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Well, there IS a change! Congratulations to the candidate chosen by Lu (and Oprah, and Colin Powell, and so many millions of Americans). I found my joy — in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida — and Chicago. And I am moved, and very proud of this country. It may be too much to hope for a post-racial, post-anything future, but I am hoping for some unity. Hoping for an end to the “us” and “them” divisions, the false “anti-” and “pro-” America splits. We’re all on the same team, we’re all in the same boat — whatever metaphor you like. Protest songs in the past, redemption songs to come….
This is worth another look now…
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
– – A. Lincoln, 1861I’m sorry the inauguration is not today. There’s much work to be done.
It does amaze me the way that an incumbent president is allowed to limp on (and even push through legislation for which he no longer has a mandate) in spite of being voted out of office. I am sure that this happens in no other country than the US (with the exception of Zimbabwe, only there it’s not legal!) I just hope Bush doesn’t take the opportunity to bomb Iran or something equally insane.
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