From last year I’ve been talking to Obama supporters now and then. I wish I could have been in the US right NOW documenting some of these people but money must be funny… in a rich man’s world like ABBA would say. So I’m very stuck here in Stockholm. I’ll stay up all night and hope the “third world voting system” over there won’t fuck up too much… I talked to my friend Zoriah earlier. He just thinks the election is scary. Nothing will surprise him, ‘they’ voted Bush twice after all. Zoriah’s not been too popular over there since he showed the world the real scenes from war… *click here*

Tim Robbins says his name was missing from the voting register when he arrived to vote in New York… “I’m just waiting for an explanation. I want a real explanation, and I want that explanation for the hundreds and thousands of people in my district and throughout the city who are experiencing the same thing today.” Robbins told CNN. Nuts!

Not surprised that Mcburgercain wins Kentucky. I’m not going to be able to sleeep tonight. Come over!
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I love this man more than I can say so I’ll just post this:

Pennsylvania, over 60% Obama! Wow!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com *click*

05.09 AM - I’m crying. And I’m NOT sad.
I actually didn’t think you would vote right, yes sure all my American friends, who I keep very close to my heart, I knew you would… but what about the rest who voted Bush twice? I hoped for Obama since day one but I just couldn’t be sure. But now I am. Crying. United States got a black president! It’s not a TV show. It’s not a movie. It’s reality. In Sweden Obama wouldn’t be ‘radical’ but for the US, he is. He’s not perfect… but…

McCain is having his “Congratulations Obama I lost - speech” right now - a pretty great one actually. His crowd seem to be a bit scary though… I prefer seeing the Obama-crowd. I won’t go to bed until I’ve seen the new president meet the people in Chicago.
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World Press Photo of the Year: 1957 Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press.

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. Reporters and photographers bore witness and recorded the violence that erupted when Dorothy showed up for her first day. People threw rocks and screamed “Go back where you came from”. They got their way - after a string of abuses, Dorothy’s family withdrew her from the school after only four days.

Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African American students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School, a school that previously had only accepted white children. The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, was determined to ensure that segregation did not take place and sent the National Guard to stop the children from entering the school.

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From my friend C in NJ: - “I thought of you last night. After talking politics for all these years with you and knowing what kind of person you are, and what this would mean to you, I very much wanted to talk to you. I was up all night too. I was with a bunch of friends in a bar here in NY. People were crying. People were hugging.”

“Danny and I worked together for 40 years-
he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player
and a pure natural musician.
I loved him very much…we grew up together.”
—Bruce Springsteen

Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band’s organist
and keyboard player, died April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma.
The Federici family and the E Street family request that, in lieu of flowers,
donations be made to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.
A web site for the Fund is being established right now.

If you’re rough and ready for love… honey I’m tougher than the rest. I am. By the way, Everything But The Girl’s version of this song is really pretty. Check it out.