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• Wednesday, November 5, 2008 08:12 AM

  Better you than me, Andrew

  Thanks for doing the dirty work of tuning in and reporting on the Fox coverage. After 8 years of Shrub (and already a bellyful of our own 'Shrub Lite', Stephen Harper), I'm maxed out on the blinkered, unprincipled, mealy-mouthed, callous, dissembling arseholes ruling our continent. I just don't have the stomach to listen to them or the talking heads who prop them up.

  Even as a Canadian who was not able to cast a vote, I am beyond relieved that McCain/Palin didn't win, not so much out of fear of McCain as for Palin. This was like potential Shrub deja vu all over again, someone coasting to the top on nothing more than a bit of folksy baloney and self-deluding, overweaning ambition. I kept shaking my head and thinking, please, stop the madness. And did anyone notice, last night, during McCain's concession speech, how she grudgingly stepped back to let the man speak? She didn't deserve to be on the same stage as McCain. Give her the hook! I kept thinking. (And Tod looked like he'd had enough of the dog-and-pony show and couldn't wait to head back home and jump on the snowmobile.)

  I am relieved that Obama won, and stayed up late to watch his speech. Finally, after years of appalling buffoonery, someone I don't have to mute! Someone who seems actually to have thought about things, who has worked for what he has, who had a track record of doing good things before the thought of running for President had crossed his mind. What a concept.

  So here's his chance and he's earned it. I wish him all the luck in the world. (And I'm also really looking forward to the intelligence, poise and self-confidence of the future First Lady.)

  Well done.

  —greatwhitenorthchick Read greatwhitenorthchick's other letters
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