President Obama,Whom I call president, because I will never think of you in any other way, nor have I ever trusted any other person to stand in a position of authority over my life, my child's life, and the lives of all Americans. Whom I bless with this title forever, as in my mind it was today that you won this election because you spoke truth to power, while giving power back to the hands of this democracy for overdue self-reflection.Many are stunned. Many are frightened. Many are healed. Your words -- yes, words of "just words" fame -- moved people to tears all over this Nation today, and their tears joined them irregardless of race, religion, sexual preference, gender, age, or other tired Cartesian categories. Today, you asked us to think beyond the binary, beyond the boxes where we place our living corpses numbly like so many statistics, in denial of our complex humanity. Are people ready for change? That is no longer the question. The question is are they ready to lift the blinders of apathy, hatred, fear, and illusion and embrace not only one another with love but moreover, themselves. Can we trust in ourselves to be more moral, you asked us?And yet my words fall short as I try to synopsize the already perfect statements you lay forth, plain and simple for the grasping.Today, I joined the tears across an America too stunned by the honesty of your words to know what to say, what to think, how to respond. You bypassed my intellect completely with your oration, taking me by the hand into the place where my heart and soul lie instead. So together we all wept, joining you in your vision of unity, rejoicing that for one moment The Emperor Wore No Clothes. We wept because you took us beyond words.I am an eloquent woman, a writer even, but there is nothing more I can say to the pure fire of the spirit that you glowed with today. There is no commentary I can add. I cannot reduce your speech to analysis or punditry. The words became a heartbeat we all felt at once, sharing in the embryo of a singular American Dream, waiting to finally be born.Nothing can ever take this experience away from us.You've already always won.
~Straight from the heart, sorry but not even going to grammar check this, it would only diminish my point.
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