YES--WE--CAN!!!
I want to cry. With happiness.
To watch Obama win, to know my vote counted, to see him speak at Grant Park, in Chicago, a place where I spent many crazed nights of my youth watching bands play and movies sing with me, to see a wash of Chicagoans, Americans, from Oprah Winfrey to tired-eyed University of Chicago students to moms with kids to little old men, to hear that my country is changing for the better. Even though I'm six hours away, I'm still in Illinois, and I've never been so proud to be from here before. To see that my president, my neighbor from Hyde Park, will work with us and for us, and to see the massive roar of people stretching from the lake to the Field Museum, gives me such an incredible, strong feeling of patriotism and hope that I'm bursting with happiness as I watch this from a computer, knitting a sweater while my room mate grumpily searches for his shoes.
I have never been so proud to be from Chicago, from Illinois, and from the United States of America. We're going to change, and for the better. It's time for a new era; no more mediocre performances from our leaders, no more religion in government, no more taking away of rights, no more questions, no more hatred of Americans while we go abroad. It's time for change.
Say it loud, say it proud: YES WE CAN!
To watch Obama win, to know my vote counted, to see him speak at Grant Park, in Chicago, a place where I spent many crazed nights of my youth watching bands play and movies sing with me, to see a wash of Chicagoans, Americans, from Oprah Winfrey to tired-eyed University of Chicago students to moms with kids to little old men, to hear that my country is changing for the better. Even though I'm six hours away, I'm still in Illinois, and I've never been so proud to be from here before. To see that my president, my neighbor from Hyde Park, will work with us and for us, and to see the massive roar of people stretching from the lake to the Field Museum, gives me such an incredible, strong feeling of patriotism and hope that I'm bursting with happiness as I watch this from a computer, knitting a sweater while my room mate grumpily searches for his shoes.
I have never been so proud to be from Chicago, from Illinois, and from the United States of America. We're going to change, and for the better. It's time for a new era; no more mediocre performances from our leaders, no more religion in government, no more taking away of rights, no more questions, no more hatred of Americans while we go abroad. It's time for change.
Say it loud, say it proud: YES WE CAN!