Yesterday was the 2008 presidential election, Tuesday, November 4th. When I went to bed, it was still too close to call, but the numbers were hopeful, and Barack Obama was ahead in electoral votes. But Indiana and Florida were still too close to call.
I haven’t turned on the TV or the radio and I haven’t checked the internet, yet. I want to hold on to this moment for yet a bit longer, and remind myself of what I’m thinking.
Right now, I am hopeful that after 8 years of short-sighted and self-righteous mismanagement and horrifying foreign policy, that America — the America I fantasize about sometimes — will have risen up out of its doldrums and resoundingly elected, in unprecedented numbers, a black man to the presidency of the United States. The American I fantasize about will have swept aside the negativity of John McCain’s traditionalist Republican campaign (for which I am inclined to fault his advisors more than him), swept aside the obvious ineptitude of the beautiful but dangerous Sarah Palin, and in a landslide victory America will have elected a Harvard-educated Everyman with a background in legal ethics and community activism who worked his way to the top, and barely acknowledge the low tactics of his opponent.
I am almost afraid to look.
But I have to post this now, and then I can see if the results are in, and if the beginning of a new era in America is finally here.
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