This morning was like Christmas morning. It was even more exciting than Christmas morning, because Christmas has become about the children, and while it is fun to watch, I don’t get that same tingly excitement that I got when I was a child.
This morning was like running to the tree, as I went to the polls at 6:50 a.m. and stood in the cold wind at the end of a long line. I didn’t care about the cold. I ignored the polite conversation of the people around me. I was focused.
I realized this morning that I was being given a special gift today. I have been voting since 2000. In 1996, it was Clinton, and the world seemed stable, and politics unimportant. This is the first time as a voting adult that I am voting in an election without W. The first time that I won’t see Bush inexplicably win an election. The first time that I think my vote will lead to real, positive change in the nation.
I blissfully cast my vote today. On NPR, a woman described her voting experience as “enchanting.” There is magic in the air today. Today there is the possibility of the impossible; a premonition of what we can be.
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I'M SO EXCITED!!!! And um...why are abortion and same-sex marriage still issues? Is this not 2008?
I love you all and am so happy that Barack is president. However I must make myself Debbie Downer and point out that none of our votes counted. As Chutah point out, it's 2008 and we still don't have a fair election system a.k.a. the popular vote. We could have avoided the first 4 years of the past 8 years of horror is we had a fair election. Soon I will unleash my plan to take over the vote and make it FAIR.
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