It’s a Sunday evening, on the tail end of a pleasant weekend (which would have been much more pleasant had I been sans sinus cold) and the eve of yet-another-election (was there a Groupon for elections recently? Seems like we’ve had a lot in three years) and the three of us are each parked in front of our own screens.
Mike is playing Fallout New Vegas
But all of this has been interrupted (as I was composing this blog post) by President Obama’s pending Breaking News — which CNN was careful not to leak first — once the news was leaked (that Bin Laden had been killed and the body allegedly recovered), CNN was all over it. For those who were wondering (& who apparently cared) why Will and Kate postponed their royal honeymoon, this would be the reason. Apparently Bin Laden was killed last week.
I have one eye on CNN and on my laptop I have the whitehouse.gov live stream open, the Al Jazeera English live stream open (with some very interesting commentary going — certainly more intelligent than anything I’m hearing from CNN) — and of course Facebook and Twitter (which amazingly has not crashed).
All this on the eve of a Canadian Federal Election — the question on my mind, “Will the Harper gov’t claim any involvement?”
At last, an hour later than announced, Obama approaches the podium and states what we already knew from the leaked reports.
But what now? Obama says we “must remain vigilant” in the fight against terror. I’m guessing that relations with Pakistan are going to be especially tense, too. At least he made it clear that it was not a war on Islam.
PHEW. That was a tense hour for a political junkie like me. I’ve now swapped to CBC.ca to hear Harper speak (just before he is hopefully voted out of office…)