The day is here.
I've had my breath held for weeks, amassing lists of all the things that can and will go wrong in the voting processes. There are happening out there, all over the USA - but they are not enough, it seems, to impede this great current.
Obama was not my first choice - but, along with Hillary, I have swung around to support him and to watch him growing in statesmanlike proportions.
He is an elegant and erudite man and my hopes for him are high.
How wonderous it is that he should surmount the frightening power of the great Republican lower class fundamentalist hate machine.
As noted by US analysts, the "Walmart" vote is now Republican since it no longer relates to wealth or class but to the adherence to conservatism and religion-based home education which ensures that dangerous, enlightened ideas never cross the minds of the little home-grown right wingers.
The educated classes are the Democrats these days. And the coffee drinkers. Starbucks came out for Obama and give free coffess to voters and volunteers. How 'bout dat! Only in America.
For the African Americans, an Obama win could lay the foundations for a mass attitudinal change, to give a sense of positivity and hope to that huge American underclass. What a powerful and beautiful country the US could be if its black population took to the books and reached for the stars.
2 comments:
The wait is over. NH did the right thing.
I have now voted for the winning presidential candidate for the first time in my life. 1 out of 10!
A very proud night to be an American. also, NH now has it's first female senator, Jean Shaheen!
Hope all is well ,
Steve
free at last free at last , obama won we are free at last now i just wait for the burning bush in the desert last night i cried for realisation that a unifying force was standing in chicago and he is our president , today i downloaded my us citizenship papers i would never be a US citizen under bush/mccain but now i see a future as a citizen of these united states. thanks mia G
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