Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Tom Waits Election Exhortation Special
FYI, we've had early voting here in Chicago.
Last week the lines were huge.
Think about that.
In Chicago -- which everyone knows Obama will absolutely no doubt carry with 119% of the vote :-) -- the lines were nevertheless hours long and full of young people no longer buying the con that their voices don't count, eager to drive a stake through the heart of the last eight years of failure, ruin and lies and get on with the future already.
They stood in line because they knew that if you want it,
you gotta get behind the mule
in the morning and plow.
See you in line, citizens!
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Lines in NY were long AT 6 AM THIS MORNING. That's NY -- another state that "doesn't count".
It's going to be a good day.
Here's something to read in line while you wait:
Peggy Noonan, November 4, 2004:
The Democrats have lost their leader in the Senate, Tom Daschle. I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
Indeed.
David Essex anyone?
great pick, Sir DriftJocky.
geezpers man, I voted last week (Vote By Mail). can i haz my prez now?
bring on home, babeh, bring it on home..
Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun
The line here started forming up around 5:30am. At 7 it was long, but moving briskly. I joined a much shorter line at 8:45 and was out by 9:15. Slogging through two pages of judicial retention votes while thinking about Wopner.
Tonight: Fitzgerald's in Berwyn for the counting.
Have fun down in the park.
Are you at Grant Park, Drifty? Here in AZ I am excitedly watching CNN and thrilled to hear that Obama is the projected winner of Pennsylvania, announced 5 min ago.
Gee, drifty, ya think Obama will carry Illinois?
ktcosmos,
900,000 strangers is my limit, and Grant Park is on target to top a million :-) So I'm back @ the castle between stops to put on clean Ron Paul underoos and dive back into the night.
jurassicpork,
Like Godzilla carrying a shrimp boat.
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and a free democracy.
Today Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America. The first Afican-American president, the first president from an urban, northern state since John F. Kennedy.
Barack Obama’s victory is great, but the system that elected him is still in place. It is a system that encourages bundling of campaign contributions and an undue influence of money. Obama reached the highest office in the land only by playing that system and ignoring an earlier promise to abide by Federal funding. He has “moderated” his opinions on health care and wiretapping by electing not to “rock the boat.”
Americans seems to pride themselves in electing presidents as surrogate kings. The presidency of George Bush has seemingly vindicated that worldview.
We, as a people, must still work to ensure that a change in kingship is not sufficient: in America, there should be no kings at all.
Obama will do much to ensure that transition but our work is just beginning. We don’t need a change in course: we need a change in the system of government that has allowed such abuses to take place. Electing a different king is not sufficient: we must vote for a system of government that is by the people and for the people.
George W. Bush will now be consigned to the ashbin of history, but this is not sufficient. Until the economy tanked in October McCain was tied in the polls. The old, half-wise paradigm of democrats being better on the economy is what won Obama the presidency. Such two-dimensional paradigms must be discarded if we are to move forwards as a democracy.
Obama will not have the will to do this alone. We must be the motive force in a truly progressive presidency. This is as it always has been, from Roosevelt on down.
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