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The Audacity of Hope
Nov. 5th, 2008 | 01:25 am
Stepping aside from the euphoria for a moment, I am well aware that Obama is not perfect, nor omnipotent. He's got a tough row to hoe (as McCain would have had he won), and I'm frightened to think what kind of additional trouble Bush and Co. might cause during the dwindling days of their "mandate".
But I can't help but be glad to live in a country that would choose hope and possibility over cynicism and fear. I hope the 106-year-old Atlantan woman who voted for the first time today is done proud by her choice. I hope that the person who added an obscene, racist word to the Sarah Palin entry on Wikipedia tonight overcomes his or her fear of people who look or think differently.
I hope the little old lady at a McCain rally who called Obama an "Arab" as if that word was synonymous with "Nazi" lives to see a day when she doesn't believe dark-skinned people with unfamiliar-sounding names are automatically evil or dangerous. I hope my grandmother, who would have voted Republican for the first time in her life had she remembered to register, lives to see a day when she can once again have faith in the party she used to trust.
I hope Americans come to understand that the reproductive plumbing of their neighbors bears no weight on the validity of their relationships, nor does what they call those relationships weaken or strengthen what anybody else calls theirs.
I hope that my friend who wanted Hillary to be the candidate gets campaign for her in a future election and attend her victory party. I hope she is the candidate in 2016 because "YES WE CAN" has crossed party lines and become the confident mindset of a truly United States. Is that so wrong?
God Bless Barak & Michelle, Joe and Jan and their children. God bless John & Sarah and their families. God Bless America.
But I can't help but be glad to live in a country that would choose hope and possibility over cynicism and fear. I hope the 106-year-old Atlantan woman who voted for the first time today is done proud by her choice. I hope that the person who added an obscene, racist word to the Sarah Palin entry on Wikipedia tonight overcomes his or her fear of people who look or think differently.
I hope the little old lady at a McCain rally who called Obama an "Arab" as if that word was synonymous with "Nazi" lives to see a day when she doesn't believe dark-skinned people with unfamiliar-sounding names are automatically evil or dangerous. I hope my grandmother, who would have voted Republican for the first time in her life had she remembered to register, lives to see a day when she can once again have faith in the party she used to trust.
I hope Americans come to understand that the reproductive plumbing of their neighbors bears no weight on the validity of their relationships, nor does what they call those relationships weaken or strengthen what anybody else calls theirs.
I hope that my friend who wanted Hillary to be the candidate gets campaign for her in a future election and attend her victory party. I hope she is the candidate in 2016 because "YES WE CAN" has crossed party lines and become the confident mindset of a truly United States. Is that so wrong?
God Bless Barak & Michelle, Joe and Jan and their children. God bless John & Sarah and their families. God Bless America.