Posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:22 PM PST by roadkillcafe
11/5/08 -- What a great day for America and the world! Congratulations to you all. Now I can become an American citizen, I guess.
It was a momentous relief for me to hear a President mention “Global Warming” with the gravitas it deserves, not a nebulous concept to be buried under platitudes. Over the course of my life, weather patterns in the country of my birth, NZ, have changed dramatically. Perhaps we are more sensitive being a long, skinny island nation. We also have Antarctica in our back yard, so we feel any threat to the ice caps as our own.
I am sorry for Prop 8. The laws of a nation should be about safety and fairness. They should not enforce second-class citizenry.
I have my own issues with “marriage.” I think it is a throwback to feudal times. It ought to be phased out. We should have agreements that get revised at ten-year periods. I can't think why gay people should necessarily want it, but if they want it with all its strictures and ownership over one another, then let 'em have it. What's the big deal? What the heck are we afraid of sharing? Our sacred heterosexual rite?
Being raised in a moderately religious home, I grew up being taught that marriage was a Sacrament -- Sacred. I was told, "No one must come between a husband and wife." Then I would look over at a relative with a black eye meted out by her husband in the privacy of their sacred matrimonial chamber, and the bruises on her child, and I knew that was bullshit. There was nothing holy there. Only love is sacred and heterosexuals don't own that.
I am thankful that the days of anti-intellectualism are over. The last 8 years were like a steady diet of Ho-Hos for the brain. Both Al Gore and John Kerry were torpedoed by this and the vicious assertions of a wicked propagandist, Karl Rove.
Ironically, it was Karl Rove's own predictions about the outcomes of each state that we were following last night. He's undoubtedly a genius, but something got twisted up inside him and he should go down in history as a creep and frankly, a traitor.
Who the hell forced Palin on John McCain anyway? Some pale imitation of Rove? "Let's put another slogan-totin' cowboy up there, only let's put him in a skirt and get the wimmin's vote!" What a horrible mistake. And yet, THANK YOU!
I must say that Rob and I stopped the tivo and got the boys in to watch John McCain's concession speech. We wanted them to see how a great man behaves in the face of defeat. I believe he is a good man and if he had won the Republican nomination 8 years ago, the world would look very different to us now. Still, this diet of hotdogs with Clinton and Ho-Hos with Bush are what has brought us to a new craving for something holistic and someone substantial who will walk beside us through the dark days ahead.
The next eight years will be undeniably hard, but with Obama, I don't think we will feel so alone. Up and at 'em! L
Who cares what that washed up hag has to say?
Well after all, she did have a TV Lesbian relationship with the stupid blond sidekick!
BTW, #6 has surfaced on Burn Notice...
Ahhh! More intellect from a former Porno Star?
Stupid bitch.....
Gov. Palin has more competence and intelligence than ANY of her bashers. Who cares what any of these “celebrities” think?
Someone from such an asinine TV show ought to feel embarrassed blabbering to the world about her opinions.
But thanks for noting it anyway — we may not care but laughter is good for the soul and laughing at stupid actors is easy (since they are all pretty stupid).
Oh and lucy — please don’t become an American: we really don’t want you.
Yeah, maybe she should stay boxed.
Jealous much?
The prevailing intelligence of the world on display...
We’ll see how NZ fairs if sun spots don’t appear soon...
Liberalism really is a mental disorder...
Yo!
They shouldn't even let folks in for short tourist visits. Too risky.
I bet she is a person of high personal moral values. /sarc
Don’t you have a carpet to clean, Xena?
what a sad cynical woman
and how typical of the kind of person who couldn’t be happy or respect America until “Obama” was elected as world leader
I wonder how long the cult of personality will sustain them?
How cute. She has opinions.
Lucy, let’s be honest. The only sounds most of us want to hear out of you involve Renee O’Connor and a warm crock of honey.
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