8/28/08

Really Proud

by billmon

"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop."
-Martin Luther King April 3, 1968
Readers of my old blog, the Whiskey Bar, probably know I have had a long and conflicted relationship with the Democratic Party -- one that generally ranges between reluctantly supportive (on the really good days) to utterly disgusted (most days).

To compare it to a bad marriage would be an insult to unhappy couples everywhere.

Read on...

Peacenik thinks Billmon, formerly of the Whiskey Bar blog, was the best blogger in the blogosphere until he retired a couple of years ago. It's nice to see him coming out of retirement as he begins to post at Dailykos.com. This post "Really Proud" reminds us that no matter how disillusioned we can get by U.S. politics and society we should celebrate when something good happens. Maybe a positive vibe can coalesce into something more significant. Sometimes there are glimmers of hope.