Doesn’t this feel a little like that last scene in WarGames where they are moving down toward Defcon 1 until the crisis almost-happens and they finally Get It and go back up to Defcon 5?
I knw he’s not perfect, I know everyone keeps saying the expectations are too high, I know he’s just a person, a politician at that, and I….so totally do not fucking care. I hadn’t realized how much stress and misery I was carrying around, personally, because of Bush & Co, not to mention the utter havoc they were wreaking on my country and the rest of the world. It just feels so, so, so good for that to be _gone._
(The feeling that for eight years, elections were stolen, and then that this gibbering idiot was making policy — or, more likely, shadowy awful figures behind him were making policy while he was the gibbering distracting figurehead — that was the antithesis of everything I believe in, that people around the world will hear “America” and “Americans” and hate me and think I am a willing part of evils I am opposed to, have been opposed to all my life — to no longer feel THAT — AND to have helped elected, even with one puny vote, the first African-American US President? Oh, joyous day. JOYOUS day, is all I can say, really.)
The greatest thing
in the world
is the Alphabet
as all knowledge
is contained therein
except the wisdom
of putting it together.
—from an old German bookplate
“Enhanced interrogation methods”. Yeesh.
Now with more pain and fear!!
Doesn’t this feel a little like that last scene in WarGames where they are moving down toward Defcon 1 until the crisis almost-happens and they finally Get It and go back up to Defcon 5?
Wow.
thanks for linking. I’ve been off the grid.
YES.
What a great way to put it.
//just cries
I knw he’s not perfect, I know everyone keeps saying the expectations are too high, I know he’s just a person, a politician at that, and I….so totally do not fucking care. I hadn’t realized how much stress and misery I was carrying around, personally, because of Bush & Co, not to mention the utter havoc they were wreaking on my country and the rest of the world. It just feels so, so, so good for that to be _gone._
Guantanamo has been a deep source of personal shame for me as well. The relief I feel is like a bad fever breaking.
thank you. =)
Me too. But I really really want to see the fulfillments of these starts.
The relief I feel is like a bad fever breaking.
YES. That is also a great way to put it.
(The feeling that for eight years, elections were stolen, and then that this gibbering idiot was making policy — or, more likely, shadowy awful figures behind him were making policy while he was the gibbering distracting figurehead — that was the antithesis of everything I believe in, that people around the world will hear “America” and “Americans” and hate me and think I am a willing part of evils I am opposed to, have been opposed to all my life — to no longer feel THAT — AND to have helped elected, even with one puny vote, the first African-American US President? Oh, joyous day. JOYOUS day, is all I can say, really.)
I’m so glad I can’t express it well.
doesn’t that just lighten your heart :)