Yay America.<\/p>\n
Now believe me, that’s a phrase I haven’t thought of in a very long time. It’s been a long, painful 8 years. Tonight, however, I’m standing with you, cheering you on, congratulating you on taking a step into a hopeful, friendly future. Someone on the news tonight said that Obama is now the closest thing to a “president of the world” and right now, that feels OK with me.<\/p>\n
Watching his victory speech I felt truly inspired and hopeful; the man has a distinctly refreshing streak of honesty and passion which makes me want to stand up and cheer (and drink champagne – which I did). Here\u2019s hoping that tonight\u2019s optimism can continue, because it sure feels good to feel this way. <\/p>\n
Right now I want to believe the hype. I truly want to hope that things can be better in the way I’ve always dreamed. I suspect that things won’t be so fabulous in the cold light of tomorrow’s dawn, but right now I’ve got champagne in my veins and a thrill of optimism in my heart.<\/p>\n
Right now “Yes we can” makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n
6th November Update: Well, cold light of dawn it is. Numerous US states voted to ban gay marriage<\/a>. An unfortunate slap in an otherwise happy face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yay America. Now believe me, that’s a phrase I haven’t thought of in a very long time. It’s been a long, painful 8 years. Tonight, however, I’m standing with you, cheering you on, congratulating you on taking a step into a hopeful, friendly future. Someone on the news tonight said that Obama is now the closest thing to a “president of the world” and right now, that feels OK with Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[269,575,638,820],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-election","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}