HP-- agree totally, and I will go further. This election was about 8 years of new voters since 2000 who have cable and are intnet savvy and can fact check, and only know the Republican Party as what Bush and Rove have turned them into, which is godawful (I could go into detail, but I don\'t want this board to spin out of control).
There will be 4 years of new, smart voters every national election going forward, and if the Republicans don\'t stop pandering to the lowest common denominator with 3 word slogans (War on Terror, Stay the Course, etc.) and start treating the voters with intellectual respect, they will become a local party, and won\'t win the Presidency for the forseeable future, no matter what the Democrats do. They need to fundamentally change, and not force candidates to take positions to get the nomination that give them no chance in the general election.
Anyway--
They were going crazy in the West Village last night, starting about 8:30, all kinds of young kids whooping it up in the streets until 2:00 a.m. After Obama spoke I went over to this bar in my heighborhood, there are a couple of black guys who work the door I\'m friendly with, and a 70 year old black bartender from New Orleans, I wanted to see what he had to say. This place is basically the bar from Star Wars, Bosnian AND Croat owned, Isrealis, everything from everywhere,probably the hottest bar in NY right now. The West Village usually sucks for bars, big break that this ocurred 3 blocks from home for me.
So I\'m standing there and this Irish (from Ireland) woman orders a drink next to me, she\'s maybe 5\'4, 170. She says she\'s so happy she can\'t contain herself (it was like New Year\'s Eve in there). I say, so don\'t.
So she starts jumping up and down, lands with her heel on my big toe.
I let out a howl. She calls me a big pussy, and buys me a drink to make up for it.
I say listen, don\'t jump anymore. She says I can\'t, it\'s too expensive.
