deal­ing with issues. Nice to see you have done the same. For the first time in a long, long while the rest of the world is applaud­ing the U.S. and — whis­per it — might even dis­like them a lit­tle bit less.

It is first step , a BIG one , but just a first step. We do have a long way too go.I hope we, as a coun­try, have a long enough atten­tion span and the for­ti­tude to keep things headed in the right direc­tion.… On that I am sick­end by the closed minded hate­ful ass­holes who voted yes on 102 here in Arizona.

Oddly, I find myself — a die hard con­ser­v­a­tive — rather happy at the out­come of this election.

That’s the inter­est­ing thing, and I hope it’s some­thing that lasts. Despite the very vicious cam­paign on both sides, there is a chance that this nation can come together. McCain regained a lot of respect with his con­ces­sion speech, in that the nation heal­ing was larger than him specif­i­cally winning.

McCain’s con­ces­sion speech may have been gra­cious, but after the cam­paign he’s run or acqui­esced in hav­ing had run for him…well, it’s breath­tak­ingly insin­cere. And maybe you didn’t hear the ugly noises the crowd was mak­ing all the while with no attempt by McCain to mod­er­ate their boor­ish­ness. Meanwhile the crowd at Obama’s accep­tance speech politely applauded when he men­tioned hear­ing from McCain and accept­ing his con­grat­u­la­tions. The dif­fer­ence between the rabid wingnuts Rethuglicans regard as their core con­stituency and the decent peo­ple who put Obama in the White House is striking.

Never mind that the GOP tried to put a pig-ignorant, batshit-insane harpy just one 72-year-old heart­beat away from the pres­i­dency, with access to all the bombs she needs to bring on the End Times™ she’s expect­ing any minute.…I still get shiv­ers of hor­ror from think­ing about the bul­let we dodged yesterday.

Personally, I hope the signs that the Republican party are going to cir­cle the wag­ons and rad­i­cal­ize them­selves into irrel­e­vance for gen­er­a­tions to come are cor­rect. These fuck­ers have stolen half my life, and I’m a lit­tle vindictive!

very well done, America. Got it back –no longer an inter­na­tional pariah stink­ing up the place — and showed us all what democ­racy can do given a chance.