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Whose house? BARACK'S HOUSE! Whose house? OUR HOUSE!!
My former student and recovering neo-conservative, Aaron, and I tonight in front of the White House. He changed his mind.
(below) Aaron and his boyfriend Nick, who is one of the ways Aaron changed his mind.
(All photos by Richard Bell taken in front of the White House Nov. 4-5, 2008)
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woo hoo!! party!!!!
looks like a great time-
Looking good. South Korea's attempt to strangle American politics has failed, and even the average South Korean people are cheering the Obama victory against the wishes of their government.
The bastards here did sneak in one final insult, however; California appears to have banned gay marriage, with South Korean funding and Korean-American support. There will be HELL TO PAY - and I will make that clearly known.
Fortunately, with Obama in the White House, it'll be easier to kick some asses here.
November 5, 2008
The Promise
For Many Abroad, an Ideal Renewed
By ETHAN BRONNER
GAZA — From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where such a thing happens.
Even where the United States is held in special contempt, like here in this benighted Palestinian coastal strip, the “glorious epic of Barack Obama,” as the leftist French editor Jean Daniel calls it, makes America — the idea as much as the actual place — stand again, perhaps only fleetingly, for limitless possibility.
“It allows us all to dream a little,” said Oswaldo Calvo, 58, a Venezuelan political activist in Caracas, in a comment echoed to correspondents of The New York Times on four continents in the days leading up to the election.
Tristram Hunt, a British historian, put it this way: Mr. Obama “brings the narrative that everyone wants to return to — that America is the land of extraordinary opportunity and possibility, where miracles happen.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05global.html?hp
November 6, 2008
Election Unleashes a Flood of Hope Around the World
By ALAN COWELL
PARIS — From the front lines of Iraq to more genteel spots like Harry’s Bar in Paris or the Sacramento in Argentina, the election of Barack Obama unlocked a floodgate of hope that a new American leader will redeem promises of change, rewrite the political script and, perhaps as important as anything else, provide a kind of leadership that will erase the bitterness of the Bush years.
Whether it was because of Mr. Obama’s youth, his race, his message or his manner, some European leaders abandoned diplomatic niceties to compete for the extravagance of their praise, while others outside the United States — fascinated by an election that had been scrutinized around the globe — reached for their most telling comparisons.
“There is the feeling that for the first time since Kennedy, America has a different kind of leader,” said Alejandro Saks, an Argentine script writer at the packed Sacramento bar in the trendy Palermo district of Buenos Aires, where the Obama victory drew a thunderous roar of approval. Or, as Ersin Kalaycioglu, a professor of political science in Istanbul, put it, “the U.S. needs a facelift and he’s the one who can give it.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/06worldreax.html?ref=politics
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans..."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, January 20, 1961
Watch this, marching orders:
Ok ~ find me the John Lewis one now....
I'm melting.....melting.....
mkh--NPR this morning.
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