Yes.

[gement]

Yes, yes we can.

Here's to the coming tenure of a president with all the usual human failings and politicking and maneuvering and miscalculations and boring tax details. Here's to the news covering a black man with an Arabic name dealing with all the mundane bookkeeping until everyone's sick of it.

Here's to all the minor human rights and ethics races that came along on this rock star election's coattails.

I am now done talking about politics for at least two years.

Comments

Re: Yes, we did!

[gement.livejournal.com]

No, no surprise there.

I agree re: the funny feeling.

The toast in my post is what I'm allowing myself to ponder. There's a sneaky little corner of my brain that dares to hope (yes, even though it's a campaign slogan) that the last 8 years may have created the conditions for another JFK. That we might actually get the big changes, and they might be thought through well enough to stay standing on their own instead of being poorly implemented and embarrassing.

(Ted Kennedy spearheaded No Child Left Behind. Politicians need better technical advisers on the ground-level ramifications of their suggestions.)

I hope the country grows up a little, and that there are some Republicans I'm not afraid to vote for in the next election because they've ditched the super-right anti-science demographic.

Also, ponies. More ponies.

Re: Yes, we did!

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

"Ponies for everyone!"-ginmar

[jairen82.livejournal.com]

Here's to our soldiers coming home soon and an unjust war finally coming to an end. Here's to all the people who made this historic fact even a remote possibility, then made it a truth we can admire and respect. Here's to faith in America reborn in the backyards and small houses of good, open-minded people everywhere. Here's to our brothers and sisters in other countries standing with us and cheering for a brighter tomorrow. And here's to you and me and all our friends who can breathe a little bit easier now that the election is finally over, and being able to finally say "Happy Election Day" with a smile!

[gement.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

I'm looking forward to seeing the Purple America map once all the votes are counted.

No matter where you are, at least 1 in 4 people voted the other way. We're a very mixed bag in this country, more so than hardcore members of any party would like to admit.

Here's to honestly working together and showing compassion to our neighbors who are scared to death that the united Democrat front is about to run off with the country.

[jairen82.livejournal.com]

Here here!

I am now done talking about politics for at least two years.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Can I have 14 March 09 in the pool?

Re: I am now done talking about politics for at least two years.

[gement.livejournal.com]

What happens then?

Re: I am now done talking about politics for at least two years.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Well, if you start talking about politics on or closest to that day, then I get a snickers bar from everyone in the pool.
And you owe me a Coke!8D