Holy cow
Jan 20
I was prepared to cry, and I did, in buckets. I wasn’t prepared, though, to be utterly gobsmacked by the content of Obama’s speech.
The “we will restore science to its rightful place” was – as delivered – almost throwaway. Which is as it should be. Running government on provable facts isn’t something we should have to fight for, despite the last eight years.
And then it got better. America is “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.” There’s a president I can believe in.
I also wept – and reacted most strongly to the same two statements that you did.
I had hoped for a crystallizing statement that would echo through time, but I’m OK with things as they were.
Except maybe Rick Warren, who used all the right buzzwords except “equality” (which would have been disingenuous anyway.) Damn homophobe.
*shudder* don’t make me remember Rick Warren, Robyn.
re. the speech, the bit for me that would work on a t-shirt was
Roo watched the Inauguration at school, and came home buzzing about the very things you mentioned. She takes a lot of flak for not being Christian. It is stupid, and infantile, but that’s the Bush-legacy America we live in. Anywho, I cried too – buckets – and had to watch the speech again on YouTube just so I could be sure, what the President said was really, really real.
He hit the ground running – I’m glad.
Hello again, nice to come across this.
“unbelievers” to me still has a ring of BURN THEM but I’ll agree it’s a start and a president for the moment at least I will join you in believing in.
NiC! Long time no blog comment
Yes, I’m not sure how I lost touch with your blog…it must have been back when planarchy was still running and so the link didn’t get transferred over to the new one.
Hope the photography is still going well ( I assume you borrowed a Tardis to take all those excellent Victoriporn ones!).
Well, I think it’s more that I stopped blogging really.
Photography… difficult. I miss the city.