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( A Thank You For Supporters )

Some of you may not want to read this, desiring to remain positive now that the campaign is over. I respect that and I am putting it under a cut tag, but my concern is that some of us need to know exactly how close we came to putting someone so extremely unqualified and unsuitable one heartbeat away from the Presidency, and how very lucky we ALL ( Read more... )

I haven't shared too much about my husband here on LJ. But since this is such a significant moment -- somewhere up there with landing on the moon and the Berlin Wall coming down -- I think that I will share just a bit.

My husband immigrated to the U.S. 40 years ago. He had to work to become a citizen. And for him, it was an honor and a true ( Read more... )

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YEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!!!!!

*pops the cork*

LET THE WORLDWIDE PARTY BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!!

OK. The champagne is chilled.

I have decided to chill the glasses now.

*smiles tentatively*

Good lord. MSNBC just called Pennsylvania for OBAMA!!!!!

And New Hampshire.

But I will not believe until a higher percentage of votes are in.

I will not believe until MUCH later tonight.

I cannot take that kind of disappointment again.

Hope is a fragile fragile thing.

This one is the one that made me believe it was possible.

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I took my mom in her wheelchair to vote this morning. There were hardly any lines at all. Only one person in front of me and two in front of her, although the poll workers were NOT helpful in getting mom up to her spot in line, since I had to stand in a different line. I kept running ( Read more... )