I kind of want to make out with the President-elect right now

[effervescible]

And not just because he's a cutie.

"Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush's controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson's.

...

The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it."

Fuck yeah.

Comments

[sache.livejournal.com]

The first one alone is enough to make me happy. There is something inherently wrong about one of the most advanced nations in the world being as anti-science as it was during the Bush Administration.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

No kidding. And yanno, if these people are SO against the destruction of embryos, why the FUCK aren't they marching and protesting outside of in vitro clinics?!

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

My uterus of justice is pleased.

[tigerlilyaj.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm so vacuous that I am only responding to the "make out" portion of your message, because I have been suffering all week with guilt over my desire for my new Boyfriend-elect. Not guilt because *I* am married, but because he is, and I really kinda like her. ;-D

[jaina.livejournal.com]

BOYFRIEND-ELECT. That's perfect! And I feel the same way. I would totally make out with him, except he and Michelle are so incredibly adorable and in love.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I came.

<3

[http://users.livejournal.com/_debbiechan_/]

I saw that first thing this morning and yelled.

This country really IS gonna have one sweet honeymoon with Obama come January.

He's our Boyfriend Elect, I love that.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

It's so exciting, seriously. 200 things, just to start! (Okay, that part's a little depressing too.)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I'm just all asquee that he is ready to Get Shit Done.

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

Seeeeeeeeeriously. He's already having press conferences and sending people to summits on climate change and -- not wasting a second here and I freaking love it to death.

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3

[The one disappointment for me in all this is that I'm going to have to hear about it from my mother, who says the one thing that bothers her about the Obama presidency is that he's pro-choice.]

[chaobell]

yes yes yes ♥♥♥

(slightly related to your first point - hottest administration EVAR Y/OMFGY)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

OMG so much Y. Those two are so hot and clearly so hot for each other.

[wherever.livejournal.com]

That is SO AWESOME! :)