Sheesh, I go off to the U.K., am at the mercy of their telephone service for the line in our new home, and I finally get back online, check into DKos and its Chicken Little all over the place.
Change is happening, we may not control each and every detail, but it is happening nonetheless.
For the most part, I'm playing catch up here. Am I reading diaries regarding Obama's choices, weighing the positives, negatives, etc.? Heck no...the sky is falling.
Caroline Kennedy may be the next Senator from New York. Oh no!! How entitled does she think she is? How dare she have the connections to make her interest known? Kos expresses concern.
Seriously people. Judge her on her merits and certainly don't hold her very honorable family name against her. The same Kos who expresses concern regarding Kennedy is the Kos who recommended (and I followed that recommendation) that I donate heavily to Darcy Burner and the pathetic campaign she ran on the basis of her being 'one of us'. Good God, if Pee Wee Herman was one of us he could have run a better campaign. Kos can be wrong. Its true.
Nothing is an absolute. Nothing justifies an 'Its all over now' response. Reasoned concern, okie dokie, but speaking of betrayal, worrying about whether or not each and every special interest is being catered to, not so much.
Am I pleased about Vilsack? Absolutely not. But I hardly, at this point, consider him a sign of the apocolypse. I will wait and see what direction he takes from his leader. Remember him? The one we elected because we expected him to lead.
Loads of things happening right now. Some I'm pleased with, some not so much. But please, don't ask me to buy into the 'We've failed' meme before we've even got started. As a moderate I'm rather intruiged.
Its a few minutes to midnight here and I'm still feeling as if progress has been made.