I voted today shortly before the polls closed and then went to a movie so I wouldn't waste two hours of my life wringing my hands in front of MSNBC. Saw "An Education" instead. Good flick. A bit hard to understand what a "man of the world" would see in a 17 y.o. schoolgirl, besides the obvious (I've been there!), but I'm pleased to suspend disbelief in the name of entertainment.
It was no surprise to turn on the radio afterwards to Brown's victory speech - the soppy end where he made an extended joke about he and his daughter taking on Obama and a player of his choosing in a friendly game of basketball. I hope Obama takes his offer and selects Lebron James as his teammate.
Now I will share a few thoughts about my impressions of this election, and to an extent, this first year of the Obama Administration, as tonight's election will widely be claimed to be a repudiation of the Obama agenda (whatever that is).
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