I just returned home from voting. I’m feeling a little nervous, a little anxious, but overall I feel real good.
I parked, walked in, found the table for my district, and signed my name. There were a total of four booths in the courtroom, two for each district. I was directed to one of them and immediately flicked the lever for Barack Obama and Joe Biden once I closed the curtain. I voted for the other candidates running for various offices, opened the curtain, said my goodbyes to the volunteers, and came home.
Renee will stop at the town hall on the way home and hopefully have as easy a time as I had.
We’ll be watching CNN (after Indecision ‘08) into the late hours so I’m sure I’ll be in rough shape tomorrow. But I hope that I will go to sleep with a smile on my face and wake up to realize it wasn’t a dream. That Barack Obama is indeed the next President of the United States.
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics
I decided it would be better to vote on the way home rather than on my way to work. This turned out to be a big mistake. I keep watching the clock. I am pre-occupied, and anxious. I am sitting at my desk wishing I had a rum & coke to calm my nerves. They keep playing Sam Cooke's “A change is Going to Come” on KISS FM with Barack's speech coming through now and again.
Some coworkers and I were talking about the passing of Barack's grandmother. Someone said it is so sad that she couldn't hold on one more day. My answer to her was just this… He is all right now, so she could go. She got him this far and now she has to be one of the angels at his back to carry him over the finish line. I don’t know that I will ever be able to articulate the overwhelming feeling I have for President Obama. Yeah I said it!! If we as a nation can be 1/10 of what he is as a man, we will always have the respect and admiration that this great country deserves.