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WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

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with exit polls filling our inboxes and RSS feeds, there seems to be two broad thoughts that bring people from all corners of the united states together under the obama-fold:

1: the american people are starving for change. exit polling is showing that voters cite change over experience as their motivating factor and they do it by a two-thirds margin.

2: among progressives, liberals, and working americans there is a feeling of community and togetherness that we’ve never felt before. enough with the rhetoric of hate, let’s be done with partisan politics and let’s just come together under the candidate who is DIFFERENT.

as obama said in his speech tonight, “…WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.”

this was without a doubt the most profound comment i’ve ever heard in the history of politics.

WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

i hope you’re enjoying history as much as I am.

puppy anorexia is a major political issue

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today was crazy-busy-awesome…so how about an old-fashioned bullet-post-blog?

- i’ve got a digital bathroom scale that has been going through batteries like crazy. after some investigating, i’ve traced the problem back to buster the dog. i think the little guy’s got self-image issues b/c he walks into the bathroom at least 5 times a day and stands on the scale. i know this because of the familiar *beep* that it makes when he hops on. i keep assuring him that he’s a “healthy” weight and that he shouldnt compare himself to the tiny italian greyhounds that live next door.

- picked up “the swell season” album by glen hansard the other day and have been enjoying some heart-break-acoustic music ever since. of all the tracks, i think i like “leave” the best b/c it’s written in my favorite chord progression of all time: E – C#m – B – A

i cant tell you how many great songs that are written in that heart-wrenching key. love it.

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- watched the democratic debates tonight on CNN. despite an invitation to join my friends at the Kodak theatre, i was stuck watching from my bachelor-pleather-sofa. nonetheless, i was proud to be a liberal tonight and even more proud to get to vote for one of the democratic party’s fine candidates. personally, no politician has grabbed hold of my conscious and held on to it with a kung fu grip like Barack Obama. This weekend I’m going to volunteer at one of his SoCal campaign headquarters, in an attempt to put him over the top in CA on super tuesday.

- are you reading “yes is a world”? if you can put up w/ me rambling on-and-on about music, politics and the buster then you would love nic’s blog. go there now.

- now you too can own a liznelson original. liz has put up a lot of her most popular work as prints on imagekind. go here and check it out.

- last but not least, i wore the farting shoes today. what sucks is that i completely forgot that my grey chuck hightops make the aforementioned farting noise until i was in the NASA Radiobiology dept on campus. Need I say more?

i would take a huckabee vs obama election

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a southern baptist preacher just won the republican iowan caucus. the very dude who is quoted as saying:

“The immigration issue is not so much about people coming to pick lettuce or make beds, it’s about people who could come with a shoulder-fired missile and could do serious damage and harm to us…”

-Mike Huckabee

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Merlin Mann described Huckabee best with this quote:

Mike Huckabee, whose foreign policy experience to date encompasses english muffins, chinese checkers, and sight-reading the bass tab for Toto’s 1982 hit, “Africa.”

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In more optimistic news, Barack Obama won the democratic caucus and rarely in U.S. history has there been such a striking contrast between the ideology of the two leading parties.