Was up from two a.m. watching live feed on the internets, and at 7 a.m. our time, the live stream on the front page of the NY Times had Mittens' concession speech. So no rancorous recounts. Good.
The once and future President just spoke on the live feed from NY Times. Uplifting, accomplished, moving.
But I predict: there will be days of the media playing the blame game, there will be jockeying for position and attempts to block anything good that will be proposed, and the bloviators will be either elated or have their heads explode live and in color in the national media.
From a vantage point far removed from the continental US, am relieved, in that there will be no neo-con cabal surrounding a lame president champing at the bit to send people to die in Iran. And anticipate a leadership which might restore some of the respect for America that had been lost over a decades' worth of those same people being bullies.
What I hope? That the once and future president grows a pair and doesn't let himself be railroaded into buckling to the throwback neanderthalers who would restrict progress at the cost of hurting the people they purport to serve, but in actuality are serving global enterprises.
Am not so certain that will happen as thoroughly as I wish, but am certain that there will at least be an effort to hinder it.
I'm not an optimist. But one thing is certain. The health care system that was achieved in the first term will become a fixed reality for a majority of the people there, and that is a very good thing indeed.
The president's re-election will later be considered historic, I believe. And that is a very good thing indeed.
And for the oligarchy who threw six billion dollars into ads... well how many jobs could they have created with that amount of money, I ask you. Just goes to show that spending so profigately on negative ads didn't get them the bang for the buck that they thought it would. I will wipe away a crocodile tear for them, and suspect they will be able to write it off anyway.
The other point I would make is that a campaign lasting two years is intolerable, and stupid, and wastes time. Someone ought to grapple with that problem as well.
The once and future President just spoke on the live feed from NY Times. Uplifting, accomplished, moving.
But I predict: there will be days of the media playing the blame game, there will be jockeying for position and attempts to block anything good that will be proposed, and the bloviators will be either elated or have their heads explode live and in color in the national media.
From a vantage point far removed from the continental US, am relieved, in that there will be no neo-con cabal surrounding a lame president champing at the bit to send people to die in Iran. And anticipate a leadership which might restore some of the respect for America that had been lost over a decades' worth of those same people being bullies.
What I hope? That the once and future president grows a pair and doesn't let himself be railroaded into buckling to the throwback neanderthalers who would restrict progress at the cost of hurting the people they purport to serve, but in actuality are serving global enterprises.
Am not so certain that will happen as thoroughly as I wish, but am certain that there will at least be an effort to hinder it.
I'm not an optimist. But one thing is certain. The health care system that was achieved in the first term will become a fixed reality for a majority of the people there, and that is a very good thing indeed.
The president's re-election will later be considered historic, I believe. And that is a very good thing indeed.
And for the oligarchy who threw six billion dollars into ads... well how many jobs could they have created with that amount of money, I ask you. Just goes to show that spending so profigately on negative ads didn't get them the bang for the buck that they thought it would. I will wipe away a crocodile tear for them, and suspect they will be able to write it off anyway.
The other point I would make is that a campaign lasting two years is intolerable, and stupid, and wastes time. Someone ought to grapple with that problem as well.
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