Twenty Set’s Monica O’Brien interviewed several Gen-Y women by e-mail as part of her postmortem of the 2008 election. She just posted a piece on the role female candidates and First Lady-to-be Obama played and the ramifications of their presence on the very public political stage for future elections.
You can find my thoughts on why Hillary lost and what Michelle Obama represents to professional women over at Twenty Set.
Anyone else entertained watching Oprah squeal like a school girl over Barack Obama?
Forbes assigned Oprah to the top spot on the 100 Most Powerful Celebrities List. Millions of women clamor to be more like Oprah, buying the books, products, and services that she recommends.
And yet, even Oprah, has a soft spot for another high profile personality. She gushed profusely on her show today. The first since Obama’s win.
It serves as a reminder that celebrities are human too.
Did that feel like the longest election season ever? Maybe I was just paying more attention this time. I was utterly obsessed with election news over the last few weeks, which seems to be the case for a number of my acquaintances.
At this point it’s all over but the finger pointing on the GOP side.
A friend sent me an unattributed comic that just about sums it up for us. (If you know the creator, please leave me a link.) From the comics at XKCD
What’s really next? I guess we can now look to Obama building his team over the next few months as he prepares to dig into the Bush-push quagmire come January 20th. He got us to HOPE, and we gave him a mandate to ACT.
Now we all have to help him get the CHANGE done. I don’t doubt an Obama administration is going to give the blogosphere lots to dissect and debate.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek – it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers – in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
In 2008 I voted for change, I hope you did too.
Note the incredible lopsidedness of my person. I took the photo with my laptop and had the computer in one hand at a funny angle to get my head AND the “I Voted” sticker in, hence the unnatural shoulder imbalance. Seriously, my clavicle bones are a wee bit lopsided, but not so obscenely so!
On a more important note, my apologies for slacking off on the blogging as of late. I hope to get back on a regular schedule soon.
I swung by my local B&J’s for my complementary election day scoop in celebration of a certain Obama victory. I got there about 7:40pm. The complementary scoop offer ran from 5pm-8pm.
At about 7:45pm the owner came out, walking towards the end of the line, which must have been about 40 people deep and told us to “go away.” He insisted he was closing the doors at 8pm.
About 10 minutes later he repeated his pronouncement to a line that had grown even longer. But we didn’t actually believe he’d do it. “Go away!” he said. “Don’t you understand?”
It’s election day. If you’re in line when the polls close, they keep the voting going until the last person finishes voting. In the spirit of this election, you’d have thunk he’d do just the same.
But no. At 8pm he cut off the person in front of the door and closed it, refusing to allow anyone else to enter. There was still a line trailing 3 store fronts.
So now when I think Ben & Jerry’s, I think “Go Away!” Probably not the positive branding the corporate office was seeking.
I’m imagining the owner as a bitter McCain supporter. . . thus I’m feeling more forgiving than usual.
More than 3 million people have already watched this video on YouTube. Though just 2 minutes long, it captures the worst of the Bush presidency, but reminds viewers that change is coming via Barack Obama.
“Don’t Speak For Me Sarah Palin” to the tune of Evita‘s “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”.
As I noted a few days ago, some day attempts to ban gay marriage will someday seem as absurd as banning interracial marriage. . . The “Vote No” campaign has released a video to that point:
ATF arrests skinheads planning to kill Obama.
The two planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14, he added. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
“They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”
Which jackass from the McCain campaign is going to see this development as a talking point for voting McCain. . . . No one’s trying to shoot our guy, so McCain is a safer bet, even as a repeat skin cancer survivor.
Who knew Commander-in-Chief could be one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, despite the heavy security detail?
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