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We’re Making The Change – Now What’s Your Hope?

Topics: Politics | 4 CommentsBy admin | November 5, 2008

I woke up with a hangover this morning. No, I didn’t get drunk last night, at least not on alcohol. I was drunk with the power of more than 130 million voters to change the world. That old Pointer Sisters song keeps running through my head: “We can do it if we want to, I [...]

I woke up with a hangover this morning. No, I didn’t get drunk last night, at least not on alcohol. I was drunk with the power of more than 130 million voters to change the world. That old Pointer Sisters song keeps running through my head: “We can do it if we want to, I know we can make it, I know darn well we can work it out”. So now what are we gonna do? I hope we restore America’s sense of self-respect. I hope we repair our reputation abroad. I hope we let the Iraqi people have their country back. I hope we focus on alternatives to petroleum for energy. I hope we get our middle class back and put people to work. I hope a black person feels a little more a part of the country they live in than they did on November 3. What do you hope for?

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  1. Posted by John Minock on 11.05.08 8:53 am

    I’m so relieved I haven’t started to ponder the consequences yet, but certainly second all of your list.

  2. Posted by TeacherPatti on 11.05.08 9:39 am

    I’m hopeful that Prop 2 passed in MI. Maybe my husband (lifelong Type I diabetic) will have a chance to live a long, long time. I’m hopeful that we will really, truly FUND public education (and not fund homeschooling, as McC wanted to do) by getting more teachers and smaller class sizes. And for the first time, I truly realized that one of my students can be president.*
    *I teach in DPS. I always knew one could be president, but now I really KNOW it, know what I mean?
    I am so proud of Ann Arbor, MI and the USA!!!!!!

  3. Posted by John Minock on 11.05.08 1:52 pm

    On further reflection, what a great time to be an investigative journalist:

    The Guardian talks to Sy Hersh …

    Like everyone in America just now, he is on tenterhooks. A Democrat who truly despises the Bush regime, he is reluctant to make predictions about exactly what is going to happen in the forthcoming election on the grounds that he might ‘jinx it’. The unknown quantity of voter racism apart, however, he is hopeful that Obama will pull it off, and if he does, for Hersh this will be a starting gun. ‘You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president's inauguration],’ he says, with relish. ‘[They say:] “You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.”

  4. Posted by admin on 11.06.08 1:52 am

    The actual Guardian piece was a good read; thanks. I’m still naiively utopian enough in my thinking that I wish our elected officials would address some of the abuses and violations that are already apparent, but ah well. Perhaps some return to a less-paranoid press eviscerating the Bush gang would be just as gratifying, if not as purposeful…