Post-Election Thoughts
Election night was electric! I tried to get into the Obama California HQ party to watch the returns, but by the time we got there at 8 p.m. the place was already at its 5,000 person limit.
Severely disappointed, we ended up at Q's, a local bar near my house, and got there right as John McCain was about to give his concession speech.
Q's is a loud, crowded sports bar, but on that night every plasma TV they had was set to the news. You could have heard a pin drop as all eyes and ears in the bar focused intently on history in the making.
I actually got misty-eyed as Obama delivered a speech that will surely go down as one of the most stirring orations in recent memory. People in the bar cheered his words as though the Lakers had just won another championship.
I would have given anything to have been in Chicago to see the whole thing live and in person.
As it turned out, the victory of Obama and Democrats gaining several Congressional seats were the only positives of the night.
Minnesota appears to have re-elected Norm Coleman-R, and Michele "McCarthy" Bachmann-R; and Prop. 8 (gay marriage ban) passed in California.
Can somebody tell me how the hell we in California passed a proposition to give chickens more freedom and a mandated cage-free existence, while at the same time also voting for a law that in effect puts the shackles on gay peoples' happiness and freedom?
Ah, well. The gay people got there revenge by holding a massive protest today in West L.A. in front of the enormous Mormon Church on Santa Monica Blvd. (The Mormon church in Utah donated over $25 million for the passage of Prop. 8 in California...glad to see they have their priorities straight...don't use that money to help starving children or homeless families...let's keep the gays down!!).
The protest spilled into the street stopping traffic completely, and making me late for my tennis lessons, which of course made me all the more angry at the people and organizations who supported Prop 8.
I say if gay people really want to get the country's attention they need to take a page out of the Rodney King L.A. riots. Smash windows, loot businesses, set police cars on fire. That seemed to work when minorities wanted to get the LAPD back in line back in 1992.
Or they could take the Gandhi approach and go on a hungry strike.
But having a protest in the middle of a major street artery isn't exactly going to endear most Angelenos to your cause.
Severely disappointed, we ended up at Q's, a local bar near my house, and got there right as John McCain was about to give his concession speech.
Q's is a loud, crowded sports bar, but on that night every plasma TV they had was set to the news. You could have heard a pin drop as all eyes and ears in the bar focused intently on history in the making.
I actually got misty-eyed as Obama delivered a speech that will surely go down as one of the most stirring orations in recent memory. People in the bar cheered his words as though the Lakers had just won another championship.
I would have given anything to have been in Chicago to see the whole thing live and in person.
As it turned out, the victory of Obama and Democrats gaining several Congressional seats were the only positives of the night.
Minnesota appears to have re-elected Norm Coleman-R, and Michele "McCarthy" Bachmann-R; and Prop. 8 (gay marriage ban) passed in California.
Can somebody tell me how the hell we in California passed a proposition to give chickens more freedom and a mandated cage-free existence, while at the same time also voting for a law that in effect puts the shackles on gay peoples' happiness and freedom?
Ah, well. The gay people got there revenge by holding a massive protest today in West L.A. in front of the enormous Mormon Church on Santa Monica Blvd. (The Mormon church in Utah donated over $25 million for the passage of Prop. 8 in California...glad to see they have their priorities straight...don't use that money to help starving children or homeless families...let's keep the gays down!!).
The protest spilled into the street stopping traffic completely, and making me late for my tennis lessons, which of course made me all the more angry at the people and organizations who supported Prop 8.
I say if gay people really want to get the country's attention they need to take a page out of the Rodney King L.A. riots. Smash windows, loot businesses, set police cars on fire. That seemed to work when minorities wanted to get the LAPD back in line back in 1992.
Or they could take the Gandhi approach and go on a hungry strike.
But having a protest in the middle of a major street artery isn't exactly going to endear most Angelenos to your cause.
posted by Nicole at 2:45 AM
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