I was not alive in 1960, but I imagine my today was quite similar to what people who voted for JFK felt forty-eight years ago on Election Day. I felt strengthened as I drove to my polling station, and proud as I saw a small crowd waiting to participate in democracy.
And so I stood behind the curtain in the voting booth and stared at the screen with my green x mark beside Barack Obama's name. I wanted to meditate over the moment however briefly and bask in the glory of what it meant to me. We have come far as a country, yet have much still to do. An eight year horror is coming to an end, but it left ruin wherever it stepped. Hope, ideas and solutions mean more than lies and cynicism now. The Constitution can be restored to its hallowed place.
And I walked to my car and went to work, but continued to return to what this day was representative of. I shared in the promise of the future with Barack Obama, President - Elect Barack Obama, and I am alive with hope, yes, hope, in what America used to be and now just might become again. A long nightmare is in its death throes, a true leader has come to take us forward and, as many felt when they joined with John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960 to walk upon the New Frontier, so do I today say "Yes We Can," and I bask in the election of Barack Hussein (yes, let the fearmongers quiver with the use of a middle name) Obama.
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Yes. An 8-year horror is coming to an end. As the CNN dude said, the election results are a repudiation of the current administration. I think in plain English he means the American people are flipping the bird to Dubya.
All I can say is Amen. And good-bye you greedy, evil, selfish man.
I felt like I was on the ballot and was so stressed most of the day. I think this was the first time I actually voted for something instead of just against someone. I may end up crying
Yes, and lets remember what happened to Kennedy. Lets pray that the SS do a much better job. It always surprized me that no one took seriously taking out Dubya.
Jack
thanks for sending me the link to this... after our conversation of many moons ago,, i thought of you as i watched the election results coming in and of course as i sat in awe of the man destined to become our next president...
i too wrote my feelings on this historic event as they unfurled to me last night and this morning...... shleeple
Ironic that amongst many of us he inspires hope and optimism. Unfortunately, I keep running into those Kool-Aid drinking right wing types whose reaction is an irrational fear. I guess it won't be that easy to wash out the negative effects of the last eight years.
Yeah, the wingnuts are hopeless (pun intended) because they are motivated by small spheres of interest - religious extremism or financial greed. Don't waste time on them anymore as they are irrelevant.
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