Halling Go To Alaska

Well, okay, not MY man. That would be Tim, but I did tell Tim that if for some crazy reason Obama doesn't win in November, we are moving to Canada or France or someplace else. I said yesterday that I have friends with differing viewpoints from my own, and I can still be friends with them as long as we don't discuss those issues. Well, I just couldn't handle the disappointment that was 4 years ago. I would need a fresh start. So, if for some crazy reason...I can't even say it again in the same post...you'll find us up in Canada. Not sure what the job market is up north, but I can downsize. I really can.

I will never call myself an organized thinker. This blog is never going to be "that" blog that people come to for insight. But I have to say a couple of things about seeing and hearing what I have heard from various speeches this week at the DNC. And know that I will be up way too late tomorrow night working because I will be watching Obama speak. Four years ago I felt panicky that Bush would be re-elected. I actually cried tears when Kerry lost. I felt physically sick. I couldn't fathom 4 more years of... I don't even know what to call it. It puts me at a loss for words. Eight years ago I was living in Texas with GWB as governor. Every time I saw him speak, it made me cringe. I couldn't put my finger on it. I couldn't listen to him because it felt physically painful to me - and not in the way where you were hearing things that you knew in your gut were true but weren't ready to accept. I tried to be optimistic when he won the presidency. I wanted it to no...