The
Washington Post's Monica Hesse reports on the euphoria of Obama supporters after his victory last week -- and how it spilled over into romance. (via
Hot Air)
Hesse
writes:
This was more than regular flirting, says [one participant]. Regular flirting is a few games of beer pong on a Saturday night. This -- if you believe Obama supporters -- was flirting mixed with a sense of cosmic change, which emboldened people to take actions they never would have otherwise. Participants in such flirtation sound, a bit disturbingly, like alien abductees trying to describe their experiences on the mother ship...
Perhaps the passage of time has dulled my senses somewhat, but I'm pretty sure I was never quite so lame after a random encounter with some strange...