Wednesday, November 05, 2008

a few observations

after spending the night watching entirely too much election coverage, i had a few quick observations about a few things i saw...this list may grow in the upcoming days.

1. was it just me or did mccain deliver the best speech of his campaign last night? it was nice of his speech writer to truly save the best for dead last.

2. did anyone else find if somewhat funny to hear obama scaling back a wee bit during his first speech as the president elect, offering a refreshing and rare dose of reality with phrases like 'it may not happen in the first term' and 'the government cannot fix everything'. really? i was saying the same thing during so many of his speeches as wild and unrealistic promises were being made...i was half expecting him to recruit david blane to help him walk on water to take the podium and offer free ice cream on sundays throughout all the land.

3. colin powell crying as he spoke of obamas election:: understandable
70 year old black woman weeping at the news:: completely understandable
19 year old white college kid breaking out into dance in the streets playing a bongo drum with tears streaming down her face:: please put the pipe down.

4. giddy man waving a gay rights flag with a peace sign on it in times square...um, obama is not a homosexual pacifist but if you start now you may be able to convince lance bass to run in 2012.

i know there are more, but even i have reached my saturation point for today...more to come as it wears off.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Loved it. The last three posts have given me hope that you (you being Katie the blogger) are back.

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

well put, my dear. -lmn

Megan said...

katie, this is one of those blogs that i just want to copy and paste on to my blog! you are so right on. another thought: did anyone else think it was odd that michele obama's dress looked like a black widow? put a fake web on her back and you have a great halloween costume.