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[tree_and_leaf]

I'm shattered; I didn't mean to stay up until matter in the US were decided; but I did, and I am extremely moved (and also tired and emotional). It's been a long night.

I must say, though, that while I am inspired by Obama, that it was very good to hear McCain's extremely honourable concession speech (and is it just me, or did he seem like he'd dropped a burden?), and also, I think this quotation from Alisdair Gray is appropriate:

LET US ACT TODAY AS IF THESE ARE THE FIRST DAYS OF A BETTER NATION

Tomorrow is, as the poet sings, another working day, and I will doubtless feel awful. But I'm glad I stayed up with my American friends; it's just a pity Prop 8 passed, as my friend P and his fiance will have to go to Mass. (or Connecticut) to marry. Symbols matter.

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I have just got up, and it's just the spur I need to get myself to work for an early meeting!

I'll freely admit that I initially had some doubts as to whether Obama was all he was cracked up to be, but I have been increasingly impressed with him since the end of the primaries and now inclined to think that he may be a man to make a very good fist of it indeed. Just as long as the population doesn't actually expect miracles!

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I'm entirely prepared for the Tony Blair effect to set in (cynical? moi?), but I'd rather have my hopes let down than my nightmares realised. In other words, thank God it's the Democrats.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

thank God it's the Democrats

Oh yes.

Any long serving politician gets tarnished - of course, some help the process along a bit, but even so it's unavoidable. Decisions go wrong, time rolls on, journalists get bored, and Churchill presumably thought that the public would vote for him rather than the NHS. It will happen to Obama. In the meantime, hopefully one can have reasonable cause to believe that he will make better decisions than McCain would have!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

In the meantime, hopefully one can have reasonable cause to believe that he will make better decisions than McCain would have!

Of course, we can never know ... ;-)

[tree_and_leaf]

. In other words, thank God it's the Democrats.

Believe me, I do!

[tree_and_leaf]

I think it's brilliant. I keep smiling.

He's not a miracle worker (and I keep reminding myself superstitiously of T Blair - but I never actually liked Blair), but I think he's a very smart guy and a good politician, and I think he could do a very good job.