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Blog entry :
Blog By Truthseeker013
title : What I took away from Election Night...
dated : 5:14am Nov 05, 2008
Yes, I'm likely to gloat here. If you're not of my political persuasion, this is where you use your mouse to navigate away...
Surprisingly, the first thing that struck me, upon seeing CNN declare Obama the winner, was that A BLACK MAN HAD BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT. I've never looked upon the world in terms of race, save the HUMAN one. The fact that a man of MY COLORING was going to be the leader of my nation within my lifetime was humbling...
The second thing I take from this came soon after I saw those first words. Out of curiosity, I was waiting for further reports about Senate races, to see if the Democrats would reach filibuster-proof status. That's when I saw that Joe Biden, whom I didn't know was up for re-election, had won his Senate seat. May not seem like much to many, ut the thought that his constituents, knowing that he might not be able to fill the seat, STILL put him back in office.
Then, on the heels of that, I saw the election map that indicated what states had gone red or blue.
Virginia was BLUE. For the first time since I was THREE MONTHS OLD. (Thanks for building the mind-control ray to my specs, mojo. ;-)) )
And the last thing I ahve for you all was from, of all places, Faux/Fixed/Fox News. mojo, please forgive me for saying his name...
Charles Krauthammer. (pausing to spit) Anyone who's ehard of him knows that he's politiaclly somewhere between George Will and Rush Limbaugh, and that he walks around with this LOOK in his eye that says that he's superior, solely because he's a conservative.
Last night, as he lent his voice to the final analysis of what went wrong for the GOP, THAT LOOK WAS GONE. I admit to smiling far too much...
I end this by saying that this win is just the beginning. There's still lots of work to do, on both sides of the aisle. To those who may read this and disagree with the choice, I say this. He amy seem to be agaisnt your best interests ab initio, but i believe that, if you give Barack Obama a chance, you'll learn otherwise.
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