Civil discourse is one of the things I miss, and so does Obama as I gleened from his second book. I think he will work to bring it back to Washington as well as he can. I can see one of his first reaching across the aisle moves as hiring Colin Powell as Sec. of defense or perhaps Sec. of State once again.Who knows?

Some personal reflections on this election if (WHEN) Obama is elected:

It will be the first time that I will be older than the president.

My identical twin grandkids that are due here in feb. or march will be born with an african american in the whitehouse. they will be part african american themselves and by the time they are old enough to vote, they may wonder what the big deal was. (at least I hope so)

Just thought we needed more color in this World.

Leo, what you say is colorful enough--adding font color is just gilding the lily.

Not a problem, as I went back and edited the last 5. But I'm not going back to change all of them.

Woulda been nice if he did this for the LAST two elections!:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_ ... h_election

Ceashel , is it possible that they took the signs recognizing the value of them ??

If this were New England, maybe so. This is Dallas. That would be a no.

OK folks, we expats have gotten our votes sent in on time. Over to all ya'll to bring this election home.
I'll be at the US Consulate tomorrow morning early, watching the final returns as they are announced.

Larry wrote:
"It will be the first time that I will be older than the president."

I've been contemplating that fact as well Larry. Kinda' weird, isn't it? I guess we might as well get use to it!!!

If he's prez I'll be the same age as him. Usually presidents are older than me. I hope it stays that way lol...

Yeah Cheryl, When Obama wins, you will just have to suffer through things like a better economy over time for people like you and me, better health care over time for people like you and me, a higher standing with other countries in the world both allies and not, a safer country for everyone where the president uses brains over machismo to make decisions on foreign policy. Yup, I know having to contend with someone that has been labled a "liberal" might be tough for you, but I'm confident that at the end of the first Obama term, things will be better for you and Mike than they are now. Mind you, it will be a slow process, undoing the Bush years, but it will happen. Then, perhaps the next time, you won't be fooled again into voting against your own self interests and those of the country as a whole.

Yes, we might as well!

it will also be refreshing to not think that I am MUCH smarter than the president, as I do now.

The stupid demographic had it's 8 years, now it's our turn!

I hope they run Palin in 2012, I'm gunna miss Tina Fey until then, cuz I don't watch her other shows......

Hey Larry, imo, Thirty Rock is way worth the tivo time. And tivo is the only way to most watch tv, unless you are into subliminal spam.

Only thing is if he gets in I'll have to watch the morals of the country go down even more than they already are. Why can't they have a dem with the same morals as the right wingers? If they would I'd vote for him...

Cheryl you will get use to not seeing 100 to 10,000 years of war. That's not how I see the 1000 years of the Lamb's Freedom being in control. But there is only one other real difference between the 2 parties.