*dreamy sigh*
Do you see that? There, in the bottom right corner? Cool. Just in case you can’t see it very well:
That’s right. Barack Obama really is our next president. Woohoo!
We had a little party over here last night. I thought when I woke up this morning, Mr. President-Elect would’ve had this place all cleaned up, but he didn’t. I’m beginning to regret my vote. I voted for change and it’s all just the same: I went to bed with a dirty house and woke up with a dirty house. Kidding!
Sorry about the delay in the acceptance speech, but he was busy emailing me to thank me for everything I did for his campaign:
I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.
We just made history.…
But I want to be very clear about one thing…
All of this happened because of you.Thank you,
Barack
Yup, we’re friends. What? Other people got that email too? Well, it’s just because Barack has lots of friends. It doesn’t make my email any less special.
So the kids filled out the electoral college map with red and blue stickers. It came with the School House Rock Election Collection DVD.
They seemed to have fun with that, but they kind of balked at watching the acceptance speech. But Dawn and Kristen and Lynne and I weren’t having it. We forced them to watch history happen and, dammit, we forced them to like it. I liked it. Did you like it? If not, were you as gracious about it as Sen. McCain? Or did you boo like his a-hole supporters did every time he mentioned Obama in his concession speech? That was lame. But I thought McCain’s speech was excellent. Very classy. Now I have to make like Obama and clean up! Have a good first-day-not-worrying-about-the-election! Unless you live in Minnesota.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Did anyone else wake up this morning and fear it was all a dream?
November 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I agree - the booing was discraceful. Shame on them!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I am so tired today..sorry, those minute maids I sent over must have gone to the wrong house. Damn them
November 5th, 2008 at 9:39 am
i’m with you. the booing sucked. when obama mentioned mccain, the crowd cheered/clapped. plus, mccain’s rally had country music and obama’s springsteen. i think THAT says alot.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am
boo all you want bitches, obama is still president. and springsteen is still cool.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I’m forcing my kids to write at least 5 sentences talking about what it was like when they heard he had won so they can be original history sources for kids 100 years from now. And they’ll be better people because of it, dammit!
November 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
First off… Congrats to the President-elect Barack Obama. While I did not vote for this man (take that as you will… McCain? Paul? Some other obscure 3rd party? No choice made for pres?) when I voted, I saw history last night.
When I vote, I give absolutely NO thought to what ‘the rest of the world’ will think. I am voting for the person I want to lead this country (or not voting for, as the case may be) and that person does not have to be the most popular to foreign countries.
That said, I am very happy that much of the world seems VERY pleased with our choice. It will be nice starting from a good place. I hope that Barack is what he says he is… a uniter, a purple-stater, if you will. I think I will believe that he is and take the risk of disappoint rather than believe he is not and live in unhappy cynicism.
Now, during the acceptance speech, Fox cut to Jesse Jackson a couple of times… he was tearing up. As much I am excited about the historic impact of this election, imagine being Jesse Jackson… 40 years ago, you are standing on a balcony… watching one of the great civil rights leaders/inspirers (word?) speak… and, during that speech, be gunned down. Killed simply for touting the real meaning of America…
As Jesse watched MLK die that day 40 years ago, did he believe he would witness the election of a black man as President? Did he think back to the assassination and think… here we are. Everything isn’t perfect, there is work to be done, but, we now have shown that the American dream is not just for certain members of our country. We have shown it is possible. Now, the doors are cracked open a bit, lets push through. Let’s see the true melting pot of America and revitalize all that is good in our nation.
So… I have decided to hope. And, I hope that my hope is validated by the actions of our 44th President. I hope that the majority of McCain supporters get behind our new President… he’s the only one we got for a few years (some of them won’t; just as some of the Obama folks will still find ways to be horrid to those who don’t think as they do)…. But, if we can cut it to 5% or so wackos on either side and the rest just purple staters trying to be united Americans… then this truly is a victory for the whole country.
(BTW… if Candidate McCain had looked/spoke/acted like Concession Speech McCain, this may have been a different looking election. Who the hell did he decide to listen to? Maybe his best place is representing AZ, working in bi-partisanship in the Senate (gang of 14?))
President Barack Hussein Obama… who’da thunk it just 1 year ago?
November 5th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I wasn’t too hung up on the “booing” nor did I see it as anything other than what it was (lame but expected)….I’m sure had it been the other way around there would have been some booing too…’tis human nature, but I was happy to see how classy they both were (Obama’s reference to McCains work for this country made me tear up a bit) and how this has set the tone for many of the tv exchanges I’ve been seeing today which warms my heart. Obama’s grace and ability to reach across sets a high bar so others are reticent to start attacking….just the kind of person he is and the reason I’m so hopeful.
My daughter had the nerve to fall asleep….I woke her up and practically dragged her to the tv!LOL
Love that picture of the kids pointing out our new President….yay!
November 6th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Now just a god-dern minute. I was pretty sure I was the only one getting that e-mail. Did you hack into my account?
I haven’t seen one pundit or anybody else mention this, so I am starting to be afraid that McCain was speaking only to me–but when he said something about Obama and him being fellow Americans and that is the “only association that matters to me” I really thought he was trying to apologize for the whole Bill Ayres thing. And now I read that Sarah started the Ayres attack before McCain had a chance to approve or disapprove it. Hmmmmm.
Anyway, McCain’s speech was gracious, Obama’s was ethereal, and yes, I woke up wondering if I had dreamed it all.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:17 am
@Kathy D
I am glad that you picked up on that comment too, “only association that matters to me”. Although, being the pessimist that I am, it rubbed me wrong. I thougt he was saying, “you idiots elected this man with all these shady assoiciations, but I guess I will focus on the fact hat he is American, but again don’t forget that he has all these shady associations”. I like your interpretation better.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Bryan, there was one other part of McCain’s speech that rubbed me the wrong way, too, but overall I think it was mostly awesome. I was being all rogue with my connecting of the dots, I guess.
Also, if Elisabeth Hasselbeck can be gracious about our new president (I was waiting for a Defcon Level 5 meltdown yesterday on the View but she didn’t come through) then I guess I need to mend some fences myself.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I just now watched McCains whole speech… pretty damned good. Again, who the hell did this guy listen to about campaigning??