An incredible thing to witness
honest to goodness the bars weren’t open this morning they must have been voting for a new president of something
139 years after this country belatedly gave blacks the right to vote, we have elected a black man to be President.
I truly never thought I would see this in my lifetime. Perhaps growing up in the south, in close proximity to a glut of rednecks colored my thinking, or maybe it was my first job, with an incredibly intelligent- and disgustingly racist- owner, but for whatever reason, I never thought this nation would rise above its inclination to demonize a group of people as inferior, but it has. Listening to the spit-flecked vitriol of McCain supporters, all those pinched-faced hags babbling their nonsensical bile on Fox News, was almost too much. Watching the national media invent contention where sensible people- you know, those of us who don’t watch that shit- didn’t see it, in the Jerimiah Wright “scandal”, or the “palling around with terrorists” drivel, watching all that, it was enough to make you give up hope not only of an Obama victory, but frankly, it taxed our belief in our fellow man, our fellow citizens.
honest to goodness the tears have been falling all over the countrys face it was better before before they voted for whats his name this is suppose to be the new world
But we not only elected a black man, we elected one, seven years past 9/11- with a middle name of Hussien. Think about that shit. After enduring an administration sustained solely by its ability to scare rubes with brown-skinned bogeymen- we elected a guy named Hussien. That too is something I never thought I’d see.
But the work is not yet done- not when anti-gay referendums passed all over the country, we are still not all that we can be- but hopefully this rising tide will lift their boat as well. That is our next battle, a battle against ignorance and fear, but this election definitively showed that in time, fear can be beaten, ignorance turned away.
This was supposed to be the new world.
We still have a long way to go- we need to elect a female President- and as soon as we have a choice that isn’t a Clinton or a baked Alaskan idiot, we probably will- but our nation has done a remarkable thing with our choice for the 44th President. Although he wasn’t my choice at the start, he was the only choice at the end. The situation he inherits most likely will tie his hands and cripple his plans out of the gate- as Exene sang, it was better before we voted for what’s his name- but either candidate would have endured that, and McCain clearly had not the judgment, honesty, or convictions to lead. The right man won.
Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving even this cynical bastard reason to respect this country again.
Thank you sir.
