you can't fool yourself any of the time...

[lagilman]

I managed to get everything on my to-do list, done.

But I had, intentionally, pulled back from my usual "be efficient" mode to "be reasonable" mode when making the list.

So I don't feel like I accomplished anything near 100% today.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Shaddup.


EtA: dinner with my folks tonight, talking about (what else) the election, and my dad said something that made me think.

"Obama reminds me of Kennedy. Bobby, I mean."

And, yanno? Yeah.

Yeah.

With a Kevlar vest under his damn dress shirt, 'k?

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"Obama reminds me of Kennedy. Bobby, I mean."

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I hope that's for real.
The first time I voted was for Bobby in 1964. I had just moved to NYC and that election was so exciting for me. Then in '68 my husband and I were actively campaigning for Bobby; Tom was on the NYC media committee. THAT shot finished me. I was apolitical for 40 years. I hope and pray that nothing like that happens to your generation.

[lagilman]

my family's social liberals from MA - they know their Kennedy's.

and yeah - we try not to think of it but.... everyone's aware of the risks, hence my Kevlar comment.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Mine too. I grew up near Plymouth.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

One of the first things I noted to my wife was the presence of the bullet-proof screens around the podium at his speech.

[peggin.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking the same thing, about Obama kind of reminding me of Bobby Kennedy. I never saw it until Tuesday night, but since then I've been thinking about it a lot.

My mother was a HUGE fan of Bobby Kennedy. Her whole life, she talked about how much she had loved him and how she had thought he was going to save the world and how devastated she was when he was killed. Thirty years after his death, she would still talk about how she thought the world would be a better place today if he'd lived and been elected President.

Listening to Obama's speech Tuesday night, talking about all the changes America has gone through in the last hundred years, punctuating each one with "Yes we can", I could almost hear Bobby Kennedy right there next to him saying, "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask 'Why?'... I dream of things that never were, and ask 'Why not?'"

God, I wish she could have been here for this election.