After a day full of inauguration festivities, civic pride, new beginnings, and a lot of pomp and circumstance, I came home to catch up on TV. While I was flipping around, I saw that Bravo had West Wing on.... at the wrong time. Bravo has it on in the morning, and this was 6pm. So I took a closer look and found they were replaying the Santos inauguration. Of course, I watched it - and unlike today's ceremony, it brought tears to my eyes. If only the Bartlet administration were real (and you know, Leo hadn't died...).
Yes, I did watch the inauguration and the speech - and aside from only mentioning the environment ONCE and only halfheartedly at that, I found it to be pretty good. It was definitely a speech written to a downtrodden audience, but we are a downtrodden country right now. Hopefully in 4 years when we have another inauguration, the speech will be a lot more positive. We'll see if Obama can bring about the changes he's promised.
I was impressed with Michelle Obama's wardrobe choices. She was totally channeling Jackie O. I was always impressed with Laura Bush - she dressed very well, and completely age appropriate. Nary a hair out of place on that one. But she's older than Michelle Obama and her wardrobe reflected that (and rightly so). I'm enjoying the fact that we now have a first lady who buys (some of) her clothes at J. Crew.
I did scratch my head at the colors Sasha was wearing... they might be trendy today, but those pictures are going down in history. People are going to wonder about the orange and red in a few years!
Showing posts with label 2008 presidential election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 presidential election. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Only 1 of the 3 ballot questions went my way. But I guess 1 out of 3 is better than 0 out of 3. And there won't be any more greyhound racing in the Commonwealth!
Well, we can all agree that we just had a historic election. The President of the United States, for the first time, is not white. Only 40 years have elapsed from the assassination of Martin Luther King to the election of Barack Obama. I'd like to say that racism is now behind us in this country, but it's not. However, this is a HUGE step in the right direction. Go us. Now I'd REALLY like to see a woman as a President, but that's going to take a few more years (any other woman on the planet other than Sarah Palin, that is). I think that's a few years down the road, but it will happen sooner than later.
I absolutely adore President Elect Obama's environmental policy. The days of not taking center stage in the environmental ring because we're sulking that China is a bigger polluter than we are, and yet they don't have stringent restrictions are over. We need to take the high road, we need to be the leaders in cleaning up the planet, and we need to deal with the fact that some countries are going to drag their feet. Instead of acting like a petulant child slamming their bedroom door and not participating in family dinner, we might finally be the role model the child needs. Obama's plan has us catching up with the EU's recycling and emmisions policies, and it will force American businesses to make a choice: pollute less, or pay up. We're on the right track. We should have been the forerunners from the beginning, but we weren't, and there's nothing we can do about that now. It's time to make up for past mistakes (and though Bush is 100% to blame for the non existant envronmental policy in the last 8 years, I don't think Clinton did all he could have, either) and realize that we do need to make some changes.
I hope Obama can do it. He said he could, now let's see what happens.
Well, we can all agree that we just had a historic election. The President of the United States, for the first time, is not white. Only 40 years have elapsed from the assassination of Martin Luther King to the election of Barack Obama. I'd like to say that racism is now behind us in this country, but it's not. However, this is a HUGE step in the right direction. Go us. Now I'd REALLY like to see a woman as a President, but that's going to take a few more years (any other woman on the planet other than Sarah Palin, that is). I think that's a few years down the road, but it will happen sooner than later.
I absolutely adore President Elect Obama's environmental policy. The days of not taking center stage in the environmental ring because we're sulking that China is a bigger polluter than we are, and yet they don't have stringent restrictions are over. We need to take the high road, we need to be the leaders in cleaning up the planet, and we need to deal with the fact that some countries are going to drag their feet. Instead of acting like a petulant child slamming their bedroom door and not participating in family dinner, we might finally be the role model the child needs. Obama's plan has us catching up with the EU's recycling and emmisions policies, and it will force American businesses to make a choice: pollute less, or pay up. We're on the right track. We should have been the forerunners from the beginning, but we weren't, and there's nothing we can do about that now. It's time to make up for past mistakes (and though Bush is 100% to blame for the non existant envronmental policy in the last 8 years, I don't think Clinton did all he could have, either) and realize that we do need to make some changes.
I hope Obama can do it. He said he could, now let's see what happens.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
vote early, vote often
Did you vote today? I'm anxiously awaiting the results of the questions on the MA ballot. I love how CNN announced the Obama won Vermont with 0% of the precincts. And they announced South Carolina will go to McCain, even though Obama is winning there right now. I know they're probably going to be right, but it's just a little odd to see it.
This is my 3rd presidential election - the first being the shitshow that was 2000. That was a fun election; we had an Election Night gathering in the North Lounge in Cushing at Saint A's. There was excitement at the beginning of the night... around midnight people were walking around in circles muttering bad things about Florida. People would begin saying worse things about Florida in the coming days, but that night we didn't know how bad it was going to get. I have no memory of the 2004 election. Probably because the thought of 4 more years of Bush was sending me into a deep depression.
I hope everyone voted, and if you live in MA, I hope you voted the right way on the ballot questions!
This is my 3rd presidential election - the first being the shitshow that was 2000. That was a fun election; we had an Election Night gathering in the North Lounge in Cushing at Saint A's. There was excitement at the beginning of the night... around midnight people were walking around in circles muttering bad things about Florida. People would begin saying worse things about Florida in the coming days, but that night we didn't know how bad it was going to get. I have no memory of the 2004 election. Probably because the thought of 4 more years of Bush was sending me into a deep depression.
I hope everyone voted, and if you live in MA, I hope you voted the right way on the ballot questions!
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