With an open mind I watch… The Republicans. On the other hand, these are not my people. They are too white, they’re too mean, they’re too rude, and they can’t dance. I didn’t hear the Dems boo JMac or ridicule his years of service. I saw many more faces of color in Denver. I am feeling desperate. Nervous. My neighbor says her blood pressure has gone up to 200 since the start of the Republican convention. I pick up Barack’s book The Audacity of Hope and begin reading. It is like a salve to calm my wounded spirit, a scripture for the future.
So, given the choice of hearing tired old McCain deliver a fifty minute speech or a re-run of Coyote Ugly – I choose Coyote Ugly. I’m just tired of seeing a sea of white faces with that born again glow, tired of McCain’s voice whining about being a POW, tired of people talking about a change of power when they’re the ones who have been in power for the past eight years – long years of fear and falling down and falling down again and again.
The way I see it is that Obama IS the second coming who rides around on a unicorn with rainbows adorning his path. I am hopeful finally – with him at the helm, and if it doesn’t happen I will be so sorely sorry. “We are the ones we have been waiting for,” he says. He IS the one I have been waiting for. I can hold on a little bit longer. Please let it be Obama. Please save us.
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