Posted 05 November 2008 - 02:18 PM
Florida banned gay marriage too, right?
I know it will be a couple decades but I am waiting for the day that the U.S. Supreme Courts make it "unconstitutional" to deny these privileges to gays. (I call them privileges because really, the things one gets from a marriage isn't really what I would consider a "right," whether you are gay or straight.) I mean, the only argument that isn't religious is just that "well it's just dern always been that way and so it oughta dern stay that way." (Though the argument about whether "separation of church and state" is legitimate or not gets brought up a lot, too - that phrase is actually nowhere in the Constitution and is not an actual law of the land the way most people think it is.)
I hope Obama is as great as everyone thinks he is. I don't think McCain would have been as disastrous as all the liberals say, but I don't think Obama is as great, either. There are looooots of things that Obama wants to do that I DON'T want to see happen. And there are lots of other things that he wanted to do that he was entirely too unclear on the "how" it's going to happen, which also makes me nervous. Also, the fact that now EVERYTHING (presidency, House, and Senate) is completely run by democrats makes me nervous. Not that it being run by Republicans a few years back was better, but I like it best when there are plenty of both parties to go around, so that they can argue lots and give some sort of semblance of a "checks-and-balances" system.
But I am insanely excited about the history our country has made, and I hope things do turn around superbly like all the liberals would have me believe. And I of course don't believe the conservatives who think that now it'd be better to move to Canada, because we're going the way of the USSR. Puh-lease.
I really liked McCain's speech; he was very gracious and humble and supportive. It made me proud. I wonder what Obama's concession speech might have been like. And like Obama said, this is just the beginning. The country's not going to magically be an awesome place just because Obama's president, now. A lot of people seem to think so, but really it's going to be a while before anything changes, and who knows if those changes really will make us a better country? We won't know until it happens.
I am writing about Jm in my signature because apparently it's an effective method of ignoring him.