Originally Posted by GrandviewGloria
For eight years (plus the months of the initial campaign - from roughly the moment my industrialist uncle strode out of a party, saying over his shoulder, "And heaven forbid you should call one 'articulate'!"), I managed to change channels, hit 'Mute', turn off televisions and radios, walk out of rooms, put on headphones, and AVOID listening to Obama. Today, hopefully, was the last time my finger had to hit the remote, where he's concerned.
I detested BabyBush, and instantly recognized Obama as being virtually the same person. Too, my mom (whom I hated) was a cigarette-smoking druggie. So, Obama's reported smoking habit, plus his reported druggie days as a youth in Hawaii, were all I needed to know. Cig Fiends and Druggies are not people for whom I have any use. BabyBush also had my unqualified disapproval, from day one, thanks to his (and Laura's) reported history of substance use.
The moment the '08 election results became a sure thing, I began to position myself to gain from the inevitable financial slump. And I moved operations overseas (who didn't?) The 'downturn' I bet on, turned into full-fledged DEPRESSION, which basically put my strategy on steroids. I did well. I saw a string of years when our net worth was doubling annually - even despite (temporary) devaluations of some holdings. For that, I'm grateful. Thanks, 'O'!
Listening to Barbara Bush's Brat used to make me so angry, I'd injure myself, hitting things. I figured I'd give my fists, and my blood pressure, a break. So, for the first four years of the Obama Presidency, I avoided listening to him. Then, for four MORE years, I avoided. It became reflexive.
Today was the first time, ever,that I've watched any of the beginning of any presidency. This is the first time within my memory, that we've had a President of whom I could be proud - whose advent made me happy. Today, crying with JOY, that America, and the WORLD, has been given another chance - a chance none of us even considered possible - that there actually is a future - that our nation will not be destroyed (and, let's face it, destruction's been the intent of "our leaders", over the last 24 years) - that Western Civilization (and the planet) may possibly continue to live, rather than face what we had assumed to be inevitable rapid extinction, I realized that I'd actually managed to avoid hearing anything more than a few of Obama's words.
Am I the only one?
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