Slog - Comments on A Conversation With My Mum

Comment by uncle baggy

uncle baggy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:36:05 -0800

That's the #1 question you'll get if you travel in Europe right now (just did): "how long do you think he'll make it to Inauguration"?

Sad, but not surprising.

Comment by uncle baggy

uncle baggy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:37:09 -0800

minus "how long"

Comment by tania

tania — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:39:26 -0800

My mom was born in Austria in 1937, watched her little sister die in an Allied bombing of Innsbruck during WW2, and since getting her US citizenship in '87, has been confused by American politics to the point of always just voting party-line Republican. Yesterday, she voted for Obama in Ohio and called me to tell me, full of pride. Moms are awesome.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:41:03 -0800

people, people: he's going to make it to the end of his 2nd term. maybe you didn't know, but he's actually NOT a socialist or a muslim.

friggin' unclench.

Comment by sepiolida

sepiolida — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:42:45 -0800

That article made me sad because it said he wouldn't be out with the people anymore. It's good since it protects him, and we need him so very much.

I shook his hand at a rally 2 years ago, and although I'm sure he doesn't remember me, I have felt like I know him personally since that moment. Americans need those moments with him to stay energized. But I'd rather he stays safe.

Comment by SeattleBrad

SeattleBrad — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:16:20 -0800

Google says:
No definitions were found for bickee.

Comment by cat

cat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:42:02 -0800

Bickee = biscuit = cookie.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:49:38 -0800

I did not notice the bullet proof glass so I worried for nothing that someone might take a shot at him.

BTW, I don't remember any serious attempts at an assassination of the President since Ronald Reagan.

I think security is a lot better than it used to be.

Comment by Mrs. Jarvie

Mrs. Jarvie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:03:25 -0800

Obama will be ok. For perspective, Martin Luther King Jr. lived and worked under far more dangerous conditions and with far less security. King survived thirteen years (1955 to 1968) of explosively confrontational activism before his death.

Comment by The Gay Curmudgeon

The Gay Curmudgeon — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:27:55 -0800

Hey Dominic, since Australia changed the Citizenship Act a few years ago its now possible to be a dual Australian/U.S. Citizen. I believe that people who surrendered their citizenship prior to the change can petition to get it back.

I'm a ex-Sydney boy who took U.S. Citizenship (dual citizen) to make sure that my man and I won't be separated by the cruelty of U.S. immigration policy and so I could vote for Barack Obama in this election.

And after all the anti-gay propositions, amendments and measures that passed I drank a lot of hot tea with bickies today myself.

Comment by CP

CP — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:25:42 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts#Bill_Clinton