7 Responses to “A new President”

1. 

   Helen Losse November 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am

   Abd now, let the healing begin.

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   Helen Losse November 5th, 2008 at 11:57 am

   And now, let the healing begin.

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   sherry November 5th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

   Here is some good advice for a start, Helen, from Alice Walker.

   http://www.theroot.com/id/48726

4. 

   MSW November 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am

   Yes, and that they all passed those bans really does put something of a damper on the whole thing. I’m not terribly surprised that Florida did, though. We might have showed up as a blue state overall, but the county-by-county breakdown shows that most of the state is still solidly red. So while this election was a step forward, it’s clear that the United States still has a lot of growing up to do.

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   sherry November 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am

   @MSW, yes. President-Elect Barack Obama won a tremendous electoral and symbolic victory and we should all sing it to the rooftops. But he didn’t have long coat-tails and in my eyes, he moved too far to the right to get elected.

   I tend to agree with Avedon Carol when she says:

   You haven’t won anything yet. Bush is still in the White House on Cheney’s leash. The Villagers are all talking National Unity, which would be great if by that they meant doing what everyone except them wants (get out of stupid wars and don’t get into new ones; use government to serve the people rather than to help eat the people; universal healthcare and a real economy instead of a “service” economy; taxes on the rich – etc.), but they just mean “Do what conservatives want and don’t hold anyone accountable for the last eight years.”

   Don’t you dare pretend that the fight is won. We have so much work to do.

   That link is to an article about re-opening the move to privatize Social Security, an item I’d hoped was dead after this stock market crash.

   I put my hope in young people, who after thirty years of leaning way to the right and idolizing Ronald Reagan, seem now to have cried “Hold, enough.”

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   Jack November 7th, 2008 at 1:24 am

   I for one am very concerned what will happen in the next couple of months with Bush as the lame duck president of a lame duck party. Signing statement, anyone?

   As for Obama, the inauguration is two months-plus away. The election sure seems to say we’re tired of ignorance either feigned or chosen running the country,and it sends a seismic message to the rest of the world. I’ve already heard from people on four continents about it.

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   Jack November 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am

   Also, I got something from MoveOn today to that effect, Sherry, of going to work to make the “change” real. I for one am all-in, also quite inspired by the activism of my students, who have, hopefully, figured out that trickle-down really should be called trickle-on…