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