So That Happened

[snurri]

Holy shit.

I met my friend Pete to watch the results at Costello's, a bar just a couple of blocks away. I held it together pretty well until I saw Jesse Jackson in tears. But then, I cry at insurance commercials.*

I am wary because I think the expectations are too high and too many, but for today and probably for a while I am just enjoying the feeling of being proud of my country for the first time in a long fucking time.



* I wish I was kidding.

Comments

[stonetable.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'd swear there was subliminal messaging at work.

[douglain.livejournal.com]

I actually teared up when I saw Jesse too.

[douglain.livejournal.com]

"I think the expectations are too high and too many."

Could you clarify that a bit? Do you mean you're wary for Obama because you think the electorate has too many expectations?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I agree to some extent with what you've been saying, that Obama is more centrist than leftist. I've been disappointed with his stand on FISA, for example. But I think I'm more hopeful than you seem to be, and I'm optimistic that we'll see some changes on health care, energy policy and the occupation of Iraq.

[douglain.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite concern. I'm wary because the electorate may be pacified by the admittedly quite moving symbolic change. As to Obama moving to the center I don't think that's a useful characterization. These moves can't be called centrist unless we accept a new center because of how radically right the last eight years have been.

Still I'll give you this: It's great to hear Fox news reporters sound dejected, to realize that the rest of the world will see and hear a smart man when they turn their attention to the President of the USA, and to see all those blue states.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Do you cry at dog food commercials yet? Cause that's my indicator of patheticness. "Oh, that sweet, stiff old golden" *sniffle* *sob*.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

No--but I choke up at that Sarah McClachlan commercial about pet adoption, and the David Duchovny one about the dog food company that donates to help homeless dogs.

I will make no apologies! I LIKE DOGS OK SO SUE ME.

[jlundberg.livejournal.com]

Jesse made me leak a few tears myself. I've been alternately laughing and grinning and crying today.

[st-writes.livejournal.com]

I was bawling way before they showed Jesse....

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Jesse Jackson's what did me in too!

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

Yes! Jesse got me too! Can you imagine what he must have been feeling???? This is such a historic milestone....

And speaking of dogs--I loved it when Obama told his daughters that they had earned their puppy!!

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Dude, I feel you. I wish the news would STOP MAKING ME CRY. Oh, wait. I'm okay with it, actually.

[wheatland-press.livejournal.com]

Yeah, screw Liberty Mutual. And they run those ads during football games and totally mess with my tough sports girl thing.

Especially that carnival one. Bastards.