Nolan has informed me that Barack Obama has won and that it’s a good thing because McCain was kind of rude. Now he sits on the couch leafing through an old issue of Rolling Stone looking for pictures of Barack Obama (every time he says the first and last name).
Liam kneels on the floor playing with a Spider-man action figure, talking about how bendy he is.
Looking at them being their normal Tibbley selves makes me weepy. They have no idea about the historical impact of last night. While they know about the election and even went to the polls yesterday with my sisters, they are just too young to understand. It is amazing. They will never remember a world where a black person cannot be president. They will come of age in a country that values intelligence, innovation, and inspires hope.
Isn’t it magical?
I thought of it as the desire to stuff my little ones with appreciation so that they resembled Randy from A Christmas Story.
after reading this post this morning, i have been thinking about this all day. and the idea that there is a young generation who will grow up with obama as the first president they really remember makes me teary and goose bumpy. thanks for putting it in a way i hadn’t even thought about.
I am, as always, a liberal to individual rights and a conservative when it comes to economic matters.
Obama being President makes me happy that any man can be president, and sad that everyone has chosen to overlook his complete political destruction of Ms. Clinton, denying the office from the steady and stable hand a woman can bring.
Obama being President makes me hopeful that social reform has never been more of a tangible goal, and sad to know he may never get an opportunity to work on that given the severe economic and foriegn relation issues he must address first.
In the end, a political figure won the race. To get there he had to treat people unkindly, undermine credibility and portray some people as the Anti-Christ him/herself. I have hope for the future, but I’m unsure of any structure that’s built on the same garbage that undermined so many before.