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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]

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 ... ;-)