Is it just me, or are all of you members of my Obama family going through this crazy loop-de-loop, roller coaster of fear and excitement every day?
I spend half my day feeling exuberant and hopeful and excited and then the other half feeling terrified and sure the Republicans are going to pull off some big election voodoo like they did in 2000 and 2004.
I can tell you that in 2004, the day after the elction, I awoke to the image on television of John Kerry standing on the steps of Faneul Hall, giving his concession speech, and I felt like the world as I knew it, had disappeared.
For months (nay, years) after that election I felt that I was a foreigner, living in a foreign land, with a culture and society that had nothing to do with me--a culture I did not and could not understand--a culture whose values and ideals were so far removed from mine that we could neve see eye-to-eye.
Because, I thought, if there are that many people in this nation who cannot see what a terrible "leader" GWB is, then I do not share the very basic and necessary ideology of what it is to be an "american". I couldn't try to see the "gray area" of that election, for there was none.
This year, this election, the choice is even more clear. And the risk is even more grave.
I can't imagine a worse scenario if these evil clowns could somehow pull this off again.
Please, somebody, talk me down. I feel like I must be underestimating the American people's tolerance for BS and lies and division and distortion, but, after 2004....I just can't seem to warm up to that idea.
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