November 4, 2008

November 4, 2008 will be a date we mark in history as the first time we elected a Hawaiian as president. Oh and he happens to be a black man too. I am not a political follower but like many others this election has made me take notice. I got tears in my eyes watching Barack Obama and his family on the podium election night. Look at our new first family! How great is that!?

What I want to record, remember, and write down to read in future is how it felt this week. How it seems like we as a country are on the verge of change. There is a pride in the country as if we have done something right politically as a group. We may not all agree with the new choice of president but there is a feeling of optimism. Maybe we can change, maybe we can move forward together without crushing each other in the process. Not us or them but we together. I wonder if this is the way my parents’ generation felt when Kennedy was elected. All things are possible again. Their generation went to the moon, we just want to get out of an economic crisis and learn to be a better world leader instead of micro-manager of the world’s troubles or worse being a bully.

We may be tempted to put all the weight of change on our new President Obama. That would be a dangerous thing to do. He is one man he can’t do this all alone. But he is a man willing to take the bull by the horns and lead. We are going to have to be the hands all around helping to put things in action, and willing to compromise for the good of the whole. As Obama said in his election night speech, Yes We Can.

Posted 11/9/2008 @ 2:30 PM | Weekly Thoughts