Well, look at that! He did it.
He won it with 52% of the popular vote to McCain's 46%. Not bad. And he knocked off Red State after Red State. Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Nevada, bam bam bam... the list goes on. He did it. He convinced a LOT of people that he embodied hope, he personified change, and he held the keys to our transition back to prominence and greatness in the world.
HE DID IT.
While all the celebrating was going on, the world took notice, too. In Gaza, Israel and Hamas launched an assload of missiles at each other. Medvedev (the Kermit to Putin's Jim Henson) declared in his State of the (former Soviet) Union address that they will be placing short-range missiles along the EU's eastern border as a response to the planned U.S. missile defense system in that region. Apparently, this is the start of the Joe Biden-predicted "testing" of the fresh-faced new kid in town.
But still, what a moment. I didn't vote for this guy. I know he's destined for abject failure. I didn't fall for the soaring rhetoric and feel-good imagery. I CREATE feel-good imagery for a living; I know it's all a facade! Naw, I wasn't fooled, not for one second.
But what a MOMENT! Sometimes you have to see beyond the politics and see the humanity of the moment. And watching those crowds celebrate in the streets, you have to concede that there was a triumphant moment occurring, when people were able to take their hope to the polls and see the fruits of it. Watching Jesse Jackson in tears, or Juan Williams choking up as he reported on it, you had to feel some sort of happiness for them. This was a moment to remember.
Revel in it. I'll allow it for a day or two.
1 comments:
Don't get me wrong, I think this is an amazingly triumphant win (I didn’t vote for him, but I respect the magnitude of it all), but did you see when Jesse Jackson started crying? The cameras were trained on him and Oprah for at least 15 seconds before he realized the cameras were on him and he wasn’t crying. When noticed the cameras he then started crying. I have little to no respect for Jesse Jackson and I’m sure Obama doesn’t have much more than me what with the whole “cutting off his balls” comment.
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