Everybody Stop With The Waterworks Already
Jeez, it's bad enough that JQ cries every time Obama says anything, even "the" or "and," but now everybody on the teevee is doing likewise. Gene Robinson was barely able to keep it together, now Doris Kearns Goodwin is getting all weepy... Not me though, nosirree...
Jeez, it's bad enough that JQ cries every time Obama says anything, even "the" or "and," but now everybody on the teevee is doing likewise. Gene Robinson was barely able to keep it together, now Doris Kearns Goodwin is getting all weepy... Not me though, nosirree...
posted by Winston Smith at
12:34 AM
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I think I'm too much of a combination of young and male to cry.
But if I could, I would.
'Cause this is amazing.
if you'd prefer to laugh, check out Derbyshire blowing a gasket over at the Corner:
"The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate! And that shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown!...
"What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama, and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters."
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh out loud.
Sorry, that was too important of a moment NOT to cry.
I don't plan on continuing to cry, but both McCain and Obama's speeches last night were amazing.
Now we get to return to the realities of the country, and the hard work we have ahead of us.
And if someone things that's something to gloat over, they're a fool.
Re: McCain's speech - Andrew Sullivan described it exactly right, I think: a speech "finally worthy of the man we once thought we knew."
It is unfortunate that McCain waited until his concession to display his most civic virtues, but it is fortunate that they made a reappearance.
Some of my coworkers were downtown in Grant Park last night at Obama's rally, and the word is that they had planned fireworks that Obama subsequently canned because it would have been an "unpresidential" display - it looks as if he got the Philosoraptor memo about not gloating. Obama and McCain were equally gracious last night - one in victory, the other in defeat.
Yesterday was a good day for America.
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