the most memorable and poignant moment for me was when the news camera panned the crowd in chicago and landed on jessy jackson. he had a thousand-yard stare, and was completely inside himself. and then his eyes pulled tight and his lips pulled apart in tears, and i could see him thinking about his friend who'd been to the mountaintop and had died
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although his district may have gone to Obama...
Millard Fillmore and Martin van Buren MAY have been less competent then dubya,
but they were not "energetically incompetent"
they did not apply their incompetence,
but merely wandered ineptly through their terms of office...
and maybe it's just me,
but...
well, i'm not going to feel much of anything
until the inaugural, at the earliest...
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As for prop 8, maybe now that you don't have a science-hating-bible-banging-bigot at the helm of your country, there will be changes from the top. I'll cross my fingers.
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