Watching The West Wing, and the dam broke, I can't stop crying.

[dixiegrrrrl]

I know it's "just a tv show"
I know it's ":not real"
I know I have seen the series a few times.

but watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EgLiPvhV-Y&feature=related

and suddenly the contrast between the last 20 years and what could have been possible
went straight to my soul.
The contrast between the Gollum people in office now and the "best and brightest" potential of our country , our Government is so painfully glaring.
All of my intellectualizing of the bizarre, traitorous, murderous, vile Bush cabal just came undone and I am feeling the pain of that betrayal so much right now.

It's ok...I know I needed to wash all the crap out somewhere along the line.


But damn !!!!!!!! What could have been.

[Kajsa]

1. I know, Dixiegrrrl,

I get that feeling many times when I see Al Gore,
the man who won the popular vote in 2000!

imho, he WAS the legitimate POTUS.
The Supremes said otherwise.
To this day I can't stand Scalia!!

It IS overwhelming because we see what eight years of Bushco
has done to our country and to us!
It brings on tears,rage and sadness.

:hug:

[patrice]

2. The pain is proportional to how much our better angels REALLY COULD have lead us.

I'm soooo tired of the Sickness that I've felt ever since day one of the coup . . .

:grouphug: dixiegrrrrl :grouphug:

[K Gardner]

3. That is my absolute favorite scene from one of my favorite episodes ever.. I'd watched it a

thousand times before today and just watched it again.

We are poised to take this country back - what "could have been", will be.

I know it.

[disndat]

9. Damned straight

Obama now has the mandate to do whatever is needed. What was politically impossible to do under any other circumstances than to follow the absolute disaster done to this country and to the rest of the world by
8 long, dreary years of the Bush regime.

[defendandprotect]

4. Rather than living lives enriched by nature and knowledge ....

compassion and health, the human experience is corrupted by the violent

among us. Patriarchy and organized patriarchal religion are bred in

violence. Capitalism is part of that system.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. SIGH......I know I am not the only one who feels this way.

Sniffle....feeling lighter.
A good over due cr, re-energizes.
But damn, we do have a lot to mourn, don't we?
and not even a quarter of what the poor Irqis have to mour,
Or Palastines..or....
shit, I could cry for a day and not even scratch the surface of the victims..
Katrina
Galveston
New York
Now Michigan..hell, THEN Michigan.

Oh lordy, pass the Kleenex again.....

[defendandprotect]

6. Will the violent always win over the non-violent . . . ????

That's a question we haven't tackled recently --

perhaps the concept of the UN was the last attempt -- other than the NGO's -- ?

Has the UN been totally co-opted now, as well?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Damn you, dixie - damn you!

Can anyone watch that without breaking down?

Even though, as a long-time DC denizen, I laugh whenever I see the route the motorcade takes - no, there is no way it would go past the National Cathedral - that whole episode, with Mrs. Landingham and the cigarette butt on the floor, and, damn, here come the tears again, it just tears me up.

That kind of courage. Please, let Obama have that kind of courage.

The music, Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms," is beyond perfect.

Now I'm all wet and sniffling.

Thanks a lot, dixie.............

:toast:

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. " I knowwwwww"

Now I feel like Meg Rryan going thru tissues.

:hug:

[gblady]

8. thanks for sharing this clip....

I have never seen the West Wing....

but your clip and comments inspired me....

I put the first two seasons on hold at my library....
can't wait to watch them.

[lildreamer316]

15. You will never

look at television the same way again.

This series encompasses all that the medium can be,when given the right attention from the networks. Not that it will ever happen again in my lifetime..I can only hope.

It makes what passes for writing on tv these days sickening in comparison.

I watch these to help me remember that there is great intelligence out there..even in the audience that elevated this series to record numbers of Emmy nominations. Who says Americans are stupid? One may think twice about it after watching this and realizing it was so very successful.

The writing and acting is beyond superb. Really.
In my book, Aaron Sorkin is close to godliness.

[dysfunctional press]

11. what's done is done...no sense in dwelling on "what could have been"...

look to the future...

although that's not looking too rosy either, at this point.

[DainBramaged]

12. My Christmas prayer was for God's help in our fixing this mess.

or at the very least, a great new administration.

[bain_sidhe]

13. Tears are necessary... but not sufficient

I always go back to one of my favorite quotes from Babylon 5 (besides the one in my sig, that is):

We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.
--G'Kar "Objects in Motion"

Tears help us value the thing we mourn, so that when we dry them, we have fertile ground to grow replacements for those things. There have been days when I thought the tears brought by this mal-administration were too many, that I had no strength left to replace what we've lost. But now... I have hope that maybe, just maybe, I have one more growing season left in me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. That is a wnderful sentiment.

I know there is "the other side" to the crying.
Getting there.
A lot of stuff came up...long years of stuff.

You gave me a lovely thought to hold onto.