Only in America

 

There has been a lot of discussion about the history we have made with the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. I sensed the history being made as I watched the announcement. It's the sort of stuff that simply had to happen in America, to Americans.

Change really can happen. I remembered when I first heard about Barack Obama. I remember as I clicked my tongue at the ridiculous prospect of a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama running for president. I snickered and sneered when a CNN- Headline News anchor accidentally called him Obama Bin Laden.

I've come a long way. I'm convinced we've chosen the best candidate, but after the last 60 days, I'm convinced he's the best candidate who happens to be black, not because he is black. An old gray-haired lady reminded me that the opposite of "Arab" is not "decent family man." A Governor from Alaska proved that it can't just be any woman, it has to be the right person.

I even learned a lot from John McCain. As I listened to one of his last speeches in Colorado, I had to wonder, "Where the hell has this guy -- this John McCain -- been for the past 60 days?" It just seemed that his best speeches were given on the last day of the campaign. That's the McCain that should have run for president. He's a good man, a patriotic American. We should have seen more of that.

Well, I'm back to work tonight. I've watched 12 hours of political television. Now, it's back to wiping butts.

But I feel exhilarated.

I feel like I've just watched the Eagle land in the lunar Sea of Tranquility;

I've just listened to John F. Kennedy's Inaugural address in 1961;

I've watched the first lauch of Columbia in 1981; and

I've watched as Rosa Parks decided enough was enough, and took a seat at the front of the bus.

Truly, only in America...

Comments

[3rdparty]

The only thing of historic value that has occurred is we have the first-ever black president-elect in U.S. history. As for the "change" he is allegedly going to bring... not so much. Standard Leftist big government welfare-statist policies will accelerate under Obama. And if anyone thinks he is a friend of the health care profession, his advocacy of Universal Health Care (read nationalization) will, if realized, place doctors, nurses, hospitals, and patients under the control of Government bureaucrats. Places like this Licensed Vocational nursing school, indeed all med schools,would face new regulations if Obama had his way.
Now I apologize if I seem to be raining on anybody's parade, but we all must face reality here. Only the introduction of the free market in health care can resolve the problems we face.

[Karen]

Can you believe Virginia went BLUE!! I heard there are now 3 new virginia states, North, South and East (West already is a state).

In any case I agree with you, Barack's a great choice who just happened to be black. I've enjoyed hearing not only reaction of the US leaders like Colin Powell but also world leadership to Obama, and whoever thinks Palin can run in 2012 needs to seriously re-evaluate just what went wrong in McCain's campaign. McCain's last speechs have been phenomenal, I think he focused too often on the wrong messages. (those photo ops with Bush didn't exactly help matters either)

Sadly I saw that as Americans we have a ways to go as certain initiatives did pass (much to my shock actually even in California).

We are living in some amazing times.. now if I can just convince 47% of Virginia that its probably not in their best interest to move to Canada, the caymans or Costa Rica.. ughh