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From page 156 of one of the most-banned books ever:
"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill.
"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!"
The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a dead body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
I didn’t think it would happen quite this soon. I thought that maybe the tribes would wait until inauguration day. I was wrong.
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You are not alone in feeling this way.
Truth be told.
PW PLEASE don’t leave.
Maybe some of us are silent, hoping against hope that people will settle down and exercise a smidgeon of cautious optimism.
I’m not much, but you’re welcome to come sit by me till the air clears.
You’d think the pups would know not to jam the brakes so hard they be smokin’ so fierce.
Lotsa emotion, pent-up energy and specific expectations
I’m gonna err on the side of trust and verify, based on harder evidence.
This is a near-insurmountable task this fella agreed to assume.
He’s brilliant, well-schooled, street-wise & tested.
Immediate flat-out panic and manic snappishness are not my 1st choice of optional reactions before the fact.
Thanks much PW, Caw Caw, Boo.
“Lotsa emotion, pent-up energy and specific expectations”
Lots.
It’s been a long campaign. We’re all tired.
We held up for 2 years!
We worked our butts off.
We gave what time and $$ we could.We talked to anyone who would listen, and even to some who wouldn’t.
Then, we WON!
Shortly after, the exaustion that we couldn’t acknowledge at the time set in.
Our expetations were sky high and when they weren’t met, we caved.
Now’z the time to kick back for a few days, take some time off and regenerate and regroup.
If you thought the last two years were hard, you already know the next four will be at least as tough.
We kicked butt.
Now let’s regroup and get ready for the coming fights we know we’ll have.
Let’s all give Obama a chance. With the appointment of Janet Napolitano, let’s assume he’s on the right path. She’ll out shine lieberman and show him up for the fool that he is.
PW, stay with us, please. Continue to fight the good fight.
Thanks.
Thanks very much to both of you.
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I might have to leave for awhile. I’m not sure I want to waste time and energy fighting the bloodlust.
please don’t, or if you need to – please come back soon. we need every one of us – even, or most especially, when we disagree.
Seconded strongly.
i know how i’ve felt here sometimes, especially, these last few months – pretty lousy. but then i was in the minority and my views (primarily very critical of obama and congress) were not just scorned (that’s ok) so was i (with personal attacks both online and off). it was especially hard when it came from people who i thought of as friends.
i have no desire to make anyone else feel that way, no matter how much i disagree. so, i’ll say what i said before: we will disagree, sometimes significantly – but that need not stop us from being allies and working and arguing and laughing together – in solidarity and with mutual support.
I think alot of people who claim to be progressive need to read(or re-read)Wellstone’s(not Krugman’s)Conscience of a Liberal. Obama can’t undo all the damage,hell,even the people he’s surrounding himself with can’t do that. It’s going to take a long uphill slog through a decade or two at LEAST of hard work. Infighting over purity isn’t going to fix a damned thing.
Politics isn’t the only means of change either,it might not hurt to remember that.
i think Obama is trying to move the country on to a win-win footing rather a slash and burn zero-sum game.
Thank you, PW.
I am in agreement with the sentiments expressed here.
Dugg and recommended.
Yeah. I got that.
You know, it’s funny. I was one of those poor, pathetic Edwards supporters, scratching around in search of a candidate, asking questions about the last two standing, and getting my ass absolutely HANDED to me by the really rabid Obama supporters. I got really damned tired of having to open every comment with some version of “I am not a supporter of Hillary, I’m and ex-Edwards supporter” in order to hopefully deflect some of the vitriol. I stopped going to Americablog entirely because it got so shrill. So finding myself here defending the guy I got called out for asking questions about is a real turn around. I can’t get over the idea that he is putting together a team based on very specific skill sets, and if those people also happen to have some undesirable qualities, it does not matter, since he isn’t planning on utilizing those qualities. He is supposedly a pragmatist; that is a pragmatic thing to do. If the results turn out to be what we ultimately are hoping for, will it matter that he took a different route than we thought correct to get there?
It’s funny. I got an email from my ex the day after the election. He has been a Republican all his life, and voted Obama this time around. He said, “It is pretty self-centered, but I have already gotten everything I wanted from this candidate, less that 24 hours after the election. The rest of the world will no longer be looking at the US as a nation of idiots because of the role model we send forth.”
So I, for one, will wait and see what happens. I lack the ability to predict the future, so I have no idea how this will turn out. Perhaps you are right and he will fail terribly. Perhaps you aren’t and he won’t. But I don’t think that waiting until he actually takes office and can get to work before pre-judging and condemning him is unreasonable.