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Finally, Election Night, revised from the streets of the Upper West Side

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I have political things to say for one last time. But today isn’t the day. I will never forget last night. Never. I didn’t let anybody believe it until it was officially called and the screaming began. It was every holiday run into one. Oh the Europeans who act so superior because we’re so backwards? We’re not and most of us never were

People were screaming from their apartments. We ran downstairs with noisemakers, champagne and loud voices.

Ambulances hunked their horns. The Upper West Side was alive tonight. Truckers were screaming. Cabs hunked and the drivers screamed “Obama.” “Yes we can.”

Tonight was the night we took back America and I don’t apologize
for saying that

The USA went to war in our names. We didn’t want that war

I’m leaving New York but I will never forget tonight.

And I just never might write about politics again. I didn’t write about politics because I thought I was a better writer or had better thoughts. I wrote out of frustration

Tonight is a night to celebrate. I’m listening to Obama and know he can heal a wounded nation

I’m listening to my friends and well they’re crying when they’re not chanting

It was so liberating to run down the streets screaming. So so liberating

Trucks are blasting their horns. People are screaming on the streets. We’re screaming back when not crying

People other places don’t understand why we’re crying. Oh hell we’re crying because Karl Rove said we wanted therapy for terrorists. We’re crying for eight good years made bad.

We’re crying for a new generation who won’t know the type of prejudice we knew.

We’re crying for an America that once again will be great. We can travel proudly and not be ashamed. Not wear that tee shirt “don’t blame me I didn’t vote for him.” Not that I care what other countries think.

I care because I love this country and tonight people like me who didn’t support the Bush regime; who thought if only somebody actually read and acted on the 8/06/01 memo had been president life could have been so different. Tonight we got our voice back

Comments

  1. I got home a couple of hours ago from driving miss daisy’s to the polls. I didn’t tur on the news until an hour ago. I can’t bear to watch it so I’m going to eat dinner with friends here at my place and drink beer – something I rarely do ( beer that is).
    I’m sure I’ll be drawn to the computer on and off.

    The networks calling PA for Obama five seconds after the polls closed gets me kind of nervous.

  2. holding breath…fingers crossed…going to clean house & listen to NPR…

    I’ve never waited in such a line to vote, but everybody was excited, happy & quite content to wait to cast their vote.

    All for Obama, of course!

  3. it looks good for Obama–i know, I wasn’t safe as I only today (after I voted) admited who I was voting for (although most people could have figured it out as some of my early posts were anti-Bush satires.

  5. I am hoping change for the better although that 8/6/01 memo should had been given over 1/20/01. I don’t know that 1 month would have been enough time especially since everone was against the Patriot Act and those guy were in the US for 10 years prior already training.

  6. Obama’s victory speech was the greatest speech of my lifetime. By the end, there were tears in my eyes, and I’m still not entirely sure why.

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