addendum to last post: it's tough being a landlord.

[vulgarweed]

As a member of the American People, I get asked to vet job applications all the time. (They work for us. Not the other way around.) WE hold the lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, and all sorts of people keep trying to rent it. But I'm picky. The rent is so so so much more than money. The rent is decades of premature aging and the trust of the world. It's responsibility beyond your wildest nightmares.





I'd give them my keys and trust them to feed my cat.

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[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's HUGE. SO HUGE.


See, that makes me sad, because I used to love Hillary, and after this campaign and the way she ran it...I so wish I still could, and yet I just don't. I wanted her to be brave and brilliant and visionary like I know she can be...and she wasn't. She had all the money and party backing on her side, it was hers to lose--and she lost it.

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

but maybe she'll redeem herself- I have hope for her!

knowing that she was hanging out with Obama this evening makes me smile hugely.

And yes- (was it this post or the previous one)- you've been talking about Obama as the one for a while - in fact, my dear dear V, it was you who first brought him to my attention!

xooxoxM

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, I do live in Illinois, and I do work for a newspaper here, and the idea that there was something ineffably special about him has been kicking around this town since the mid-90s. And when he was making his Senate run, which we knew he'd win even before Seven of Nine's husband dropped out, and he made that speech at the Democratic Convention in 04==that was the moment when all my small hairs stood up and I knew all of a sudden what that "specialness" was: that he was going to be the first black President. It was just GOING to happen.

I thought it'd be in 2012 or 2016, though.