Off_White Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Regardless of the outcome, the sheer volume of the turnout suggests that it's a great day for the US. Not only that, but the sun was shining while I was sign waving on the street corner today. Even Sarah Palin's god couldn't promise to deliver that kind of sugar. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 As I stepped into Starbuck's today for my free Grande, it began to hail. Dark clouds had gathered. NPR was just announcing Obama's Eastern rout. The poor girl at Starbuck's looked up at me and said forlornly "Oh, it's hailing outside. And here I was just about to take out the garbage." Quote
sobo Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 OBAMA WINS DIXVILLE NOTCH IN LANDSLIDE!!! 16 to 5!!! It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an election. My read of that same article says 15 to 6. That's a 6.25% reduction in votes for Obama, and a 20% gain for McCain. Just doin' the math... Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 What I'm looking forward to: Palin's first post-election interview. Quote
sobo Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I don't think I could watch that. Not after I winced my way through the Katie Couric interview. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Either that or her and McCain's head impaled atop a 40 foot stake, but I'll settle for the interview. Quote
Off_White Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated. Quote
prole Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Yeah, I'm looking forward to her leadership in the GOP for the next few election cycles, at least. Quote
Hugh Conway Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated. Eh? Palin is a head on a contoured stake. Quote
Off_White Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I don't want to hear anything about your fantasies of Palin on your pink stake! Ick! Quote
murraysovereign Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated. Actually, Cromwell wasn't "unseated": he died of natural causes. It was Cromwell who unseated Charles I, and then beheaded him. I'm not sure if Charles' head was displayed on a stake afterwards, although it was a common practice. Some years after Cromwell's death, when the monarchy was restored, the Royalists dug up Cromwell's skeleton and symbolically "hanged" him for regicide. Quote
prole Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 What's all this about Palin's pink steak?! Quote
Hugh Conway Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I don't want to hear anything about your fantasies of Palin on your pink stake! Ick! \ sweet jesus man! I'm not a breeder! Quote
ivan Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 What I'm looking forward to: Palin's first post-election interview. somehow the fact that i know she won't be READING it ruins the glee for me Quote
Bug Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Thank God Palin has no idea what God is about. Quote
Off_White Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated. Actually, Cromwell wasn't "unseated": he died of natural causes. It was Cromwell who unseated Charles I, and then beheaded him. I'm not sure if Charles' head was displayed on a stake afterwards, although it was a common practice. Some years after Cromwell's death, when the monarchy was restored, the Royalists dug up Cromwell's skeleton and symbolically "hanged" him for regicide. Thanks for the history refresher, I must be blurring Cromwell's coming and going stories, coupled with a mental image from some novel of Cromwell's skull on a pike high over London. Certainly a wild time in British history, one I'd not choose to see repeated here. I guess the moral of that story is that the pendulum does swing, doesn't it? Quote
Bug Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Fucking poor but free!! Yes poor. But the democrats are going to work to reverse that trend in the middle class. Quote
Off_White Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Here's the Cromwell bit from Wikipedia, his skull was on display for 24 years: In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, and was subjected to the ritual of a posthumous execution, as were the remains of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. (The body of Cromwell's daughter was allowed to remain buried in the Abbey.) Symbolically, this took place on 30 January; the same date that Charles I had been executed. His body was hanged in chains at Tyburn. Finally, his disinterred body was thrown into a pit, while his severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall until 1685. Afterwards the head changed hands several times, including the sale in 1814 to a man named Josiah Henry Wilkinson[85], before eventually being buried in the grounds of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960 Quote
sobo Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 They understand well the dangers facing President Obama. President-Elect Obama. Please remember your civics lessons... Quote
G-spotter Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Regardless of the outcome, the sheer volume of the turnout 64% of registered voters is some sort of triumph? Who exactly are the 36% who didn't vote anyway? Quote
AlpineK Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Who exactly are the 36% who didn't vote anyway? Slackers and Canadians Quote
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