We are about to make history.

[Sannum]

This election is so important to me. It is the result of so many dreams, tears and sleepless nights. Eight years of disbelief and despair about where this great country has gone. Many years from now, children will read about this time as a period that seems like the "olden days". It will be explained to them, just as Roosevelt and Kennedy were explained to my generation. A distant time, only seen on television and in books. Anything will be possible to them.

President Obama and Vice President Biden will only be a portrait on a wall, or a chapter in their history book when we tell them how much it really means to us. They will probably roll their eyes when we tell them about this time in history. Tears used to fill my grandmothers eyes when she spoke of voting for President Kennedy and I was too young to understand how enormous that time was to her. I was only 6 years old, and I could never understand why she cried when describing the moment when she cast her ballot, and the all too short period of time when President Kennedy lived in the White House.

Many years from now we will tell our grandchildren that one day in November 2008 the nation came together to elect a great man after many years of hardship and suffering. Tears will fill our eyes when we tell them how much President Obama meant to us. This great man did what most people just a few years before thought was impossible. He made it possible for the generations to come to achieve the impossible and reach for the stars. We know what it felt like when our grandparents lived in a time of great change. When they dared to dream, and those dreams came true.

This election means so many different things to so many different people. It not only means the end of the Bush administration. It is the end of too many years, when people would say that someone "like that" or one of "those people" could never achieve their dream. I was raised to believe that no goal was too lofty and no dream was too impossible. This moment, there is a different feeling in the air. We are going to make history. We are going to work hard and we are going to win. There is no alternative to victory.

We will win because we MUST win.

[Tinky]

1. we are about to make history

Beautiful, i could not have said it better.

[BlooInBloo]

2. I love all of the Obama + kid pics - you can feel how much he cares about all of them.

[TTUBatfan2008]

3. LOL...

he's a politician. A very good one, but still a politician. Don't forget that.

Having said that, did I mention he's a very good...scratch that...GREAT politician? One thing I've noticed is that he usually does not pander on cheap political points. Like this recent bailout crap or the gas tax holiday earlier in the campaign. While other politicians are willing to jump on these things he seems to be more patient and sticks to regular campaigning. He has a ton of passion and perhaps that is why he doesn't come off like such a panderer when he speaks to regular people, kids, etc.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Go away.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. WTF?

Obama is the only politician I've ever donated money to. He's a great politician. But he is a politician. Their number one goal is getting votes. I am excited about the fact that the shit Bush was pulling against Kerry is not working against Obama. I'm excited that Obama seems to be overcoming the still unacceptable amount of racism in this country. And I am excited about the prospect of having a President who is a genuinely nice person and can speak eloquently to other leaders around the world instead of embarrassing us. But he is still a politician, not the second coming.

[Usrename]

7. I think he's a little more accomplished than you realize.

He hasn't always been a politician, although he is one now.

He's also a successful writer and a gifted scholar and academic.

Who else, other than a politician, can save this world from the first American despot?

There's a lot more to what you are witnessing than just speaking eloquently or being a nice person.

Do you realize that he is compared to Lincoln and Kennedy? Think about it.

I've never seen anything like this brand of courage or strength.

[TTUBatfan2008]

10. Oh I realize he is a brilliant man...

Smarter than Kennedy by a long shot in fact. He's probably one of the smartest people to ever run for president. You don't do what he did at Harvard without having a shit ton of smarts. And on the other side, there's a man who benefited from nepotism and barely graduated from the Naval Academy 4th from the bottom of his class. The contrast between the two is striking.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Sannum!

Yes, we are about to make history!

We Must.

And We Will.

K&R

Beautifully put, sweetie...

:patriot:

[RichardUK]

8. Important to us too over here

This election is very important to us (the UK) too. We're essentially looking to the US to keep our nation relevant. We're like a parent who see's their rebellious progeny leave home (The US declaration of independence) but once retired (losing our empire and status in the world) needs their rebellious child to come and take care of them in their retirement.

The idea of John McCain taking care of us for the next five years is quite frankly terrifying.

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. I can imagine how those in the UK must feel (and elsewhere in the world).

I'm very glad your viewpoint is here, RichardUK. :)

Yes Sannum, I too feel very much the same as during the JFK election - I was 10 to 13 during his Presidency and remember it vividly. JFK was NOT expected to win btw, not at all, it was very much uphill and a cliffhanger all the way. Obama has the same prerequisites as JFK, we have every reason to have high hopes for him, even though he will be walking into quite a mess to clean up.

McCain would be a disaster upon a disaster, here, and for the world.

Our founders foresaw this, it's nothing unexpected or new. They knew we would always have to struggle against a gullible and misguided percentage of people, as well as the power elites. It's doubly difficult being a "nation of immigrants" with so many constantly new people who are not always so quickly up to speed on how things work here. So, very often, we are hoodwinked and have to suffer the consequences of treasonous villains. It's the ultimate ongoing struggle in the "marketplace of ideas". It isn't easy - but was never expected to be. We should remember though, that "the system does work" and we have recovered before, from such wrongheaded cycles of history, as this Reagan/Bush era has been.

Maybe someday soon, "corporatism" can be finally discredited as a political agenda, through seeing stark-enough results of such folly, never to return again one would hope.

Here's to history, yes. :patriot: May it be on our side this time.

Thanks for your beautifullly written post, Sannum. :)

[TheDonkey]

11. I have hope. But we have a month left. We must continue to FIGHT. Nothing is given.

[K Gardner]

12. My grandchild is living this dream, this history, with me now.. and for that I am

more thankful than you can imagine. He was born one month after Bush took office.