Thank God That's Over.

[attackfish]

Or, the only thing that could make me want to go through an election night is nine months of presidential campaigning.

Don't get me wrong, I love politics, the political process, voting, our democracy, yeah.  But my nails are chewed down to nubs.  Four years ago, I was trying to cheer for Obama and my country while crying for my childhood home, California at the same time.  This morning, I am all smiles as the hateful misogynistic Republican senators and house members went down, three states voted to legalize same-sex marriage, a fourth voted not to make it illegal, we elected our first openly gay Senator (and she's a woman, too!), first Asian-American woman Senator, and our first disabled woman legislator, and we reelected Barrack Obama!

I can relax now.

Comments

[lalunatique.livejournal.com]

For me, too, the reaction was not so much joy but relief. Two Russian students who were in the classroom with me when the news came seriously breathed a sigh of relief and said they were happy because Obama was better for foreign policy. That's what you get, I guess, for insulting a bunch of other countries and calling a U.S. ally its greatest geopolitical threat.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And the thing is, Romney tried to hammer Obama on foreign policy. The whole Benghazi thing? Romney screwed it up and then tried to claim Obama did, and then harped on it. He would have been terrifying, Jingoistic and untrustworthy. Worst combination possible.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

The Benghazi thing is interesting, because the insiders on both sides are starting to talk now that the campaign is over. Apparently even Romney thought he had screwed up by pouncing on Obama before the bodies were cold (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/the-strategy-that-paved-a-winning-path/2012/11/07/0a1201c8-2769-11e2-b2a0-ae18d6159439_print.html), but was afraid of backtracking because the neoconservative wing of his party would "take his head off." (And they would have, I think.)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Of course they would have. But a lot of the problem I had with him is that he pulled in some of the most prominent neocons to be his foreign policy advisers. He was more scared of defying them than he was of insulting every other country in the world.