Tuesday, November 04, 2008

I was totally for John McCain. How can I not? He's a war hero from my home state with the same moral standards I have (throw in a little Bipolar - he was HOT when he was young!!). Even though he is a Republican like our current president, I believed, and still do, that he could make positive changes. Last night I was finally able to find some non-biased comparisons between him and Obama (and it wasn't easy, thank God I got rid of the dial-up), I thought, even though I might not like all of the changes Obama could make, I think he can definitely make positive changes. Although there are almost no Republican bloggers, at least amongst my blog-friends, I will admit that I did vote for McCain to ease my Republican conscience (knowing that Democrats always take Illinois anyway so it really didn't matter).

Switching back and forth between every news channel I could find (on the second most basic cable, no dish, too poor here), the difference between the cable news and the local news is unbelievable. I loved McCain's concession speech, how stupid to believe a politician, but I think he really meant the things he said. You could really feel the hope and elation from the Chicago news reporters, particularly Fox. They actually played the speeches without interruption with stats and opinions. The reporters were so giddy they could hardly speak. I know that sounds biased, but come on, ALL of the news channels wanted Obama to win.

No Republican could have won this race after Bush. I don't even think Christ himself, reincarnated as a Republican, could have won. Our country is poor, broken, and fighting. Maybe people don't realize how desperate we've become as a nation in the past decade, 9-11, bankruptcies and foreclosures, unemployment, war. Yet I'm still surprised that it was enough to stop the asinine bigotry from allowing a black man to become president. I don't live in the projects, but I've always lived in the worst neighborhoods in whatever town I was in. Being half & half, I see prejudice from the white side and from the hispanic side. I've known horrible people of every color. But with our nation's history, I'm just dumbfounded that we have a black president - in a good way. I watched the ballot counts come in with the piglets, trying to explain how historic this night would be. I thought I would be old and gray before a black man or ANY color woman made it to office. I couldn't believe that I haven't heard bitching about choosing between a black man and a woman - I know 20-10-5 years ago we would have. How does this change the prejudices in our society? Or have we all just joined together against a different race to hate after 9-11? I feel sorry for Obama - he has one mountain of crap to change, even with all parties agreeing. I just hope that everyone remembers how high that mountain is when he starts & doesn't point fingers when it doesn't shrink as fast as they want it to. Even with the best ideas, it's going to take a lot of work to fix this mess.

My smart-ass side has been wanting to ask ANYONE this question, that's why I got on here...

Was Jesse Jackson crying because a black man was voted president or because it wasn't him?

Sorry, I just don't like him.