A new president. After eight years as an international pariah, we can once again hold our heads high. All Americans can take pride in that, even if your favorite candidate wasn’t selected. McCain’s concession speech was so classy, I almost regretted he had lost. (I had consumed copious amounts of vodka by that point of the evening – I wasn’t in my correct mind.)
Arizona, California and Florida all chose to ban gay marriages by inserting clauses in their state constitutions. Not a highlight of the evening for me, but I can live with it. Frankly, I’ve already done California and have no intentions of ever making the state my home again. I have no desire to even see Arizona again. I’ve spent way too much time there already. And Florida, well I would like to visit the state one day, but I don’t see me contemplating eloping to the state. On the bright side, Californians did vote to make egg-bearing chickens’ lives a little more tolerable.
And of course, the state of Alaska has voted to return a felon to the senate. Let me see if I’ve got this right. In February, when he is sentenced, he will lose his right to vote in a general election, but he will still be able to vote in the senate. Don’t they vote on Very-Important-Things in the senate? Does anyone else see us jumping off an ethically ambiguous precipice here?
You Alaskans, you are just so cute.
Arizona, California and Florida all chose to ban gay marriages by inserting clauses in their state constitutions. Not a highlight of the evening for me, but I can live with it. Frankly, I’ve already done California and have no intentions of ever making the state my home again. I have no desire to even see Arizona again. I’ve spent way too much time there already. And Florida, well I would like to visit the state one day, but I don’t see me contemplating eloping to the state. On the bright side, Californians did vote to make egg-bearing chickens’ lives a little more tolerable.
And of course, the state of Alaska has voted to return a felon to the senate. Let me see if I’ve got this right. In February, when he is sentenced, he will lose his right to vote in a general election, but he will still be able to vote in the senate. Don’t they vote on Very-Important-Things in the senate? Does anyone else see us jumping off an ethically ambiguous precipice here?
You Alaskans, you are just so cute.
So, a mixed bag for me, as I’m sure it was for many people. But enough for dancing in the streets!
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