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“Children running through the streets…”
Last night was an experience of a generation. Never before have I seen or felt the electricity that struck at a little after 11pm est last night. At first we heard yelps from outside, individuals cheering. Quickly yelps turned into children running through the streets. Thats right, when could you ever have said that in my lifetime (almost 30 years)?
There were children running through the streets excited about our new president. Later we heard what sounded like crowds cheering. And even people riding on top of cars, honking horns, driving down West End Avenue. It was truely remakable!
So now maybe, just maybe, ther can be some sort of redemption or vindication for the last 8 years of failed policy and failed diplomacy.
disclaimer: the city was THAT excited once that I can remember but that was when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994. Sporting events dont count.
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Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians. He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform. Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.” Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.
