Just a thought: GOP'ers, especially the extremist kind....

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...those still frothing and foaming at the mouth over the Clinton Presidency. Must now be starting the final stage of being totally 'rabid' - over the Obama's "total and complete ass-whooping" win on Tuesday night. And, I'm not ashamed to say, it makes me smile.

Maybe now, I can finally enjoy living here, in the country of my birth. Sadly, having not lived here under the Clinton Administration and only Ray-gun and B00sh. As an adult, I watched American politics on Australian news and it was very foreign to me (and to a large degree, living in the US is very foreign to me too). Always interested in politics, from quite a young age, however, it took actually living as an adult under bay b00sh (and with my husbands help), to *understand* politics.

Going forward we have a lot of work to do, so I do not equate enjoying my country to my country being an easy 'utopia'.

And, for the first time in my near 40 years on this planet, admittedly, was the first time that *I* was proud of The United States of America. On Tuesday night, when state after state came in for Obama and it became clear who our next POTUS would be, proud to be the Aussie/American that myself and my children are.

Seeing my eldest child, my 19 year old Australian born son vote for his first time (duel citizenship has been possible in the US for well over 10yrs now - when he was born it was not). Seeing the sea of faces, gathering all over the country in celebration of Obama's win, then listening to his acceptance speech - noting the fact that we could all come together and how we showed to the world that *real* democracy does not ever come from the barrel of a gun but by the voice of it's people. I was incredibly proud we showed the world what Americans really feel and that we do not want the politics of b00sh nor condone all he has done, we do not like it anymore than they do! With all that running through my head I cried, right along side my hubby, who was also crying. A lovely, defining moment in American history that we can say, we will never forget.

Cheers
Sandy

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1. bump - things drop fast in GD -n/t