Post-election euphoria
Nov. 9th, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI went out for a quick walk today. It's cold but sunny, and there's an abundance of leaves, all plastered on the sidewalks and streets by recent rains like an elementary-school art project for giants -- linden, maple, oak, lilac, ash, euonymus, locust, and elm.
People have not taken down their Obama signs. They make me smile whenever I see them. Lots of people didn't take down their Kerry signs in 2004, either, and there was a bit of a fuss by Bush people about why didn't we get over it already. People didn't take down their Gore signs in 2000, for that matter, but given the hideous weeks of uncertainty that followed the election and the outrageous behavior of various officials culminating in the betrayal by the Supreme Court, that's hardly surprising. We're getting that in miniature here in Minnesota, with Norm Coleman implying that the only only honorable thing for Al Franken to do is to step aside, and then filing umpty-eleven lawsuits to -- wait for it -- prevent the votes from being counted. If I had a Franken sign I'd light it up with neon.
If I had an Obama sign, I'd probably have taken it right in to cherish it.
I still really can't believe we won. And I think we all won, even people who don't think they did. I'm still reading the Making Light thread on the outcome of the election. I can't read much at a time because I keep bursting into tears.
I just read an article -- I think it was in the online edition of the Washington Post, but I am really supposed to be working on my chapter, so I won't look for the link -- that said the Obama campaign had collected a few dozen experts in various fields to make a list of that subset of the horrific actions of the Bush Administration (the newspaper didn't put it that way) that could be reversed immediately. So they're going to lift restrictions on stem cell research, smash up the global gag rule, and let California decide how many noxious emissions cars can foul up its air with. Oh, and they're actually going to follow the recommendations of the EPA task force with regard to carbon dioxide. Amazing.
What still makes me lie awake sometimes, aside from the war, which really can't have anything done about it quickly, is the torture. I imagine they're still doing it, for no good reason and to no good purpose. I hope that can be stopped as swiftly as these lesser crimes.
Chapter 1 has 13 pages at the moment, but seems greedy for more.
Pamela
People have not taken down their Obama signs. They make me smile whenever I see them. Lots of people didn't take down their Kerry signs in 2004, either, and there was a bit of a fuss by Bush people about why didn't we get over it already. People didn't take down their Gore signs in 2000, for that matter, but given the hideous weeks of uncertainty that followed the election and the outrageous behavior of various officials culminating in the betrayal by the Supreme Court, that's hardly surprising. We're getting that in miniature here in Minnesota, with Norm Coleman implying that the only only honorable thing for Al Franken to do is to step aside, and then filing umpty-eleven lawsuits to -- wait for it -- prevent the votes from being counted. If I had a Franken sign I'd light it up with neon.
If I had an Obama sign, I'd probably have taken it right in to cherish it.
I still really can't believe we won. And I think we all won, even people who don't think they did. I'm still reading the Making Light thread on the outcome of the election. I can't read much at a time because I keep bursting into tears.
I just read an article -- I think it was in the online edition of the Washington Post, but I am really supposed to be working on my chapter, so I won't look for the link -- that said the Obama campaign had collected a few dozen experts in various fields to make a list of that subset of the horrific actions of the Bush Administration (the newspaper didn't put it that way) that could be reversed immediately. So they're going to lift restrictions on stem cell research, smash up the global gag rule, and let California decide how many noxious emissions cars can foul up its air with. Oh, and they're actually going to follow the recommendations of the EPA task force with regard to carbon dioxide. Amazing.
What still makes me lie awake sometimes, aside from the war, which really can't have anything done about it quickly, is the torture. I imagine they're still doing it, for no good reason and to no good purpose. I hope that can be stopped as swiftly as these lesser crimes.
Chapter 1 has 13 pages at the moment, but seems greedy for more.
Pamela
