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Certainly the most historic election of my lifetime. Maybe even of yours.
Yes, I was alive when JFK was elected. But he was one of history's poseurs, a rich man masquerading as a populist. I loves me some Jackie! And her children. But never had much use for her old man or his brothers, actively despise RFK (HUAC, anyone?) and Teddy (Chappaquiddick.)
Barack Obama's victory is a mandate but not a landslide, at least not in terms of the popular vote. I suspect had John McCain been more temperate in his choice of running mate, the election would have been a lot closer and the results may even have been different. When it came to people who were undecided as recently as two weeks ago, the determining factor seemed to be the judgment that it would be unwise to put an old man in questionable health into the White House when his understudy was so obviously unfit to lead.
I voted for Obama and I'm happy that he won. I wasn't a fan from the get-go – it was the Race Speech that turned me around, particularly after I learned he wrote it himself. An amazingly honest statement, the Race Speech. Honesty in a politician – what a concept!
I think Obama is measured and deliberate enough so that it won't go to his head. (Unlike Bill Clinton.) I liked what he wrote to God on the Wailing Wall: "Make me an instrument of your will." I also like that he didn't capitalize that "your."
I imagine the victory was bittersweet for him – with his grandmother's death, all vestiges of the boy he was growing up have been swept away. There is no one left to be proud of that boy. He has reinvented himself utterly.
As to Sarah Palin – since Ted Stevens won his Senate seat back (despite the conviction), I suppose she will nominate herself to succeed him once he's kicked out. Having had a taste of the national stage there is no way Caribou Barbie is going back to moose-land.
My personal life continues to be very much a struggle right now. I work and I work and I work – and it's not getting better.
Make me an instrument of your will.
Yes, I was alive when JFK was elected. But he was one of history's poseurs, a rich man masquerading as a populist. I loves me some Jackie! And her children. But never had much use for her old man or his brothers, actively despise RFK (HUAC, anyone?) and Teddy (Chappaquiddick.)
Barack Obama's victory is a mandate but not a landslide, at least not in terms of the popular vote. I suspect had John McCain been more temperate in his choice of running mate, the election would have been a lot closer and the results may even have been different. When it came to people who were undecided as recently as two weeks ago, the determining factor seemed to be the judgment that it would be unwise to put an old man in questionable health into the White House when his understudy was so obviously unfit to lead.
I voted for Obama and I'm happy that he won. I wasn't a fan from the get-go – it was the Race Speech that turned me around, particularly after I learned he wrote it himself. An amazingly honest statement, the Race Speech. Honesty in a politician – what a concept!
I think Obama is measured and deliberate enough so that it won't go to his head. (Unlike Bill Clinton.) I liked what he wrote to God on the Wailing Wall: "Make me an instrument of your will." I also like that he didn't capitalize that "your."
I imagine the victory was bittersweet for him – with his grandmother's death, all vestiges of the boy he was growing up have been swept away. There is no one left to be proud of that boy. He has reinvented himself utterly.
As to Sarah Palin – since Ted Stevens won his Senate seat back (despite the conviction), I suppose she will nominate herself to succeed him once he's kicked out. Having had a taste of the national stage there is no way Caribou Barbie is going back to moose-land.
My personal life continues to be very much a struggle right now. I work and I work and I work – and it's not getting better.
Make me an instrument of your will.
