bittersweet victory
California was practically 60/40 for Obama, yet it appears that the hateful prop 8 (ban on gay marriage) passed.
The Golden State isn't as blue as I hoped it would be. It's the coastline (a.k.a. us big-city libruls) vs. the inland. I guess the votes for Obama aren't really indicative of that anyway, as he seems to come from a more centrist position on most things. (I laugh at all the people with baseless claims that he's some sort of radical socialist. The only way you could think that is if your political spectrum is heavily skewed to the right.)
The No on Prop 8 site is saying that there's still a lot of absentee ballots that need to be counted. But I'm not getting my hopes up.
I'm glad Obama won. He probably won't live up to a lot of the hype, and I've noticed he's trying to let people know that he's only human and big issues take longer than 4 years to fix (he's repeated that he won't be a perfect president, but that he will try to listen to the people, or something to that effect). I can't wait to have an intellectual in charge, for a change.
It's nice to know that all the ugly racism that reared its head in the country this election season couldn't stop Obama. I'm not saying that people who voted McCain were racists, but that racism wasn't a powerful enough factor to defeat Obama.
Unfortunately, homophobia is alive and well.
If you voted YES on prop 8 in CA, you're an asshole.
The Golden State isn't as blue as I hoped it would be. It's the coastline (a.k.a. us big-city libruls) vs. the inland. I guess the votes for Obama aren't really indicative of that anyway, as he seems to come from a more centrist position on most things. (I laugh at all the people with baseless claims that he's some sort of radical socialist. The only way you could think that is if your political spectrum is heavily skewed to the right.)
The No on Prop 8 site is saying that there's still a lot of absentee ballots that need to be counted. But I'm not getting my hopes up.
I'm glad Obama won. He probably won't live up to a lot of the hype, and I've noticed he's trying to let people know that he's only human and big issues take longer than 4 years to fix (he's repeated that he won't be a perfect president, but that he will try to listen to the people, or something to that effect). I can't wait to have an intellectual in charge, for a change.
It's nice to know that all the ugly racism that reared its head in the country this election season couldn't stop Obama. I'm not saying that people who voted McCain were racists, but that racism wasn't a powerful enough factor to defeat Obama.
Unfortunately, homophobia is alive and well.
If you voted YES on prop 8 in CA, you're an asshole.