Still pinching myself.

[elisi]

Above picture snagged from Andrew Sullivan. He also linked to Joe Klein's latest's column, as well as looking back to one of his own articles, that I remember reading at the time (over a year ago). Just look at this quote:

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

And it's really happened! I just...

You know?

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And for his next trick, he'll part the Red Sea.

Seriously, as my President-Elect, I pray that he leads this country wisely, but I'm not joining in the adulation. I *will* give him my respect and support, and if he does something that I oppose, I'll voice that opposition and contact my Senators and Representative. I hope that I never show the blatant disrespect and downright ugliness that I've seen spewed out not only against the Bush Administrative, but against John McCain and Sarah Palin here on lj and in the media.

[elisi]

And for his next trick, he'll part the Red Sea.
*laughs*

if he does something that I oppose, I'll voice that opposition and contact my Senators and Representative.
Which is how democracy work - he is there to serve *the people*, and they have the right to call him on it when he gets stuff wrong. (Which I'm sure he will - at least he won't be able to please everyone, esp given the endless mountain of problems he's inheriting, poor man.)

Mostly, I guess, right now I'm just happy to see people happy.