November 4, 2008

• Happy Days Are Here Again

  
  HOPE vs. FEAR

  The history of America is studded with great breakthroughs followed by decades of consolidation and occasional regression. Tonight’s victory proclaims the end of the dark years of the Bush regression. It’s time for another American breakthrough. Click here to read more.

  

  So long sad times
  Go long bad times
  We are rid of you at last
  
  Howdy gay times
  Cloudy gray times
  You are now a thing of the past
  
  Happy days are here again
  The skies above are clear again
  So let’s sing a song of cheer again
  Happy days are here again

  “Happy Days Are Here Again” is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics). The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with Lou Levin, vocal (November 1929), and was used in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. Today, the song is probably best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s (FDR) successful 1932 Presidential campaign. Since FDR’s use of the song, it has come to be recognized as the unofficial theme of the Democratic Party. The lyrics suggest optimism and buoyancy.

  

  Even though I supported Hillary Clinton in the primary, I was proud today to cast my vote for President Elect Obama.  The line wasn’t bad at all:

  

  

  But my vote almost didn’t get counted!

  Election Worker:  You can’t take photographs in here.
  Me:  Sure I can.  I just press this button.  Snap….blinding flash.
  Election Worker:  You CAN’T
  Me:  I did last time I voted:  (http://weblog.xanga.com/CareyGLY/641073173/making-history-herstory.html)
  Election Worker:  It’s a federal offense.  Here’s your ballot.  You can take that booth (pointing).
  

   

  

  

  Election Worker:  I told you that you couldn’t take pictures!
  Me:  Gayle King said I could.  (http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081031_tows_fridays)
  Election Worker:  Who’s Gayle King?
  Me:  Who’s Gayle King??
  Election Worker:  Yes, who’s Gayle King??
  Me:  She’s Oprah’s best friend!!  She told Oprah to take a camera to her polling place and take a picture of her ballot.
  Election Worker:  I don’t care, it’s against the law.
  Me:  So arrest me.
  Election Worker:  I will.
  Me:  See ya!  (Walking away a la Tina Fey past Sarah Palin on SNL…snapping this photo behind me as he follows me.)

  

  
  Oh well, at least I stuck my ballot in the box! 

  
  Here’s hoping that vapid, idiotic, reprehensible, repulsive, moronic waste of a woman, Sarah Palin, is never again on a national stage. 

  The LA Times said it best when they endorsed Obama:

  Indeed, the presidential campaign has rendered McCain nearly unrecognizable. His selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory. The decision calls into question just what kind of thinking — if that’s the appropriate word — would drive the White House in a McCain presidency. Fortunately, the public has shown more discernment, and the early enthusiasm for Palin has given way to national ridicule of her candidacy and McCain’s judgment.

  And if you recall, I said it seconds after he introduced the crazy gun toting whack job on August 29th:

  President Obama & The Beauty Queen

  
  I wish I was home, in Chicago right now.  Doesn’t it look great?  For more, check out my blog entry from my trip home last summer:
  http://weblog.xanga.com/CareyGLY/660904934/the-prettiest-city-in-america.html

  Speaking of the Spruce Moose:

  From Newsweek‘s Special Election Project comes the real Sarah Palin. She met staff members in a towel:

  At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. “I’ll be just a minute,” she said.

  She raised William Ayers before the campaign signed off on it:

  Palin launched her attack on Obama’s association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain’s advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.

  And she spent far more on clothes than was reported:

  NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family–clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent “tens of thousands” more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

  Finally, Steve Schmidt (who reportedly picked Palin as VP) would not let her speak on election night.

  McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

  Read more highlights here. Read the Newsweek story here.

  And now FOX News of all outlets has this incredibly damning report on Caribou Barbie!!  (Update 11/13/08 – Apparently some of this stuff about the Spruce Moose was made up as a hoax. (To be clear, none of this means the Africa story is false.)  See what happens when you trust Fox News (where I first heard this story)??  She’s still a dangerous MORON, and I’m getting tired of her sexed up cutesy act on TV.  Save it for your white trash boyfriend Sarah, maybe you can double date with Cindy McCain.)  Gosh, it feels good to vent.  LOL

  
  

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