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THE GLOW 

President-elect Barack Obama!  The first African American First Family!

And it happened on my grandmother’s birthday!  As a young woman, she lived in Washington D.C. back when it boasted White and Colored hotels, eateries and restrooms.  I was horrified to learn from her that our Nation’s Capitol had been so backward, only a few short years before.  I so wish she could’ve seen this day.  Words cannot express. 

Now the campaign’s over and … it’s time to get to work.  Bleary-eyed though we may be, progressives cannot rest or take a wait-and-see attitude.  The banker barons have our money, war still rages on 2 fronts plus the occasional extra-curricular raid, and the icecaps continue to melt. 

And, while election fraud appears (so far) to be minimal this time — thanks to early attempts being caught, public discussion of 2000 and 2004 and, especially, the Federal court ordered deposition of Karl Rove’s computer guru, Mike Connell, on alleged Rove-ian vote fixing strategies — our rights as voters will require our continued, extremely active protection.

As the new President begins his Herculean effort to bring this country together, we must make sure that progressive values are not pushed aside in the process.

And here’s another reason why we can’t sleep:

THE BURN

Arizona, Florida and, to my shame, my own state of California, voted for state constitutional bans on gay marriage.  Massachusetts and Connecticut, whose supreme courts have authorized gay marriage, and are now the only states that specifically allow and recognize gay marriage.   Meanwhile, Arkansas has made it illegal for gays to adopt. 

The silver lining, such as it is, is that these bigoted decisions are headed for the courts.

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