Happy Birthday to Us
In all the excitement of the runup to the election (next week! gulp) I plum forgot that October 20th was the 1st anniversary of the launch of Expats Against Bush.
Before we get into the final week melée that is this election, I want to thank all of you who have visited the site, commented, helped out at meetings and come out to demonstrate over the past year. You guys rock.
And let us hope our efforts have not been in vain. I think by this time next week (Election Eve) we may all have ulcers (on both sides of the fence).
By the way, I will be going to the US Embassy election night party on, well, election night. From what I've heard it's a bit of a knees-up with lots of US and UK politicos hobknobbing, but I've also heard from an FT reporter that in most cases everyone gets too wobbly too early and almost nobody actually makes it through to hear the results. I have some serious doubts that they will have even called the election by the end of the week, let alone Tuesday night. Nevertheless, it should be an interesting event, and I can't get over the image in my head of a high school dance with two factions hugging each wall and only the occasional brave soul venturing into the middle to converse awkwardly with the others. I will of course fill you in.
Hot Damn, has it really been a whole year? Seems
like it's been alot longer than that. At any rate Luke, I'd like to extend a hardy Happy B'day
to your site and the open discussions you have
genereated this past year; pro or con.
Well Done and keep it up.
Posted by: Chrish | October 25, 2004 at 05:01 PM
I'll second that emotion.
Posted by: Jim | October 25, 2004 at 08:06 PM