Rick ([info]shadowspar) wrote,
@ 2008-11-04 23:22:00
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Current mood: hopeful
Entry tags:politics, usa

Obama is the next president of the United States

This is awesome.

The vindictive, hateful, greedy and simpleminded rule of the last eight years has made a mockery of the great ideals upon which America was founded. Now I have hope -- hope that we'll see the USA coming back onto the world stage as a nation that's more interested in making and working with friends than in making and killing enemies. A nation that cares about people and not just profits. A nation that sticks to its principles instead of trying to find ways to work around them.

I've always respected the flag of the United States of America, but tonight I'd be proud to hoist her along with my own.


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[info]bardicwench
2008-11-05 04:56 am UTC (link)
For the first time in 8 years, I have hope again that the USA can be the people again, and the country again, that we used to be.

*hugs*

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[info]shadowspar
2008-11-06 05:14 am UTC (link)

A gigantor fly in the ointment mars today's victory, though: as [info]frickinmuck correctly points out, while the voters may have repudiated racism by putting a black man in the nation's highest office, they also endorsed homophobia in several ballot initiatives, including California Proposition 8.

Times like this remind me of how much I cherish the protections afforded me by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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