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dampscribbler ([personal profile] dampscribbler) wrote2009-01-26 12:49 pm

First

This is the first time in my life I have a President I actually *like.*  It feels...funny.  To want to know what he said and did today.  To be applauding his moves.  To actually care about his family. 

I wonder how long it will last?

[identity profile] kellyrfineman.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked Clinton, too, so it's the second time in my life I've liked my President. That said, I keep turning on MSNBC to find out what wonderful thing he's done today. Today, he reversed Bush's ecological policies. Squee!!

[identity profile] dampscribbler.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, isn't it amazing to see headlines that make you smile and even squee? I just might start watching the news again!

[identity profile] jelazakazone.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, it won't be enough:( I just heard on the radio that some climate change scientist said that the changes are permanent and it will take something like a thousand years before they could be reversed if we don't worse first:(

[identity profile] dampscribbler.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been hearing for years that even if we fully stopped greenhouse emissions "right now" (whenever that happened to be), which is of course damn near impossible, that we'd be a minimum of 50 years of things getting worse before they started to improve again. But that seems like all the more reason to get started ASAP.

[identity profile] kellyrfineman.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
True, but had the policies been left in place, they'd be worse and worse still. Some improvement has to be better than none.