4 November 2008
Posted 4 November 2008 | Filed under Personal, Portents, PortlandThere are fireworks, shouts of joy, and strangers embracing in the streets of Portland tonight.
There are fireworks, shouts of joy, and strangers embracing in the streets of Portland tonight.
November 4th, 2008 at 20:39
Can i just say this is bloody good news (especially for the rest of the world)
November 4th, 2008 at 23:02
Same in DC. AMAZING. Honking horns, whoops and shouts!
November 5th, 2008 at 01:20
Well done!
November 5th, 2008 at 14:25
There was also celebration in the streets here in Madison. You’d have sworn the Packers had just won the Superbowl. Except that this was better!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:01
There was both rejoicing and wailing and gnashing of teeth here.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:49
Democracy, back by popular demand! Woohoo!!!
November 6th, 2008 at 18:42
Halle-freaking-lujah.
November 8th, 2008 at 09:30
Living in a small red town, we are one happy blue family. It’s gonna be a tough climb but he’s the right man for the job.
November 8th, 2008 at 14:38
Congratulations! If I may say, the thing that impressed me most, other than the man himself, were the scenes of the line ups! That’s Democracy in action.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:27
our new bike…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaderlab/3003444529/
November 17th, 2008 at 19:43
I must be the only Republican who rides his bike to work. Should I start driving?
November 19th, 2008 at 15:04
Republican commenters (this and previous thread): it’s OK. I’ve eaten food grown by Republicans, even, and it was tasty. I think riding a bike for transportation is more rugged-individualist maverick self-reliant true conservative than … Republicans. See also this. As long as that kind of messaging flies with the GOP, this site will proudly lean the other way. Anyway, the first family will get pushed down soon as i come up with something new to post.
November 20th, 2008 at 03:08
I was riding home downtown from a victory dinner and every block or so, other cyclists were ringing their bells and “woo hoo!”ing, and pedestrians waved and smiled and cheered at everyone in sight — total strangers, all, yet so happy and relieved after eight long years of national destruction by the Republicans. No one in blue Portland even minded that I was wearing red — the shower’s pass rain jacket I got at CC. It was really a memorable night.