This is my last post before Super Tuesday and its slurry of election results.
Tonight a friend posted on my Facebook wall (oh yes, we’re young’uns around these parts, if you didn’t already know) that: “My faith in humanity (or at least, the democratic party) will be restored with an Obama victory!”
I just wanted the record to reflect that my faith in humanity has already been restored. Obama victories certainly help the enthusiasm crescendo, but the power of finally having something to believe in, of finally having a politician who represents you being heard by millions of people…that’s amazing and that’s what does it. These victories won’t be made hollow in the event that the underdog doesn’t pull through. John Edwards is out of the race but he helped bring progressive values to the table. If Obama goes out (and it won’t be tomorrow) he will have brought hope and a change in rhetoric to the table. Clinton is a chameleon; she’ll pick up those values and those words and that dream and she’ll make them her own and her campaign will be better for it.
I’ve never been so proud of my country as I’ve been in 2008.
“But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
-Barack Obama
