It was almost two years ago when I jumped on the Obama bandwagon.
A lot has happened in two years.
Tonight, I was talking with my father as the tallies were coming in. The numbers looked very good, but it wasn’t sealed yet. One thing I noted was that there was a silver lining to the tanking economy: Any chance McCain might have had was obliterated by Wall Street’s performance as of late.
Not that McCain is the Devil. To this day, I still believe he’s a man who himself believes that he has the country’s best interests at heart.
But Wall Street’s crumbling laid the stones for Obama’s final steps over the threshold of the White House.
Now, it gets tough.
How does a man who has become a movement live up to it all? It’s going to be daunting, at best. And still, after watching his acceptance speech, I can’t help but feel the elation. I actually believe.
I actually fucking believe.
And for now, tonight, this moment…
It’s enough.
6 responses so far ↓
1 endora // Nov 5, 2008 at 2:21 pm
My thoughts exactly!
2 Deb // Nov 6, 2008 at 10:44 am
Well said. I watched the election results with a bunch of friends and we all had to wonder if this is to our generation as Kennedy was to our parent’s generation?
3 dave // Nov 7, 2008 at 12:01 am
Yes… but Bobby, not Jack… The sense of hope coming from a time of despair more mirrors Bobby’s rise than Jack’s… hopefully it won’t play out the same way…
4 Mom // Nov 11, 2008 at 10:32 pm
You’re correct, Dave, Bobby, and please G-d, it shouldn’t play out the same way! I was also backing Obama as you know (I was a delegate for him at two local conventions), but time will tell. McCain’s heart was/is in the right place, but the crashing economy did bring him down. We can only hope that with Obama’s election the tide will turn (obviously for the better-for the entire country).
5 nn // Nov 13, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Not to be the proverbial turd in the punchbowl, but until Congress (Democrat-led or otherwise) stops spending without a semblance of fiscal restraint, we’re screwed, regardless of who’s in the White House. I can’t wait to see the reaction from Obama supporters when they realize he, in fact, won’t be going around handing out $100 bills. In any event, if it’s change you wanted, you got it. Caveat emptor.
6 admin // Nov 13, 2008 at 3:40 pm
No argument on that one, either. Although, I have heard rumblings of another stimulus check, which would, in fact, be just like if Obama was handing out $100 bills…
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