I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, and suddenly we realized that the dreaded Soviet empire had collapsed. The Soviets were nothing more than a bunch of people, not all that well organized, and not nearly so powerful as we’d feared.
The same thing happened to the right wing of American politics last night. They’re a paper tiger, an artificial threat that’s been propped up too long by the media. Their reign is over.
“Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
Suddenly African-Americans look a little different—all along they’ve been feeling and thinking the same things as the rest of us, and never mind what anyone thought before. It’s their country too. Our hearts are opening. We’re one weave.
And soon we can get to work fixing things up!
Hallelujah.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I feel like an American again. Weird.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:20 am
HALLELUJAH indeed!!! wotta cool new leader we picked!~
November 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I’d be more convinced that “our hearts are opening” and “we’re one weave” if California’s Proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage) hadn’t won. Similar anti-gay initiatives passed in other states. Thanks, bigots.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Hallelujah! It IS nice to look everyone in the eye and be AMERICAN together!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I slept like a babe last night because of this.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I think, as Tolkien once said of Saruman, that they could still do some mischief in a small, mean way. I think he also said ‘a snake without fangs may crawl where it will.’
November 5th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Obama has one hell of a battle ahead of him. But he’s intelligent enough to understand that.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I bought an American flag today. A year ago, I wouldn’t have minded burning one.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Here! Here!
@Ross, yeah 🙁
November 6th, 2008 at 5:44 am
I am also excited, but trying to remain on an even keel about it.
The balance of power has shifted, but that also means the clock had begun to tick.
Four years from now there MUST be a concrete difference in the way things are done here in the beautiful United States.
Four years from now Obama HAS to be able to point to several key items – The ‘War’ in the desert, Health Care, Net Neutrality, Global Warming – and show that real progress has been made.
Otherwise every person who voted for change will feel cheated.
So feel excited, feel comforted, but you should be prepared to work – and I do mean you, personally – whoever you are reading this.
Otherwise this opportunity will be wasted.
And we won’t be able to blame the ‘red’ states at all…
November 6th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I danced in the streets like a madman Tuesday night, and while I think there should be a week-long moratorium on political cynicism, I’m haunted by that Brecht line: “Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
November 7th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I have never enjoyed an American election day so much. It was brilliant. Congratulations.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
indeed remember the cheyenne now on thereservation on the Mars planet some call it that
Cling to Curvature and wait fer those tequillan Diamonds from the mine