I am not a gracious winner.
I am the type that chases my opponents out of the ring, out of the building, out of the fucking town. McCain’s concession speech was grand and graceful and insightful and where the FUCK was that McCain during this race? Who was the evil twin that did not protest when his followers made racist remarks, who blurted out any stupid lie that came into his head and then repeated them as if saying that shit often enough might make it be true?
I think McCain gave up, in public, on SNL last week. I think he started writing that speech while he was sitting in the greenroom. And I think it was the first moment of peace he’d felt in about six months. I think he will have a nice career as a talk show guest.
My back fur is still standing straight up, though. I have deleted the word "moron" from damn near every post I’ve made anywhere on the internet tonight. 48% of our citizenry have been saved from their own stupidity, and I am furious that we came so close to being — once again– the victims of that same stupidity.
And I don’t yet know what will happen with prop 8.
Motherfuckers.
I’m surreally relieved about the election, but my stomach still hurts worrying over Prop 8. I’m not even in California. But dammit, it MATTERS.
Some pivotal counties haven’t come in on prop 8, so it may yet be defeated. Not so much luck in Florida and Arkansas, although I’m not that surprised there. They’re more conservative. That battle is going to go on a while. Hell, in the 80s, it was BAD for you to be pro-gay AT ALL … never mind even CONSIDERING gay marriage. I’ll be annoyed if prop 8 passes, but I don’t think any of this will last. Give it 10 years. I think it’ll get thrown out or challenged on constitutional issues.
I’ve been crying happy tears all night; having Obama win is BIG! He mentioned queerfolk in his victory speech; his charisma means that we managed to sneak one of the party’s most liberal members into the White House.
I just hope that the Secret Service does a good job of protecting the man.
I really, really hope that the right thing happens with Proposition 8. But queer Californians do have an alternative: move to Massachusetts; we were the first to allow gay marriage, and it’s still legal here. I would love to have a bunch of queerfolk move here.
Yes, I too was wondering who that McCain was, and where they kept him in a closet (probably in an Undisclosed Location) during the campaign. I sure didn’t see any of the R. folks speaking that that kind of length during the campaign, but then, I really wasn’t looking. (As in, “not watching that train wreck” not looking.)
You know, I love it when you growl and snap and lunge on the chain, it’s just so…so.. caring and lovely and *committed.* As in “dog’s jaws locked in somebody’s ass” committed. Oh my. I just love seeing that, I do. *pat pat pat–with hasty removal of hand before it gets taken off at the wrist*
(don’t mind me, I’m just having a bit of an Adams Family moment here.)
*coughs* Like I wouldn’t know anybody else who thinks like that. *whistling*
Agreed, the stooopid has been running roughshod over this place for entirely too long. I blame incredible laziness in science and math classes, myself. History, too, but that may have as much to do with dummying down the textbooks as people who never wanted to remember what the point of Magna Carta was.
I’m not sure if SF precincts have reported yet on Prop. 8.
It’s unconstitutional as all get out, and I’ve read several detailed posts on lj discussing how it would need more props just to implement it at all, so more expense.
Ijiots.
Not to mention that if properly implemented as written, it would require invalidating *all* of the current marriages into civil unions, because that separate but equal thang ain’t, in any rule of the land. Vote yes, and make your own marriage go poof, a*holes.
Oh yeah–and with Obama in office, we got some chance of Supreme Court Justices who disagree that money always talks.
Ought to be a fun time at the old national courthouse in about three years, I’d say.
I noticed the difference in McCain’s tone immediately and commented elsewhere about it.
But something happened tonight after the speech that set my blood to simmer.
Do you remember when a Republican campaign, (Reagan) co-opted Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’? Foolishly co-opted actually, as one listen to the lyrics would tell you that it’s completely wrong as an election theme song.
Well tonight, after McCain finished his speech, the music started playing. And do you know what they used?
Pirates! It was the closing credits theme song!
I am disgusted. If they played it without permission, then I am angry.
And if they got permission to use it, then I am angry at Disney for allowing it.
Our beloved POTC music, pirated by Republicans!
I’m hoping they just got the early results from the more conservative places and 8 will still fail. I am stunned to think so many Californians could still be so backwards.
And yes, I think McCain is relieved to get away from the wingnuts who ended up being his only ‘supporters’, if you can even use that word for mobs who preferred Palin to him and were mostly voting against the scary “foreign” guy, and who ended up scaring away many moderates or economic hardliners who didn’t like mobs of dangerous fools.
McCain’s concession speech was grand and graceful and insightful and where the FUCK was that McCain during this race? Who was the evil twin that did not protest when his followers made racist remarks, who blurted out any stupid lie that came into his head and then repeated them as if saying that shit often enough might make it be true?
I know! This is exactly what I was wondering. What a long, strange race it’s been.
I’m probably going to regret psychoanalyzing dude I do not know, but I think McCain was back in Hanoi for most of the race, mentally and spiritually.
Again, you may wish to kick me, but I think McCain’s story is rather tragic.
California is mostly Arkansas, with a little California on the (left) side of the state. I am not at all surprised Prop 8 passed. Aside from being deeply saddened personally, I am concerned by the obscene attempt to use the state as the church’s crowbar on this matter, and I am worried about the precedent set by using rights-restrictive language in a constitutional amendment.
On the bright side, we now have Michelle Obama as First Lady, and NOT Sarah Palin as Vice. And Nagasvoice makes the point which makes me happiest: working toward a more progressive Supreme Court. That is change you can believe in.
I do agree with you, McCain’s is a tragic one. And had he won– there would have been tragedy in abundance for us all…
Prop 8 is a church law, and I guess I’ll be getting to work immediately towards getting it put down.
*looks around* What? I missed the growling and snapping and bristling back fur and excessive use of the word “moron”?
No? There will be more? *pulls up a chair* I think it’s kinda hawt.
I took notes… we could use it in an ep, huh? *_*
My daughter had some really brilliant words to say along these lines as well. She, like you, said she felt bad for Mccain, deserted by the centrists who had convinced him, after all, to go into this campaign.
so, yeah, i do hear you!
but– it’s cold in New Hampshire, and it would be nice to be queer and warm at the same time…
At LEAST, Jerry Brown says it can’t be applied retroactively. Whether or not that’s so though– the wording sure looks like that to me.
pigs, sons of pigs, turds of pigs.
Definitely. I want to *see* these notes now. I know I have two pages of drunk/hungover notes. Although that’s probably not one I’m going to forget anytime soon.