I'm a damn fool optimist at heart.

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From boingboing.net:

Kerry concedes.
Four more years of a nation led by criminals. I was making coffee with one eye on CNN when the news broke, and I called my dad, a man who's spent many years fighting for good things, sometimes at great personal cost.
"Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when Nixon won a second term -- crushed. I just couldn't believe America was that stupid. "But remember what happened to Nixon that term." "Change comes from discontent," he said. "And right now, there's a lot of discontent."

Comments

[lucyruthe.livejournal.com]

Yay, that's fabulous insight from your dad.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Not my Dad, some boingboing poster's Dad. But fabulous insight nonetheless.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the optimism. Helps.

[omaha.livejournal.com]

was the senate controlled by nixon's own party, tho?

[azure-armand.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. I was confused there too. I thought that you were talking about your dad, who would also be my dad.