Current location:	PDX OR
Current mood:	relieved
Current music:	Cars honking their horns and people chanting O-BAM-A
Entry tags:	politics obama

The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
Obama. I'm actually a bit stunned, and still trying to come to terms with this. In a good way, of course. . . but I spent a lot of my life fighting the Federal Government under Bush, it's gonna take me a few minutes.

After listening to NPR break it down for us, and listening to the (I think excellent) concession and victory speeches, Gowan and I followed the noises from the chanting cheering crowds into the streets of Portland. It was mayhem, albeit a happy mayhem. Like a big protest, but the people were smiling and cheering and the cars were honking with (not against) the people in the streets. People were running up to cars and giving them high-fives. Please forgive the crappy pics -- I took 'em on my cell phone.


There was (I shit you not) an actual marching band with many hundreds in tow processing down Broadway. We followed across the street, as the mob made its way to Pioneer Courthouse Square, and after gathering and dancing for a while started spontaneously singing the National Anthem!. It was pretty amazing. More here.

It is a good day to be a progressive liberal. It is a good day to be an American. It is a bad day to be a bigoted conservative racist redneck. Fuck 'em.