From the dark days, before hope

It's only when I see things like this that you remember the extent to which even I would get caught up in the zeitgeist of hope for Obama and despair over the callousness of the Bushies towards the world.  Nor am I certain that I can be proud for not having voted my conscience. 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-01/the-state-departments-school-for-revolutionary-bloggers/full/