Comments | cruelnails: "I Know A Change Is Gonna' Come, Oh Yes It Is ..."

cruelnails

"I Know A Change Is Gonna' Come, Oh Yes It Is ..."

Nov 05, 2008 12:17

It's difficult to put into words what I'm feeling today, but I want to try. This moment in time is too vast and too important for me not to try and put my feelings down to go back to in the future.

What I'm feeling today isn't gloating, really (although I will take this brief moment to say "Suck it Elizabeth Dole"). I'm just filled with such an ( Read more... )

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meadowgirl November 5 2008, 18:33:33 UTC

a-men!!!!!! i couldn't agree more. :)

cruelnails November 5 2008, 19:08:30 UTC

it's a beautiful day :)

meadowgirl November 5 2008, 19:37:05 UTC

i know!!! :D made better by trying to go to Austin tonight!!!!

cruelnails November 5 2008, 19:54:08 UTC

Enjoy!

happycommuter November 5 2008, 18:39:49 UTC

You know I've been talking with my students all day about last night and I've been trying to get my head around it as well. I'm filled with optimism for the future but also slightly scared about what will happen if he fails. Dave, you have put my head on straigh for me today. Totally great to read this. I don't know if the rest of the country feels this way, but that could just feel that way because of the Rebulican hell that is my job. Students are loving it. Teachers don't seem as happy. Go figure.

cruelnails November 5 2008, 19:10:24 UTC

Students are loving it. Teachers don't seem as happy...

Well, as Whitney Houston taught us all - the children are the future :)

I'm so glad I could spend last night with ya'll.

andrewrotch November 5 2008, 19:28:56 UTC

I think you do well touching on the fact that hope and positivity and cooperation are infinitely better motivators and problem solvers than pessimism, fear and selfishness. I voted for the former: whatever the outcome, this could not have been the wrong choice.

cruelnails November 5 2008, 19:53:17 UTC

I totally agree.

I remember reporters talking about how this was a "change" election and going back to Obama's "Change we can believe in" slogan to emphasize that - but they seemed to always miss (to me) that "change" wasn't the most important word in that slogan, "believe" was.

And that's what won it for him. The fact that the majority of Americans believe in him and in themselves to work together to try to solve all of these problems.