Was there ever a public figure who you found saying the same things you said?
"Even if I did not win your vote, I am listening to you."
Oh very yes. Good heavens, if you didn't know that about me, what are you doing here?
It's time to play this one again.Why yes, it is my boy. But I'll bet you aren't familiar with the tune. Or maybe you have enough of a memory to remember that he did it for the first Super Bowl halftime after 9/11. No?
Or maybe you'll remember that he wrote it for
rededication of the Statue of Liberty on July 3, 1986. Maybe.
So many of you don't remember how it felt when Clinton was elected. Or Reagan, let alone Carter.
I remember Kennedy - and for the first time, I've help elect a President younger than I am. (He was born in August of 1961 - me, November 1960, less than a year. I've elected a contemporary. It's - amazing.)
What you are seeing in action, is my country coming back to life. The one I knew growing up - not some socialist fable or failed experiment. My two cents -
Everything just seems better when he shows up. Looking at his history, this is someone who grew up having to listen to a lot of people wonder out loud what the bleep he was doing there - wherever it was at the time - so I think he knows very well how to listen and make a way through to common ground, wherever it might be.
I've never been at a campaign headquarters on election night before. Oh my, don't miss it if you can the next time around - it's awesome. My local elected officials were there - I have the cards to prove it - and I got to give them awesome hugs, congrats and speak in LOLCAT to them. It's just - *sighs* - awesome.
As for Prop 8? It's not over. Regardless of the outcome - you have to know this, right? So dig deep, take that deep breath and center. We get to go back and try again - or they will. I'll make book on it right now.
Prop 1A is passing, dudes.
*yawns* And I am going to bed. Pictures perhaps tomorrow.