Victory is Ours!

I have been humming "Victory is ours.  Victory is ours.  Victory is ours today!" all morning.  I want to sing it at the top of my lungs, but IK is still asleep.  It was a late night for everyone last night.  I have two reasons to celebrate.  The obvious one is Obama, the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.  Woohoo!!!!  The second reason is that my son DK won his own bid for VP at his school today.  Woohoo!!!!!    

I have been up most of the night reading reactions, both from Democrats and Republicans, about the outcome of the election.  Yes, I actually read the National Review.   I stopped when I got to the article that equated allowing abortions to allowing slavery.  Huh? 

Overall, most people are congratulatory.  Obama overcame many obstacles and ran an excellent campaign.  Conservatives agree that the Republican party needs to regroup and devise a new agenda that appeals to the middle class.  What they need  is to start the difficult task of separating themselves from the religious fanatics that make up their current base.  I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's one of the main reasons you lost, folks.  The American people decided they do not want a right-wing evangelical that close to the presidency.  What part of separation of church and state do you not understand?  Some of you might think I feel this way because I am not religious.  Wrong.  I am a Catholic.  I believe in God.  I believe in Jesus (which by the way, wasn't Jesus also a community organizer?)  Maybe where we differ is that I believe in helping people not just in telling them how they should act based on my own personal beliefs.

But back to my literature review, the most disturbing part is that the majority of the opinion pieces I read on the National Review did not seem to blame Palin for their loss. How is the Repulican party supposed to regroup and appeal to the general public when they are tied at the hip to these right-wing evangelicals?  Not that we don't have our own left-left-lefties, but for a party to win it needs to appeal to the middle.  I'm sorry, but in America, the middle is not made up of conservative, evangelical Christians, guys.  Time to do your homework, Republicans, or you're going to be in the same boat in 2010 and 2012.  

Must wake up IK to go to Little Gym class...TTYL.

Don't Count Your Chickens

The vice-president speeches at my son's school this morning were anti-climactic.  I didn't even have time to set up the video camera to record DK's speech before he was done saying it.  Oh, well.  At least I got to take a picture of him giving it and he knows it was important to me because I actually showed up at assembly.  I have only been to assembly one time this year and that was for the first day of school.   I am blessed that my husband takes the kids to school with him every morning.  But today I was nervous and excited for DK and his speech so IK and I made the half-hour trek over to school.   It was actually very nice being there to watch assembly and now I'm wondering if I shouldn't help my hubby out on Mondays and take the kids in... Nah.  

Speaking of speeches reminds me of elections. We are actually thinking of getting a sitter and going to the Driskill tomorrow night to watch the election results with other Democrats.  We would love to host a party at our house but most of our friends have kids and would need to go home about the time that the results are starting to come in from the polls closing.  Bummer.  

Sometimes I get nervous that we are counting our chickens before they hatch.  Every where I look, I read some analysis of what went wrong with McCain's campaign.  Yes, selecting Palin probably made him go down in the polls eventually, but People... IT'S NOT OVER!   Anything can go wrong.  Today on NPR, they were saying that small town voters will have a big impact in some of the swing states.  That worries me a lot -- small towns are full of Republicans, right???Then they had a story about how long the lines are expected to be tomorrow and that might deter the younger voters who are overwhelmingly for Obama.  They interviewed a young man in a swing state who had been waiting in line for 3 hours to cast his early vote.  It was the first time he voted and he said he didn't mind waiting that long because he knew he was casting a historic vote.  I hope other young voters feel the same way he does.  

I am so glad the election is tomorrow.  I cannot go on like this.  I can feel the anxiety inside of me.  I hope with all my heart that Obama wins.  Can you imagine the celebrations that will ensue if he does win?  I will be the first to go out on the streets and light some candles and sing something.  Hallelujah!  The first Black man to be elected President!  The feeling of victory is starting to pump into my blood and it feels GOOD!   

But there I go again, counting chickens....I wish it were 10pm Tuesday night already....

TTYL.