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Nov. 5th, 2008 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistersmearcaseI know this is incredibly corny but it was maybe the most exciting night of my life. I erased that to say "one of the" but unerased. Whatever, it was or it wasn't. It was extremely beautiful to be in New York. People were screaming in the streets in midtown, and when I got off the subway some gal and I quietly said "yay!" to each other. Before I got on, I heard a black guy shouting on his cell phone as he ran west on 44th, "WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT!"
Fine, he'll disappoint us. No, racism isn't over. I don't think anyone thought that. But jesus, guys. This was a close call between certain horror and something that might be much, much better. And meaningless as it is, I am so, so relieved that we're going to be seeing Michelle Obama instead of Cindy McCain for the next four years. I like that she wore a dress that didn't really work.
Obama's speech was pretty great. People were crying in the bar I was in. They were actors, so what do you expect, but if I were a less inhibited person I'd have cried, too. When they finally called it for Obama I screamed and violently hugged the people I was with, even though it was over when they called Ohio. Hey even McCain's speech was good, gracious. Flannery O'Connor might say: he'd have been a good candidate if there'd been someone there to defeat him every moment of his life. Ok, Flannery O'Connor would not say that.
I probably need a klonopin.
Fine, he'll disappoint us. No, racism isn't over. I don't think anyone thought that. But jesus, guys. This was a close call between certain horror and something that might be much, much better. And meaningless as it is, I am so, so relieved that we're going to be seeing Michelle Obama instead of Cindy McCain for the next four years. I like that she wore a dress that didn't really work.
Obama's speech was pretty great. People were crying in the bar I was in. They were actors, so what do you expect, but if I were a less inhibited person I'd have cried, too. When they finally called it for Obama I screamed and violently hugged the people I was with, even though it was over when they called Ohio. Hey even McCain's speech was good, gracious. Flannery O'Connor might say: he'd have been a good candidate if there'd been someone there to defeat him every moment of his life. Ok, Flannery O'Connor would not say that.
I probably need a klonopin.
