McCain, I respect you, and always have. I just don't agree with you. You ran a tough campaign against an admirable opponent. You have a career to be proud of and will be remembered as a good politician.
Sarah Palin, I never respected you, and never will. Go back to Alaska and take your $150,000 wardrobe with you.
But the people that took the big hit in esteem from me were the people I watched the election with. No pro-Obama excitement allowed. Plenty of anti-Obama rhetoric to go around. The few of us who cared begging to turn the much-anticipated projector on and the volume UP so we could actually hear what was going on. The mood was so pissy once it was obvious Obama was the winner. It was oppressive.
Oh, and Obama's victory speech? I didn't hear it. I had to wait until the men finished a round of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nintendo games. And then they didn't turn up the volume. All to a chorus of making fun of me for being interested.
"It's only history." They sullenly said.
And so the few of us with any sense and the freedom to go home left to at least catch the clips that would be playing throughout the night. Bullshit. I got robbed of my election excitement.
I would have listened to McCain's acceptance speech had he been American's choice. I like history. I like seeing history made. I'm also not a sore-loser. Even the hard-core republican's I watched the 2004 election with watched it 'till the end.
Lesson learned: In 2012 I'll be throwing the party.
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When I heard about this I was pretty annoyed. I did not attend this election night COVERAGE event, because I knew I wanted to spend that time watching it and personally enjoying it. I did think it was cool that we had a bunch of people covering the election so the paper would have something on it in the morning.
I was expecting to find something maybe on the election party at the Hot Shot Cafe. And a bunch of stories covering what happened.
In the paper the next day what did I see? The front page was the only thing that had coverage of the night before.
But I figured whatever, I was not there so I guess I cannot bitch. Then I heard that they made fun of you and would not let you watch the victory speech. It does not matter where you stood on the election if you were doing election night coverage I think it would be important to watch that.
I dunno it irritates me to think people just do not care, I am not even talking about the election at this point. I am talking about journalism here. But I am new to this whole thing so maybe I am missing something.
Sorry that you missed it as it was happening. And sorry for ranting on your blog. But yay Obama won so we do not have to worry about that.
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