The good news: Because President Obama won on Tuesday, we will not have 4 years of serial liar and cold-blooded cad Mitt Romney's hand at the tiller of the corporate state. This will be good for people who, say, would rather not lose their health coverage the moment they are diagnosed with a pre-existing cancer; or who aren't fond of the idea of a federal government sympathetic to denying women contraception; or who suspect that 30 years is long enough to disprove the idea that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs and opportunity for working people; or who think that gutting FEMA and cutting government regulation of industry might not be such a good idea in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and the mounting deaths from weak food and drug safety standards; or who would prefer that the White House not consort with the most wildly racist, misogynist, and homophobic constituencies in America.
The bad news: Because President Obama won on Tuesday, we will have 4 more years of crafting secret kill lists that include U.S. citizens; 4 more years of the National Defense Authorization Act and its spectacular violations of our privacy and civil and human rights; 4 more years of ducking anything like serious health care reform; 4 more years of automatic coddling of Wall Street and other corporate autocrats; 4 more years of gorgeously passionate presidential speeches followed by reliably craven inaction or betrayal; and 4 more years of kowtowing to the bullies of the Republican wing of the Corporate Party, which has already begun with Obama's I'm-so-much-nicer-than-you stance toward obstructionist Republicans in his victory speech, and his (heh-heh, it's a joke) offering to wash their cars and walk their dogs if they'll only push him around just a little bit less.
The bad news: Because President Obama won on Tuesday, we will have 4 more years of crafting secret kill lists that include U.S. citizens; 4 more years of the National Defense Authorization Act and its spectacular violations of our privacy and civil and human rights; 4 more years of ducking anything like serious health care reform; 4 more years of automatic coddling of Wall Street and other corporate autocrats; 4 more years of gorgeously passionate presidential speeches followed by reliably craven inaction or betrayal; and 4 more years of kowtowing to the bullies of the Republican wing of the Corporate Party, which has already begun with Obama's I'm-so-much-nicer-than-you stance toward obstructionist Republicans in his victory speech, and his (heh-heh, it's a joke) offering to wash their cars and walk their dogs if they'll only push him around just a little bit less.
