The Morning After...

Nov 05, 2008 11:22


...and I'm still in that happily-stunned half-glazed stare stage; did last night *really* happen?  Did we, as a nation, take the steps that needed taking in order to peel off the last eight years like a restrictive, withered outer husk?  Holy change in America, Batman.

I remember being old enough to pay some sort of attention back in the days when ( Read more... )

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candb November 5 2008, 20:14:38 UTC
My memory of it all will be Molly dancing in the living room in her hello kitty pj's singing "Oba maa.. obaaammaa.. obbammmmaaa"
and then chris saying "yes, he won, but baby, don't ever mention it to your grandmother."
LOL

It may be the sudafed or the PMS, but It's been a surreal day. In one single moment last night when he gave that speech, He already gave me what he has advertised....

Hope.

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vixynne November 6 2008, 12:27:22 UTC
You're absolutely, 100% right. Hope is back, and it's like teh crackrock, I'm trying not to cling desperately and whimper "don't take it away now that you gave it to meeeeee!" LOL

My great-grandfather--who died before I knew him (which is probably for the best, LOL) is prolly spinning in his grave...that man put the BIG in bigot. Imagine his horror to know that a *n-word* is now leading the country. Hah. Take that, dead great-grandfather. :P

Yeah, I'm not so much a gracious winner. Oh well, LOL

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candb November 6 2008, 13:06:58 UTC
Yeah, down here it's been kind of interesting. I've seen a sign on a bar (a biker one, :gasp:) that said a few not so nice things about him. Yet it was gone within a few hours. I'm pretty sure someone let them know their displeasure ( ... )

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vixynne November 10 2008, 15:46:16 UTC
Oh man, so it's like West Side Story meets Deliverance? Oy vey...y'know, there's prolly plenty of that going on here, too, I just haven't overheard much of it. I think my students aren't well-informed enough to realize there WAS an election. o_O
I love that you get to just be smug and satisfied...let the bigots figger out what's got you lookin' like the cat that ate the KKK-kanary, LOL! Make some sour-grape jam and slather it on toast for 'em!

I've missed you too, and I can't bleev you has TWO minimcw's runnin' round...where's the good photos, I wanna make my ovaries ache! :D
*hughughug*

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