Yes We Can
Nov. 5th, 2008 02:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orikesI know I'm a little late on the posting, but I was at work all night. Still, I wanted to do my own little post to say how happy I am.
I got up around 1pm like I usually do. Showered and headed around the corner to the church where my polling place is. There were no lines and the longest I had to wait was about five minutes as the guy in charge of the voting booth explained how it all worked to a new voter ahead of me. I did my civic duty and then went out to peruse the bakesale the church ladies put on every election day. (I bought a brownie.)
From then on, I avoided the news until I got to work. I was almost afraid to see what was going to happen. The last time, I was so sure that there was no way Bush could win and I was very, very wrong. When the results first started coming in, it felt like there was a pit in the bottom of my stomach. Then it started swinging our way.
I know there's still a lot of work ahead to fix the things we need to fix. Electing Obama is not a magic wand that will fix everything with some fairy dust and some clapping. But it sure is a good start.
I got up around 1pm like I usually do. Showered and headed around the corner to the church where my polling place is. There were no lines and the longest I had to wait was about five minutes as the guy in charge of the voting booth explained how it all worked to a new voter ahead of me. I did my civic duty and then went out to peruse the bakesale the church ladies put on every election day. (I bought a brownie.)
From then on, I avoided the news until I got to work. I was almost afraid to see what was going to happen. The last time, I was so sure that there was no way Bush could win and I was very, very wrong. When the results first started coming in, it felt like there was a pit in the bottom of my stomach. Then it started swinging our way.
I know there's still a lot of work ahead to fix the things we need to fix. Electing Obama is not a magic wand that will fix everything with some fairy dust and some clapping. But it sure is a good start.