tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226171087540524331.post1827275274490775640..comments2023-10-11T16:33:22.207+09:00Comments on Aiyakki's Window: Election 2008Conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12211880924234536195noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226171087540524331.post-10906593315966328412009-01-11T20:12:00.000+09:002009-01-11T20:12:00.000+09:00And so much more has happened since then, before h...And so much more has happened since then, before he has even taken office! The election, for me, was the first time I've felt proud of being American since JFK was shot when I was twelve. That was followed by the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Robert Kennedy while I was still in high school, then the heightening of the Vietnam War and the invasion of Cambodia while I was in college. I tuned out for years, not even knowing who our VP was for several terms, then the frustration of Reagan's ignoring the AIDS epidemic and his re-election, the two Iraq wars, the Bush years, and the total discouragement I felt when he was re-elected. So this is something to feel proud of. To see so reasonable, so educated and yet modest a figure, a true leader and an orator elected is pure heaven. I eagerly await his stepping into the helm.Barbara Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13901758086446721254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226171087540524331.post-11443377244136648082008-11-11T16:37:00.000+09:002008-11-11T16:37:00.000+09:00Hey Nathan: SF and I are currently in San Fran, wh...Hey Nathan: SF and I are currently in San Fran, where we spent a week doing data entry for the Obama campaign and generally having an amazing time talking to people and seeing some incredible trees (also, fantastic food). It's been revelatory being here, really feels epochal. We watched the acceptance speech through the doors of a security guard's van, with a bunch of strangers, and it was like the whole country was holding its breath (then releasing it really, really loudly). Exciting (?!) to hear today that among the first of the President-Elect's actions will be the dissolution of Guantanamo Bay and an end to drilling in protected areas. Four more years!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com