So I can't help but blog a little about the election that just ended. Despite the fact that I think some people are done hearing about it, I have a little more to say.
I was watching coverage of the race on comedy central. That's how attuned the young voters were to this election. When the news came in about Obamas win I can't lie...I was elated. It seems like so many things were a factor for this years elections....race, age, gender, ect ect ect. These are not the things I saw. I saw that Obama is a intelligent man who could possibly fix some of the horrible things going on in our country right now. Some people make it seem like it is, pardon the expression but black and white. That if Obama is president, the end of the world will ensue. Well pardon me, but I happen to believe that if McCain had won, there was a good possibility that several of my friends would be drafted to Iraq shortly there-after. It may not have ended the world, but it would have made my world end if any one of my good friends fell at the hands of a president who seems to think that the war in Iraq is still helping anyone.
The amount that we have spent on the war we will never get back, but you know what it could have done to help us? It could have paid in full for the bailout we are now considering....we wouldn't have had to borrow any money from China....it could have paid for every American to get a free education...there are a large number of things that we could have done instead of spending it on a war that we didn't and don't need right now.
So...I voted for my future. How I saw it best...and I saw it with a man that has the vision to end the war, to fix the economy, to do all the things that Bush couldn't. But here is the thing...the president is still just a man. If everyone keeps looking at this as black and white, good and evil...nothing will ever be fixed. How about instead we are just Americans looking to better the world we are living in now?
And to those people who still say, "we are screwed" and that is a direct quote from someone I know. Well, that kind of depends on you...but as I see it, the numbers have it. The large and vast majority of Americans want to...need to see change. And this is the first President since John F. Kennedy that inspires enough passion to do it. I can't remember the last time people felt so proud and hopeful.
