Well, I think I will end my night of election watching. Obama has won…thus far without my state’s help, but so be it (come on NC, get those last few counties in!). I have to say that both the concession and acceptance speeches were excellent and well presented. McCain redeemed himself somewhat in my eyes by doing exactly what he should have for the good of the country and Obama showed us an even more presidential side with his Grant Park speech. I’m looking forward to the day he is sworn in and I have hope for what can be done in this country. Now in closing, here are some things I hope can be taken on:
Properly fix the economic issues and ensure this horrid bailout achieves some good result (if possible)
Get us out of Iraq (to the extent possible)
Properly work to rebuild/rewin Afghanistan
Curtail the corporate welfare that seems to know no bounds
Fix the copyright system and return it to its roots of ensuring the public good while protecting innovation
Fix our global reputation
Repeal/Rewrite the DMCA
Ensure net neutrality
Twitter from the oval office
I’m sure there are more…
Good night and just think, we should pretty much be done with campaign ads
I sure hope that when I wake up, the final states will be complete in the presidential election and that California’s prop 8 will have gone down in defeat!
Well, I think it is time to hit the sack for the evening as I’ve watched some news, Daily Show/Colbert Reports, played a bit of WoW (new alt ding’d 10 tonight), and of course wasted an hour or so cruising the interwebs (no, that’s not right…tubes…just for you soon to be ex-Senator Ted). Tomorrow is likely to be an interesting day, but at the very least this damn election is about to end
I hope by the end of tomorrow, we’ll be toasting Obama’s election, but I won’t assume anything at this point.
Night all and make sure to vote if you haven’t already…well, unless you support McCain and then you have my permission to stay home all day tomorrow and go nowhere near a voting booth
If you have early voting going on in your state and you haven’t yet voted get out the vote. obama. Remember that it is extremely important to exercise your civic duty. obama. Please don’t believe that the election is going to be a landslide. Every vote will count. obama. Enjoy your night and I will be back with some Halloween videos later. obama.
I found this at John Gruber’s Daring Fireball and I think David Sedaris makes an excellent comparison. I’m not normally a big Sedaris fan, but I did think this take on undecided voters in this election year was right on the money!
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
Just to be clear, I used to be very fond of McCain if not an out and out supporter. However, his decisions and behavior in this election show me that he has no strongly held beliefs that cannot be thrown out the window in an effort to amass power and position. Sarah Palin as VP is a joke and her place on the tickets shows that his “maverick” nature is simply reckless ill-informed choices without thought to the consequences. Honestly, I’m just as frustrated with the Republican party as with McCain and I think they need a good thrashing to maybe learn that this country is not God, Guns and hating/mistrusting those different than you. America is a melting pot; pure and simple. We have all sorts of people and ideologies within our borders and I hope this election shows that inclusion trumps fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
This is a guy who does papercraft for a living and wanted to support Obama, so he made a free Obama papercraft model available. I think I may give this a try even though I haven’t traditionally been into paper modeling. Looks like fun…
Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama participates in the first presidential debate with Senator McCain at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS on Friday, September 26, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)
I very much like these two pictures as they show the human side to one of the most amazing presidential candidates we have seen in years. The first may be him thinking, taking a moment, or praying. I don’t care which and if his personal religion means that much to you, I say … “GET A LIFE!”. It’s his choice and his faith. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
The second just seems to be him taking note of Michelle on the video feed from the debate. You can tell how much they care for each other. This isn’t just a marriage of convenience, but rather a caring partnership. Likely to be the best first lady period based on what I’ve seen.
I thought his web page could use this Failephant illustration.
I thought this was cute, but if you don’t know what the heck this is based on, please read about it here.
McCain suspended his campaign to help, but he’ll do anything but as he is trying to inject political gain into the emergency. I don’t know whether we should bail out the financial sector or not, but I do know McCain will NOT make the process better.
Well, the Senate has unanimously passed the PRO-IP act, “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act” (Barack Obama, you commently disappointed me on this issue). They did strip out the clause that effectively deputized parts of the US Government to act on the behalf of the content owners. This is now going back to the House of Representatives.
Here is the e-mail that I wrote to my congressman, David Price of the 4th District of North Carolina:
Mr. Price,
As one of your constituents who is interested in protecting my rights as a citizen and the fair use rights that currently exist, I urge you to vote against the bill that the Senate has just passed, “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act”, S.3325. It is now up to the House of Representatives to act sanely and in defense of the citizens of this country by telling corporate interests that laws that prop up a failing system and a failing business model (RIAA) are not in the public interest.
Please stand up to the corporation and say that the system needs to be fixed rather than simply passing additional penalties.
Thank you,
I doubt this will do ANY good as it is obvious that our government is completely in the pocket of corporations and cartels like the RIAA.
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