Voting 2008...
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And now, voting completed, we drink and wait for the results.
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Because scary little devil girls have to stick together.
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Yae you!Imp-Chan wrote:And now, voting completed, we drink and wait for the results.
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But then, I sent in my absentee ballot a while ago.
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IT'S BEEN CALLED.
Obama will be the new president.
I breath a sigh of relief, inhale, and say FUCK YEAH
Obama will be the new president.
I breath a sigh of relief, inhale, and say FUCK YEAH
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I just know I should not have been playing the drinking game of the night. Every time a reporter says the word "Historic", bottoms up!
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Free at last, free at last . . . from stupidity and corruption, a little bit at least.
Never mess with a University of Chicago prof. They are always smarter than you are.
Never mess with a University of Chicago prof. They are always smarter than you are.
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Congratulations.
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The one thing I'll miss about McCain not getting elected is the imagery of Palin as VP: her main job would have been to "babysit" the Senate and I, for one, would have loved to see her give Teddy* a "Time Out."
* You may substitute your favorite senator here.
* You may substitute your favorite senator here.
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Amusing in concept, yes, but I worried that she would be dumb enough to actually try it.
An interesting political plot line to watch: Palin thinks she might be the future of the Republican party, and, amazingly enough, pundits who tend to 'ship Republicans have suggested the same. Two big problems with that . . .
a) Palin has been a contributing factor to the most humiliating defeat of a Republican ticket since Dewey in 1948 and Hoover in 1932. Whatever else she might represent to Republicans outside her base, she has the stink of failure about her.
b) Palin's primary concern over the next year or so is going to be staying in office and out of jail. She has been a charming governor for Alaska, but also an incompetent, petty, and corrupt governor.
c) Palin's low-brow antics on the stump have made career and professional Republicans very angry. If they feel betrayed by Bush's intellectual weakness and moral stupidity, why would they support someone even more clueless?
On the other hand, Alaskans are on the verge of sending a convicted criminal (7 felony counts) to represent them in the United States Senate, where he will be refused entrance by a chastened and disgusted body trying to clean up its act after years in the gutter. Anything might be possible.
An interesting political plot line to watch: Palin thinks she might be the future of the Republican party, and, amazingly enough, pundits who tend to 'ship Republicans have suggested the same. Two big problems with that . . .
a) Palin has been a contributing factor to the most humiliating defeat of a Republican ticket since Dewey in 1948 and Hoover in 1932. Whatever else she might represent to Republicans outside her base, she has the stink of failure about her.
b) Palin's primary concern over the next year or so is going to be staying in office and out of jail. She has been a charming governor for Alaska, but also an incompetent, petty, and corrupt governor.
c) Palin's low-brow antics on the stump have made career and professional Republicans very angry. If they feel betrayed by Bush's intellectual weakness and moral stupidity, why would they support someone even more clueless?
On the other hand, Alaskans are on the verge of sending a convicted criminal (7 felony counts) to represent them in the United States Senate, where he will be refused entrance by a chastened and disgusted body trying to clean up its act after years in the gutter. Anything might be possible.
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Republican that voted Obama, he at least has well thought out ideas and acknowledges that the system is broken and needs work or more than just the immediate "economy" front. actual thought out education and energy reform ideas *gasp*.
Now to see how it pans out. /hope
Now to see how it pans out. /hope
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I voted for McCain in the 2000 primaries. I was fully behind McCain when he started his run in 2007. I donated to his campaign when he was in dire straights and was about to lose his bus. But in the end, I voted Obama.
He wasn't nearly the man he was 8 years ago... heck, even 6 years ago... and along the way traded in being an actual maverick for just calling himself a maverick. I think that the party as a whole did it's best to try and pull the campaign out of the flaming wreckage, but there was just no saving it. Palin was the death-knell... I know a number of Republicans that she sent running over to theDark Dem side.
I still think, now more than ever, that McCain deliberately threw the entire race.
He wasn't nearly the man he was 8 years ago... heck, even 6 years ago... and along the way traded in being an actual maverick for just calling himself a maverick. I think that the party as a whole did it's best to try and pull the campaign out of the flaming wreckage, but there was just no saving it. Palin was the death-knell... I know a number of Republicans that she sent running over to the
I still think, now more than ever, that McCain deliberately threw the entire race.