Comments on: U.S.A.

By: linus

linus — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Hello…randomly browsing blog and came by here…

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come i can bring you to a durian farm!!!!
Linus here…from malaysia!!! i was just in san francisco last year…

Linus =)
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By: Angel

Angel — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:57:28 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. Those are my sentiments exactly. It’s nice to see someone look at it the way I do.

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:54:08 +0000

Wow, no dice there. Are you cool with the proponents of Prop 8 too? I mean, win or lose, we are all part of the same good, but not great, country, right? Poor, benighted McCain: all he wanted to do was serve as a puppet for the far right. What a champ, taking it on the chin like that when he could be busy formulating new war strategies or working on plans to deny reproductive rights once he got in office.

By: Erin Prais-Hintz

Erin Prais-Hintz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:55:10 +0000

Thank you for the concise, positive post. I have been awed by what we have done for our nation. But I have been equally awed at the sour grapes that I have seen flung far and wide from the internet and blogosphere to in my face in my own place of work. I think that if nothing else we do need to embrace that we are team players and not enemies. My own family is highly republican-ized, which makes me the black sheep, but I have never spoken ill of their choices for political office. I wish that it would be that way with everyone. I am not offended by those who vote different than I do, I am uplifted that we each have a choice. So I encourage people to exercise that choice and vote, but I will never impose my viewpoint on you. I think that being a sore loser never helped anyone out, but I am mostly saddened by the snide, degrading and downright scary thoughts that are seeping out from those in our country who profess to be so patriotic and quintessentially American. We need to embrace our differences, united as one nation and show the world that we deserve to be respected. Thank you for your insightful post.

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:27:47 +0000

“For too long, our politicians have been focused on winning at any cost, even at the expense of the very ideals that inspired them to lead.”

This is exactly how I feel about McCain. I used to think that he was an honorable man who I respectfully disagreed with on a few issues. When he won the nomination, I was glad, because I thought “well, at least this will be dignified campaign.” I was so wrong, and I’ve lost every ounce of respect I had for him. Maybe because you live in California you haven’t seen so many of the attack ads that have been playing in swing states (not to mention the robocalls), but every move of his has been low and dirty. Even choosing Sarah Palin was a gimmicky move to try to win the election, rather than a thoughtful choice about what would be best for the country.

No pandering concession speech can make up for all of that in my mind.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:59:30 +0000

This was like a little blog hug. thank you.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:36:49 +0000

I really like your blog and I wish that I could support this sentiment, but I really do not feel it. I am glad McCain lost and do not understand what motivated people to vote for him. I especially do not understand those who supported Hillary Clinton and switched to McCain. I think he ran an increasingly disgusting campaign and I am so relieved that the American people redeemed themselves by rejecting him.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:13:29 +0000

Very nice post! I too agree that McCain’s concession speech was memorable. I cried a full set of tears when Obama won, and a half-set when McCain conceded.

By: Daddy Scratches

Daddy Scratches — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:00:51 +0000

Epilogue: The words “very difficult” in the first sentence of my comment above are supposed to have a line through them, because I was trying to be all slick with the HTML … but Maggie’s comments apparently aren’t down with the HTML, so now I look silly, not slick. Also, that same sentence should read “… if *the* past four years,” not “… if *that* past four years” … and I’m sure there are additional mistakes, and I know that commenting on one’s own comment simply to correct one’s own typos and gaffes is so gauche, but I am borderline-OCD (self diagnosed, of course), so I can’t overcome the compulsion to do so.

Basically, what I’m saying is, “Yay, America.”

By: Daddy Scratches

Daddy Scratches — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:55:31 +0000

I know it is very difficult completely impossible to say if that past four years were a price worth paying for the epic and historic thing that has now come to pass, but from a purely gut-reaction level, I must say that, when I’ve seen Kerry on the television the past couple of days, I have thought to myself how comparatively two-dimensional a Kerry victory and presidency now seems in retrospect.