The US Election and 'Clouds'

The expression goes that 'every cloud has a silver lining'. So what 'silver linings' can we find in the election result?

Prop 8 won in CA!!! Yay!!!!

I think a great many people voted for Obama without the slightest idea of what he stood for. The Australian election earlier this year was similar. The main theme of the opposition parties in both cases was 'Change' with very little emphasis put on what should change, just 'anything different from what we've had the last 13 (8 in your case) years. Over the next four years those people who voted for the first time will hopefully come to realise the consequences of their actions, and next time won't have that air of 'a historic opportunity to elect the first African-American president in US history'.

The other extremely positive thing I find in the election result is that you will soon have a Catholic Pro-Choice VP!!!! What??? you say?.

Here's what I mean. The US bishops have been (for them) remarkably vociferous during this election campaign. A large proportion of this is in response to comments by Nancy Pelosi, and now VP elect Biden. Both crossed the line of separation of Church and State, but in the opposite direction than most people are used to thinking of.

After the John Kerry debacle, the pro-choice Catholic 'thing', the 'wafer wars' as they were dubbed by certain sections of the media, died a quick death in the press.

Not this time. This time we have a pro-choice Catholic one heartbeat away from being the most powerful man in the (secular) world. The US bishops have a huge challenge, and yet a huge opportunity to make this issue 'current' for the next four years.

Either Biden publicly renounces his views, publicly gives up his claim to be an 'ardent Catholic' or drags this issue into the mainstream for the next four years.

Could be an interesting ride