Last night as I watch MSNBC and watched the polling result rolling in and when Obama slipped closer to 270 I got the feeling of a warm fuzzy blanket being wrapped around my shoulders. Then at just a minute or two before 10 o'clock they announced that Barack Obama would be our 44th president and I was thrilled. This feeling was finally trumped by Baracks speech he gave in Chicago in his opening statement.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
Even if you are Republican, if you read the words and understand them you have to say that these words are inspirational in the hope that the United States of America as a whole can move forward to solve the problems that has gotten a grip on this country. If you heard these words regardless of who said them brings about a a feeling of pride in my country. A feeling I haven't felt for a long time.... I hope this feeling doesn't going away.
3 comments:
I like it!
I also thought that McCain concession speech was excellent. Seems that maybe he should have used that writer a little more.
I had the same feeling and the same sense of hope. The words were incredibly powerful.
I agree both speeches the acceptance and concession speeches did make me feel better about things but I hope everyone can put their own agendas aside and move forward to help our nation. I also wonder if it would have gone the other way if the same feeling would have been there? No one will ever know.
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