obama.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008One could have predicted Obama would have won, but I certainly would have never imagined how much he would have won by. Impressive.
The most exciting part, however, was being in downtown Portland as the 2008 Election results were being announced. We were on the MAX (or right about to get on it) when Dan first got the text message. Soon other people piled in on the MAX. One guy asked us, “Did Obama really win?” and we said, “Yeah. Exciting! Blah. Blah. Blah.”
Later, we passed by other MAX stops. At the first one, we heard groups of minority teenagers screaming for Obama. At the second one, a bunch of elderly white people were running to the MAX, smiling their fucking faces off. As soon as they got on, they started chanting and singing some weird song. They were on their way to the Convention Center, where some Obama party was going on. Weird crap. Blind Obama followers FOR THE LOSE. But it was cuter because they were old. Let’s just hope he really can make some fucking change.
This is written really terribly because Micah is harassing me while I am writing this ~__~
The fact that so many people were SO godamn happy about this election was really quite refreshing. The feeling in the air was like it was Christmas or something! I’ve never witnessed such excitement about voting, and I’m pretty sure most Americans my age have not. When we got to Cooperstown as the results were just being announced, the energy was insane. There were only a handful of people in the bar, but they were shouting, cheering, reveling in the great great victory. For once, it felt like everyone in a city was actually genuinely happy. Granted, it was fairly short lived, as later on that evening (maybe even like an hour later), people were decidedly less excited… but still.
I don’t know if Obama is the savior to all things like many Obama supporters believe. At this moment, it doesn’t really matter, though. He’s better than McCain. That IS what matters. It also matters that Americans finally elected a non-white man into office, and that alone is a symbol that perhaps we are not as idiotic as we 99% of the time seem. In fact, maybe on a global scale, we’ll actually become damn near respectable for once. Hopefully. Who knows. Let’s hope so 