I'm so full of positive emotions about the outcome of last nights Presidential election, I don't know where to begin!
My first thought is how we as a nation have "evolved" over the last 150 years so as to elect a "black man" to the highest position in the country. However, there are still signs that, while it is a step in the right direction as far as "maturing", we as a nation are not yet ready for this to happen.
Today while listening to an area radio station, there was a caller who was voicing her opinion that actually made me stop what I was doing, listen to her, and then when she was done, just stand there dumbfounded.
She sounded like a woman that was in her early sixties, more than likely a racist, alarmist, anarchist, and probably had more than 20 cats living with her.
She began her on-air tirade questioning the intelligence of "these college students" (assuming that they held a majority vote) that had helped put this country in the hands of man who will turn this country into a communism, Marxism, and socialism society. (this woman was flyin'!).
She just kept going on about her "isms", all the while the radio DJ was just saying "um.......well.....", until she was cut off after saying she was moving to "f*cking Canada".
If Obama DID want to turn this country the way of the "ism", he would have had to been working on setting up a structure for it at LEAST 20 years ago. Even then, he would have to have enough Democrats in the House of Representatives to back him.
The position of the President is really not much more than a "mouth piece" for structured government.
Yes, he has ideas. But isn't it the House that actually votes on whether or not to let him "do it"?
This is the first election of my adult life that I actually (kinda) got into.
And for me, Barack Obama presented a better campaign that John McCain.
But in the big picture of things, if Obama is allowed to actually serve out his four year term, it will serve in the annuls of history on how we as a people came together to elect a historically minority to lead us into a future of hope.
I for one, look forward to being able to tell my grand-kids how I was able to see a "man of colour" in the White House.
