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

[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.