Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Obama will be giving a weekly address on youtube under the user name ChangeDotGov. This week he released the first of the weekly address’.
Plus he has a new website http://www.change.gov/.
Just one more reason to be hopeful and excited.
Chris and I sat on our couch last night and watched Barack’s acceptance speech. Pillow in hand I hung on his words, inspired by his message and in complete awe at what I was witnessing. I never thought that I would care about politics. I never thought that I would be as (and please pardon the clique) proud to be an American as I am today.
Who would have thought that so many people would turn out to vote, not only for Obama, but just vote? Try to make a difference?
Who would have thought that with two states still uncounted that one man could get 349 of the electoral votes?
And I, certainly did not think I would see Florida and so many other “RED STATES” go to a Democrat.
I make a vow today to stay informed, to stay involved. Our country can only be for the people, if the people make their voices heard.
So I thought I would get to the polls early, maybe be very close to the front of the line today… As I got to my polling place at 5:45… I realized I was 35th in line. By the time the polls opened and our line shifted a little, there were 60 people, and by the time I left, there were at least another 60 waiting to be let it.
It took me 1 hour from the time I got in line to the time I left the polls. But I took the time today, and I went out of my way to Vote.
The only bad thing about my voting experience is that the woman running the paper ballots was not trained well. You the voter are supposed to feed the ballot. Because the ballots can be read the privacy shield is supposed to stay over your ballot as it is fed into the machine. Neither of these things were happening, and while I’m not ashamed of my votes, it still is pretty unsettling that I saw her eyes take note of my presidential vote. And I know it’s small, but I feel something has been taken away from me. My ballot is, no longer my own secret that no one else knows, that is lost…
Still, it was an amazing morning in spite of this.
One final thought, I doubt all the people in line with me today agree with me on who the next president should be. One thing is certain, I feel very lucky to have been able to vote in this election because regardless of how this swings, it means history.
First African American president, oldest first term president, first woman VP.
I know who I voted for (and so does that election judge). Still… I find myself in awe at the fact that I was lucky enough to be a part of this, lucky to be old enough. And I’m happy to say…
I voted in this inspireing, historical election.
I voted for history.
… I wasn’t going to post something like this ever… but…
I just finished watching Barack Obama give his acceptance speech as the Presidential Nominee for the Democratic Party… Words are hard to find.
Whichever side of the political map you are on, your can’t deny that we are witnessing history, we are living during something historic.
Right now I feel inspired. Right now, I am full of emotion.
Right now, I have no more words.
I’M ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE.
Not just in my ability to bring
about real change in Washington …
I’m asking you to believe in yours.
- Barack Obama
