It has not been since I was a little girl that I actually felt deep down pride in  this country. The swelling of the heart that makes tears come to the eyes. But, with the election of Barack Obama, I feel that sense of deep pride again. We are again the beacon of hope in the world. We have overcome the petty

Nothing can beat The Oregonian’s editorial today. So I will borrow heavily from this. And I emphasize the parts that strike the most chords within me.

“Through his historic campaign, and his impressive, once implausible triumph, Obama has already done something that FEW PRESIDENTS MANAGE DURING THEIR ENTIRE TERM IN OFFICE…

I have never seen a presidential election that was a done deal before election day like this one has been. He has enough electoral votes. He has won! I have been watching elections for years. And there was NO DOUBT that Obama would win. There wasn’t a pollster to be found that did not say he would win. It was done before the voting even started.

It is a proud day to be an American. It is a proud

I was a Hillary girl. I wanted her to be the first woman president of the United States. Alas, that did not happen. But, in the meantime I have come to be very very proud of this moment in the history of our

This election is a referendum on the far right. It will be a clear and overwhelming renunciation of the Republican party as we have known it for the last 25 years. Finally, the truth can no longer be ignored. Trickle down, and protecting corporations because one’s ideology says wealthy companies provide jobs and other benefits to the economy have failed and brought the country down with them. Finally there will be a devastating repudiation of this. When Greenspan said he essentially no longer believed in the goodness of companies and corporations, most people who have been railing at this nonsense for over 2 decades shook their heads. What lame-brained nonsense this was from the beginning! Enlightened self-interest my soft behind! GREED GREED GREED. License to take more and more of what one does not need! The moral basis of the Republican party for over 2 decades!

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How The Gop Got Handed Its Head

It’s a done deal folks: The next president of the United States is Barack Obama. While McCain battles to keep the states known for voting GOP in presidential elections; Obama is there too! Those very same states. He is so far ahead that he is merely poaching now.

And the post-mortem on how the GOP got handed its head on a platter this election is already beginning.