still drunk on Obama-wine.
McCain's concession speech showed real class. It gave me more hope than Obama's victory speech in a way. Perhaps it is the death rattle of the past 8 years politics of fear and mean-spiritedness that I think the Bush Administration characterized. Perhaps those people will get swept away with a bad memory and the Republican party will move away from the anti-intellectual "scare the rednecks" position it has taken in the past and move more into the honorable areas that were characterized by Krauthammer, Buckley, Brooks.
I'm happy for science today. And happy for Pragmatism. I'm happy for thoughtfulness of course over "shooting from the hip cowboy" mentality that only seems to work in movies- not when running a country.
In 2000 I felt like the democratic process had been cheated and I felt robbed. In 2004 I felt betrayed by my own countryfolk and on the outside. Today I feel cautiously hopeful.
I'm happy for science today. And happy for Pragmatism. I'm happy for thoughtfulness of course over "shooting from the hip cowboy" mentality that only seems to work in movies- not when running a country.
In 2000 I felt like the democratic process had been cheated and I felt robbed. In 2004 I felt betrayed by my own countryfolk and on the outside. Today I feel cautiously hopeful.