Are we watching HISTORY being made?

[fadedrose]

The first black man (1/2 black anyway) may soon become president!!

How awesome it is to be a part of watching it. Even tho I wanted Edwards, there is a thrill of seeing it happen. Imagine the inauguration if Obama wins! The excitement of seeing him pick the new cabinet!!

Relations with the blacks should greatly improve when it gradually sinks in that Americans are not as prejudiced as they believed. Even Obama's showing in the primaries establishes that fact.

If Hillary wins, there is only one message our young women can take from it, and that is, you can become president if your husband was a president, or possibly your father. Forget about doing it on your own for another 50 years.

Obama can credit his victories to the desire of the people for drastic change--and to the really crummy, evil, pathetic, crooked, inept, dangerous and any other bad descriptions you can think of the outgoing thank God Bush administration.

[greyl]

1. And it's the kind of history that's a pleasure to watch being made, for a change. nt

[Colobo]

2. We are watching history in the making for real.

[Beregond2]

3. History...

Yes, I was thinking about this today myself. Like many people who grew up in the sixties, I have felt, well...betrayed by history. Dreams were so big then, hopes so high. But from the day McGovern lost, it has felt like it was all downhill. What victories there were came at such a high price, and took so long, and so very, very much was not achieved.

Now, suddenly, we see a black man about to become the Democratic nominee for President, with a very good chance of being elected. When I project myself back in time, and remember those days; the blatant, unrepentant racism, the astonishing courage it took to face that, the sacrifices that were made. And it has so often seemed that nothing much came of it.

But now, this. This seems like the culmination of so much. And it gives me hope that even more may be to come.

Hope. There's that word again. It feels good.