Remember this? Sorry Everybody

(I was all, "aaarrrghhh, she said the "A" word! Undo it, undo it!)

Vonnie, its possible we just did.

I keep feeling like the country was derailed by assassinations forty years ago and we might just be getting back on track now. Of course we can never get those people back and so much has been lost... but their passion and vigor are coming back to us if we just have the nerve to take hold of them.

My upstate NY county is blue completely surrounded on all sides by red. Our county government is Republican, and the city, Democrat. I seriously think we went blue because we are the only county in the area with any significan number of African Americans, or minorities at all. Growing up in the largest town of the county south of us, I went to school with 5 black students that I can think of and three of them were underpriviledged foster children.

Um....

Palin Once Greeted McCain Staff Wearing Only A Towel

Also, she spent way-more on clothes than has been reported. And,

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

Steve Schmidt was one who originally advocated Palin to McCain. Yesterday (before the results were known) he refused to say whether Palin had been a benefit to McCain's campaign.

PopWatch presents the best election night soundbites: [link]

From BBC America:

8:18 p.m.

David Dimbelby [To a Republican strategist] "Strategist is a very curious job. What did you do for the Republican party that's led them to the pickle they're in?"

MSNBC

8:55 p.m.

Chris Matthews, speaking to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: "It looks like the whole House of Representatives, the Republican caucus, has gone to hell since you left."

Weird - I just read two different foreign accounts comparing Obama winning to the fall of the Berlin wall. (One said Obama's win was "ten times more significant" or somesuch.)

Anyway, here's the other account:

Quote of the day: "We are all Americans"

"Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: 'Yes we can.' While it is impossible to joke with genocide or disaster, it is equally impossible to joke with an event that makes you weep for joy. The first worldwide good news since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 needs more than a pirouette or an amused wink. At this moment -- but for how long ? -- we can say with far more conviction than on 11 September 2001: we are all Americans."

-- Robert Solé, an editorial writer for Le Monde, writing in English in an apology titled "Sorry we can't, par Robert Solé."

Other things I learned today from Le Monde: Michael Crichton died?

I just saw that too. Hollywood Reporter says he had cancer:

[link]

NBC-WSJ GOP pollster Neil Newhouse did a post-election survey last night, and here's what he found: Just 12% of those surveyed believed Palin should be the GOP's new leader; instead 29% of voters said Romney, followed by 20% who say Huckabee. Among GOPers, it was Romney 33%, Huckabee 20% and Palin 18%.

So the people who say Republicans should gather behind Palin as the new leader of the party are in the minority....

The Starbursts Fade

WTF were the "starbursts" anyway?

From KOS:

On January, 20, 1993, Maya Angelou spoke these words at the Bill Clinton inauguration and they ring truer this morning than ever before:

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.

I remember hearing that on the radio! For me, that symbolizes the hope immediately after Clinton's election far more than that song "Don't stop (thinking about tomorrow)" did....