OK, I'm sitting at my desk looking through slideshows and photo galleries from papers everywhere, and just became overwhelmed by the support Obama had around the world.

What it says to me is that America IS still loved. People want to see us succeed. America still is a beacon of hope for the world. Despite their best efforts, Bush and the people who think like him have not defeated us. They have not taken this country down.

Right now, I love everyone. Except, you know, evildoers. And Sarah Palin.

I just wanted to thank you all on making this election cycle awesome! I hope we call continue to congregate on Bob's site!

I tried to post this last night but the battery died on my laptop and I was too tired to plug it back in :)

I'd forgotten how awesome it was to have Keith, Gene and Rachel there but I was so busy hollering that I didn't hear the break in Keith's voice. What a great moment to savor.

Awww, Keith's voice totally shook there.

Yup, that was the point where I started bawling like a 2 year old. What a glorious, glorious moment.

sigh hangover

I remember that we stood up to talk and suddenly saw that graphic and couldn't believe it. Obama is the projected winner. I whooped it up and my love said "shhh!"

I'm deaf. She has amazing hearing - she can hear when the neighbor's cat is grooming itself. She could hear whoops and holler throughout our neighborhood and from then on the random honk of the horn.

I opened the front door and yelled "Yeah baby!!!!!!!!" The nice neighbors across the street voted for you know who. They're "nice" christians: pro-military, pro-violence Jesus as Warrior types. They fit right in with the booing assholes at McCain's concession speech.

They're assholes, but their our assholes. We have to reach out to them to see if they're interested in making our community better, or are they going to bitterly cling to their guns and religion? Seriously, this is how these people are. They don't want change. They're blind to the divisiveness they've engendered and participated in the past 30+ years. They probably think that Obama stole the election, ironically enough.

Anyhow, we're figuring out what the next step should be to rebuild our local economies. Goddess (Rachel Maddow) knows the big corporations cannot fill the void, not after people woke up and realized just how broke their communities are and how they helped their community become broke by patronizing businesses that do not keep the money local.

OT:
compassionista:
TypeKey was totally bogged down. I replied to your question. The short answer is read Democracy Now! and then HuffPo. My conclusion: any website that omits key stories is drifting right. Arianna likes contrasts and likes big business. I think she'll start trying to push Obama to the right. I hope I'm wrong but even with this landslide, I'm not expecting anyone but Obama to take charge.

Prediction: Obama will keep his website alive and continue to push us to get involved to make our local politicians responsive to we the people, not them the corporations. Since Arianna likes corporations, she will push back however subtly.

Hi everybody is this a WONDERFUL DAY!!!?????

YES WE DID!!!!!

Right now I love Indiana!

Ashby, it's aliiiiive.

And yes, it's still true.

And now a homeless dog will be adopted for the new First Family, one of my many driving forces in the final stretch of this great election.

I'm taking a break today and probably this week. I have a ton of stuff to do. Email me if you want: frictionsoul@gmail.com

Keith Olbermann has the keys to my heart.