News Flash... 7 months later

News Flash
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I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me. Little truth here... I donated to two candidates last year, President Obama and I'm glad to finally say, Senator Franken. Now that the 2008 elections are finally over, perhaps we can really see how this government shakes out. A number of my conservative/republican friends have been flying off the handle about Obama being a crazed socialist (I think W started this with the tarp and the mishandling of the economy with the lauded strong fundamentals) and non-US citizen. You know, sometimes during the last eight years, I felt like a wing nut.. a tin foil hat.. a whack job for all the problems I saw in our government and the world. Now that we have a Democratic Government in the House/Senate and White House, I see my Republican friends are now feeling the same way as I did. I somehow feel compassion and pity for them... nah.. nevermind... it's over. I can't stand them again. Gov. Sanford is a privileged self centered tool. He's the perfect example of the Republican Hypocrite that wants the Govt. out of our lives but then wants the Governments help to put the church in our lives.

Okay, this is quickly turning into what I want to get away from. I don't want this to just be a place for me to rant. I want to raise the bar or lower it if were playing Limbo. Keep chekcing back for Liberal Not Stagnant 2.0. More political commentary and less mud slinging. It's going to be difficult because I get so incensed with people that.. okay.. I'm going to stop.

Thanks,
AK Khan

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Okay.. I'm late. Yay, Obama won. I'd never be able to describe how happy I was the night of the election. I was with friends, I was by myself, I was with total strangers... the entire night was glee. People were rapt with attention at the two bars I was at as the states fell to Obama. Afterward, I headed back downtown to the convention center to see the local and final results come in. The whole night was grand (except for Prop 8 passing and Al not winning yet... soon.) Okay.. so not blog until now.. why? Well, I felt like we stormed the place and shot all the bad guys dead.. but there was an easy calm and silence as the smoke began to rise. It ain't over.. not even close. It's never over... the fight goes on... there's Eric Cantor hiding behind a spittoon, there's John McCain trapped inside a closet... the gun lobby and the wall street bankers are fleeing on horses plotting to fight another day. To change metaphors from cowboys to football.... nice handoff Bush.. I guess I should save the economic collapse (I thought they said the fundamentals of our economy are strong) for another blog... just popping in to work out the kinks.

Yay Obama.. yay Dems.. yay science.. yay common sense and decency..

I'm out...

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