Within about one hour I was interviewed by two radio stations about my opinion on the elections. The interview with SWR1 will be broadcast later this afternoon on Aktuell. Unfortunately, I will be busy and unable to record it. Two other Americans here in Tübingen, including my friend Penny from the Tübingen Progressive Americans will also be interviewed.

The other interview was with Neue 107,7, a rock station. That one was a telephone interview. A tiny fraction of what I said was plugged into part of their news broadcast at 13:00. Listen to an mp3 file of it here.

My whole message was essentially that while I am generally quite pleased with the result, I have some reservations. It is still nearly impossible to win elected office in the U.S. as an unabashed "liberal," overwhelming support for gay marriage bans and the close-call in Missouri on stem cell research are troubling, and I am not yet confident that the Democrats will show the courage and vigor needed to hold the administration responsible for its failings and crimes.

This afternoon and evening I will be attending anniversary events in remembrance of Reichskristallnacht in Tübingen, the day in 1938 when synagogues were torched and Jews harassed and murdered all over Germany. I will blog them at my Sites of Memory blog soon.

I reported on two of these events last year.

I just blogged about a fascinating evening with an American veteran of the Iraq War over at the ProgBlog. Go there and read about the movie Gunner Palace and the perspective of an American NCO who spent seven months in the "Sandbox."