with no real news to distract me...

[gfish]

I've been rereading my 2004 election post-mortem. I'm reasonably pleased with how well it still stands. I'm very glad to have been wrong about the Democrats lurching to the right. For the most part, though, I don't think (with the beautiful exception that is the Obama campaign) that we've actually become that much smarter about the media. We've been facing a largely incompetent, corrupt, demoralized, completely out of touch opposition. With luck¹ that will continue through 2010, but I don't want this to be a repeat of the Carter administration.

1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.

Comments

[socialistboy.livejournal.com]

as i noted in a comment to your 2004 post, i can't believe it happened. i knew then he could do it, but honestly until tonight i still thought somehow it wasn't real. in fact i still don't really believe its real. i'm expecting court battles and a reversal, even though it is clear. i called it in 04, when i voted obama into the senate, this is my guy. i hope he can live up to the hype.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I think he will. And you're pretty lucky to have been able to vote for him twice now! The scene downtown Seattle was insane tonight. It was like a happy WTO.