It's a new day for AmericaFollow

Those are nothing compared to the magic that is Pat Robertson's protein shake.

When Obama got to the bit in his acceptance speech about the 106 year old voter, and the changes she's seen, and his repetitions of "Yes We Can" I cried so much that tears ran down my neck.

RedPhoenix put it so eloquently in another post. For the last 50 years or so the USA has had so much power and influence world-wide that what happens in America affects all of us in the rest of the world. (Weight of military, weight of covert ops, weight of economics.)

But the rest of us don't get a vote. I know some of you have found it annoying to have foreigners being so opinionated about your election and your government, but I'm afraid that's what goes with your influence and outright power over people's lives in other nations. We're interested.

I think it's going to be hideously tough for Obama to implement any of his ideas with such a huge deficit. I think it's going to be hideously tough for the States to ride out the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) with such a huge deficit. I'm not sure that the USA will come out of his presidency in real good shape. I just know that you all will come out better than you would have under McCain.

And I'm optimistic that there will be several improvements, including symbolic improvements.

I hope you all come out of his presidency with universal health-care. That the public will pick up what the private doesn't cover. I'm not very optimistic about Iraq's fate, and I don't know how that will rebound on the USA in the long term.

Some of you have said: can we shut up about affirmative action now? I think in another 25 years or so you will be able to completely let it go. I think these things have a lag. It's young children growing up with an African-Arab-American president who will take blacks for granted with whites. It's not Margaret Thatcher's own generation that all thought of and treated women as equal to men. It's the people younger than her, who grew up with her as Prime Minister, who think OF COURSE women have as much say-so as men do in business and in marriage and in politics. We have to wait for the older generations to die off to be completely free of older social conditionings.

Ditto! Fantastic news!

I didn't really tear up until I told Hannah this morning. She's been saying for weeks now that "Bawack Obamwa is a Semator and he's trying to be the President!" I told her while I was on the phone with Smash that he won and she just looked at me and then a little while later she said, "Bawack Obamwa is going to be the President?" and I said, "Yeah! He's going to be President Obama!" and she said, "Yay for President Obamwa!" and did a little dance. That she won't grow up in a country where we've only ever had white men lead just chokes me up. Maybe by the time she's grown there will be a woman in the white house.

Nexa

Smash for Prez 2020!

We figure in two more election cycles we can bankrupt the Mormons and win this thing.

I was sick last night, so I went to bed early and didn't hear the results. This morning I asked my husband who won and he said McCain. I believed him for half a second, the *******.

I was very disappointed in Tennessee last night. I knew McCain would take Tennessee, who the hell didn't? But the margin that he won by... it's sad. It's very, very sad.

Tennessee, Utah, and Oklahoma (I think) were the only states where it was more than a twenty point difference.

Edit: I stand corrected, it was a lot closer than I thought. My numbers were based on the projections when I went to bed last night.

Edited, Nov 5th 2008 10:30am by Belkira

You're the second person who has made this point. One of my old high-school friends on LiveJournal mentioned that her 3-year-old will never remember a time when a person of color couldn't be president.

It really is awesome.

I dont normally cry but I have to say I had tears of joy streaming down my face the moment I realized it was final. In IRC when you guys said they called it, I heard the massive roar of cheering downstairs on my tv and ran to watch. And I just stood there and cried.

The old McCain came out in his speech, and restored a little bit of that lost faith I had in him. I hope he does what he said he would do, and help in anyway he can. When Obama spoke, it was sheer power, strength, courage, and hope. He spoke not for himself, or for the crowd. He did not speak for just those who voted for him or the country. He spoke for the world. And I dont think i'll live to see something so powerful again.

There are going to be times in the future where we will moan and groan over the choices that need to be made. These are not easy choices, but necessary in order to move forward. Growing pains. But we can do it. We can get back to good standing with the world, we can help our own people, we can build a better and brighter future for our kids and grandkids. Yes we can.

This morning I stood outside enjoying the cool air while I tried to wake up, and a little old lady who lives across the street stepped out. We've never introduced ourselves, only waved in acknowledgement. This morning she yelled from across the street "Hi, my name is so and so." i introduced myself back. And then she did a little jig in the middle of the street smiling and saying "Its a new day! We have a new President". And we both laughed and cheered.

It's just a very small example of the hope Obama has brought. if he can get a little old lady in NC to dance a jig in the rain just for winning, my god what else can he help us achieve if we all work our asses off together?

Gawd, you're so hormonal.

At least she did, I didn't for getting misty.