A big Change....

We stood staring at the screens, not knowing what to expect. Our candidate was the dark horse. Who could win this election? We've seen the signs, we've heard the political analysts. Who will it be. Starting in on the 12 pack of Yuengling I honestly wasn't sure. After an hour or so of pleading from my roommates that we should go downtown to witness the historic outcome were fruitless.

I sat staring at the computer screen tired and fed up with political analysts. But, I gave in. Let's go witness history. We went to 202 where a huge Democratic party was held. We got beers and scoffed at the "projections" that the news media spewed on the screen. "what's final?" we asked. We talked with fellow Democrats. A mother with two kids with special needs demanding that the next president understand and help her situation. Obama was her man. The local news woman was in position to record her place in history and packed up and left as soon as the final decision was made. McCain made his concession speech and it began to sink in. Seconds after the polls closed on the West Coast, it was over. We had a president. the polar opposite of the Yale-educated son of a president rich kid that we have now. We now have an unknown, an outsider, an American, a person, a human that can understand what the rest of us go through day in a day out.

The announcement was made and hugs were obligatory. Blacks hugging whites, whites hugging blacks, people hugging people. Humanity, Americans united under the smiling, dignified face of Obama on the big screen. This was our unifying moment. This was us looking back on years and years of blacks on the back of the bus and separate water fountains. and now, we have a true American as president. A unifying figure bringing together all different parts of the American landscape, hugs for Obama. :Here we are, on a new landscape, a new horizon for America, for humanity, for working mothers, for working fathers, for gay citizens, for Hispanic citizens, for infants, for teens, for imagrants, for Canadians, for Mexicans, for the disabled, for POWs, for veterans, Army, Navy, National Guard, Coast Guard, Red Cross, for the elderly, for blacks, whites, and every other citizen of the United States, here we are. Lets work together to make this the country we want to be a part of rather than the countr we're ashamed to admit we're from. nothing can stop us.