Archive for November 5th, 2008

What the world says about Obama

November 5, 2008

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — Here is a sampling of the world’s reaction to Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. “Forty-five years ago, Martin Luther King dreamed of an America where men and women will be judged not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character,” Australian Prime Minister [...]

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California same-sex marriage ban faces three lawsuits

November 5, 2008

Defenders of same-sex marriage filed three lawsuits Wednesday challenging California voters’ passage of a constitutional amendment banning it. Proposition 8, defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, was approved by 52% of 10.2 million votes counted. Three million absentee ballots are uncounted or unreturned. The “No on 8″ campaign did not [...]

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What a strange land…

November 5, 2008

Where we can vote in the First African American President and at the same time ban gay marriage in all three states that were voting on it.. maybe this isn’t as much a step forward as I thought it was going to be..

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Props to John McCain

November 5, 2008

Tonight when the numbers turned past that line of 270 I felt extreme joy.  I feel we really do have hope now in America to change our lives for the better.  I feel Barack Obama Represents me more than all over candidates. However, when John McCain Conceited to the election tonight, he gave one of [...]

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