Slog - Comments on We've Never Been So Happy to Be on the Bus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu It was business as usual on the number 18 bus to Ballard around 7:45 or so. Until, of course, the driver announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." Everyone on the bus cheered. "The black man won!" declared the woman from behind the wheel. Everyone on the bus cheered even louder. An older woman started mumbling that it was about time, she was looking forward to good health care. A loud man at the front wouldn't stop yelling about how great that is. People called their friends, strangers nodded and smiled... it was the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:50:20 -0800 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:42:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Y.F. Sorry to break the bad news, but Prop 8 is probably going to pass along with Prop 102 in AZ and Prop 2 in Florida.

]]> Y.F. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194662 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194662 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:51:29 -0800 Comment by RootWomin In Rainier Valley-
People are singing
Shouting
Crying
Dancing

It's a good time to be alive, to dance in the streets!

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> RootWomin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194663 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:52:29 -0800 Comment by ellarosa now the work begins.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194665 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194665 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:52:56 -0800 Comment by daniel I believe it's been documented that Barack would rather be considered African-American. It still doesn't change the fact that he's mulatto. It seems idiotic to keep saying black black black. Pardon the racist (in the old sense) phrase, but call a spade a spade.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194671 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:57:46 -0800 Comment by UHH Did anyone break it to that poor old lady that Obama actually stopped even pretending to have a decent plan for health care quite awhile ago? Let's hear it for more gouging of the public for the sake of the fattening pockets of the private insurance industry.

]]> UHH http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/weve_never_been_so_happy_to_be_on_the_bu#c1194727 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:42:20 -0800