Hungover the Rainbow

Well, I am trying to come up with a blog for Thursday. But honestly I have an election hangover. The hangover is not from alcohol, it is from staying up too late watching history happen.

First, I felt emotional listening to John McCain concede the election to Barack Obama. I cried as he pledged to support and work with the new president elect. I especially loved McCain's acknowledgement of Obama's leadership bridging the long standing racial divide. We can all be proud of that, well at least more than half of us can.

Listening to Obama's acceptance speech gave me goose bumps and sent shivers up and down my spine. Not just because he's a Dem, or because he's the country's first African American president elect. No. Because his words were inspiring.

I feel like he is my President. A president for my generation. I get the same feeling listening to Obama now, as I did when I first heard visionary leader Martin Luther King Jr's. "I Have a Dream," speech. After Bush, Obama is a dream come true. A regular messiah. And he's ours, but don't worry world, we will share him. "Yes We Can." is the vision after King's dream.

It wasn't just the same old speech. It was inspiring. We can do it. "Yes we can." We can heal our differences. "Yes we can." He was inspiring and honest. He didn't say it was going to be easy. But he said if we work together we can do it. "Yes We Can"

The song below, "We've Come So Far," from the "Hairspray Soundtrack" basically says it all. "I know we've come so far, but we've got so far to go. I know the road seems long, but it won't be long till it's time to go."