A NEW DAY FOR THE COUNTRY
A fantastic voter turn-out . . . the young adult faces, missing in national dialogue in years past . . . a moving concession speech by Senator McCain (a side of him missed these past months) . . . a powerful and truly moving (did you see Jessie Jackson and Oprah with a tear?) victory speech by President-elect Barack Obama, a speech not only to the nation, but to the whole world . . . character trumping political sound-bites . . . a people still living in prejudice seeing the possibility of "a promised land" . . . folk in Europe and Asia and the Middle East and and Britain and Asia-minor and Australia and Africa and New Zealand and Greenland feeling and celebrating a renewed sense of global care and partnering . . . the word "respect" re-entering the international lexicon when talking about the United States . . . "hope" the DNA of our national tomorrow, I hope.
Perhaps all the flowers will come back, after long-time passing. I only pray and hope that a sea change has, in fact, come!
Think I'll keep my "Obama 2008" bumper sticker on for a bit.
(Sea Change -a poetical or informal term meaning a profound transformation; big significant change. The expression is Shakespeare's, taken from the song in "The Tempest".)
2 comments:
Nice to finally be able to feel proud of my country once again. It's been a very long, very dark time.
I certainly agree. My sister described the Seattle celebrations that night (I sent a clip) as like a crowd reacting when a horrible dictator is overthrown.
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