There's Hope
Earlier this year, Candyce shared this video with me to put into words why she was supporting Barack Obama. I was in the Hillary camp at the time, but I realize that my support of her was mainly because she's a woman who shares some of my beliefs and I felt she had a good chance to win.
Watching the video, I got goosebumps. Obama's not someone that I want to support because of what he is, but because of what he can bring. Optimism. Respect. Dignity. Hope.
I'm glad he ran for president. I'm glad he's doing so well. I feel a sense of contentment that an Obama win is going to make a difference. It won't change the world overnight, maybe, but the change has already begun, hasn't it?
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posted by Owl Chick @ 11/04/2008 07:46:00 PM
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Change began a long time ago when the Republicans led by President Lincoln reunited a divided nation and abolished slavery. Huge changes happened a hundred years later when the Democrats finally stopped pushing for segregation in the 1960s. 1967 saw a black man appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and in the decades since we have seen blacks elected as Governer (a southern state even, Virginia), Senators, Congressmen, and many other leadership positions all the way up to the President of the United States last night.
But you will never have equality if you keep asking for inequality from special priviledges to affirmative action programs. And as long as we have people like the KKK, Arian Nation, and Louis Farrakhan spouting the hate they do, then the dream of equality and peace that Obama, you, or I might want to happen will always remain just a dream.
You're such a pessimist. :P
The thing of it isn't that he's a black man, but that he's the right man at the right time.
I want America to enjoy the prestige it used to have, before we started going over and messing in other peoples' countries without being asked for help. I want to know my Commander in Chief isn't a twitchy, bitter and angry old man. I want to know that the VP is completely capable of stepping up to the tasks appointed to him and that if anything were to happen, the VP is someone I would also trust to lead.
That's why it's so marvelous. It almost has nothing to do with equality or racism or anything like that. It has to do with being tired of cranky old men leading us places willy-nilly without thinking it through.
Obama will make his decisions based on intelligent thought and reason. That's pretty clear and it's about time we have someone in that office who works that way.
In very deed.
However, I admit, I had this amazingly petty thought before I voted...
"He may be total ass at leading, but he speaks well. At least he won't sound like a moron while he's leading us to Hell."
After the last eight years, that's a pretty big perk.
The right man at the right time...I need to make a post about that. :)
So he speaks well, most politicians do, that's how they got there. So I'm sorry but I disagree, if you throw race out of the equation he is just another lawyer turned politician, which most seem to be lawyers for some reason. There will be no more change in the next four years than it has in the last 100 plus years we have only had these two parties to choose from. Everything is controlled by Democrats so for the next four years the middle class and up will be targeted to pay the bills.
The only good thing I see is finally the possibility some sort of national health care plan will be passed for all of the Americans who do not have health care now. If Obama, Congress, and the Senate can't at least do that when they control everything then we won't even have that small change.
He's a Punahou grad, he'd better be a great public speaker. That President Kennedy dude was a great public speaker, too, until someone who disagreed with his agitation for change blew the guy's brains out one sunny afternoon in Dallas.
We haven't learned any lessons about pinning our national hope on one man with a gosh-darned good campaign slogan.
Still, the video was friggin' awesome. Props to young America for making their message their way.
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