That speech was great. For once, a President who's talking to everybody, not just the "We're going to use this mandate" of W.
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Nov 04, 2008 7:23:31 pm PST #9225 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Theresa - Nov 04, 2008 7:23:59 pm PST #9226 of 10001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
You know what is so strange. I live in a red state. But he made me feel like my vote counted today. President Elect Barack Obama. That sounds really good.
Strix - Nov 04, 2008 7:24:19 pm PST #9227 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am so thankful for the opportunity to listen to a speech by a leader who can make me tear up with joy and hope instead of cringing in dread or seething in contempt.
Yes. Yes. A million times, yes.
I am a language girl. Hyperbole, sweeping generalizations, symbolism, timing, pacing....yeah, I know it.
I don't CARE. I do NOT care. I wept, I clasped my hands, I said amen. I felt hope instead of defeat.
beekaytee - Nov 04, 2008 7:24:33 pm PST #9228 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
My jaded heart has broken...open.
I can't help but sob and sob with the realization that the thing I've struggled for my entire adult life may have actually come to pass.
I find it almost impossible to believe that there is a chance I can now be the one thing denied me over and over.
I can be proud to be an American.
Kate P. - Nov 04, 2008 7:24:55 pm PST #9229 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
What an incredible speech. I broke down crying around the time he talked about people listening huddled around radios in forgotten corners of the world. I see in him a president who respects and understands the role that America plays in the world, not as the bully we have too often been, but truly as the beacon we can be.
President-Elect Obama, thank you for making me feel, almost for the first time in my adult life, proud to be an American.
Barb - Nov 04, 2008 7:25:43 pm PST #9230 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
And Mama Biden. Love her too.
I totally love Mama Biden!
Barb, I took Hil's link to mean a kind of countdown until Bush is officially out.
Ah, okay. Like I said, way, way exhausted. I think maybe the red font hit me as being kind of threatening.
Kat - Nov 04, 2008 7:25:50 pm PST #9231 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I like Michelle's dress more now that I know it's sleveless and she's wearing something over it.
Shooting off guns in my ghetto adjacent neighborhood!
quester - Nov 04, 2008 7:28:12 pm PST #9232 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Shooting off guns in my ghetto adjacent neighborhood!
I have that here, too!
Hil R. - Nov 04, 2008 7:28:20 pm PST #9233 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Barb, I took Hil's link to mean a kind of countdown until Bush is officially out.
That's what I thought it was, too. I'm wondering whether, on inauguration day, it'll do anything with graphics or something, or just switch the text to "Yes."
P.M. Marc - Nov 04, 2008 7:28:20 pm PST #9234 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I managed to make it without crying until the stage started swarming with Bidens, and then the waterworks started. It felt real all of a sudden.