You do realize that we didn't just win an election last night

[walldude]

We changed the course of human history. All the damn whining, all the trolls, all the bitching in the world couldn't bring me down today. Sure we didn't solve any problems last night, the economy still sucks, Prop 8 fucked us, Rahm is still a dick and now in a position of power and there are still soldiers in Iraq and people who want to kill us. But today, unlike yesterday, there is hope. The whole world is behind us. They have been waiting for us to lead the charge into the 21st century and yesterday we gave them, and ourselves the opportunity to make a radical shift from division to unity. A shift from poisoning our future and our planet to building trust and hope among it's inhabitants, a chance to find common ground between warring factions, a chance to build a future where our kids don't have to worry about things like bunker busters and terrorist attacks. You know hope and change weren't just words or a campaign slogan they were achievable goals set before us. We have achieved hope, now it's time for change.

[liberalmuse]

1. We made the right decision.

We stared at the abyss, and gave it the bird. I wrote this over a week ago, just to express what I had been feeling. Again, I SUCK as a writer, but this is how I was feeling until this week, when I somehow knew we would win:

When I think about the unthinkable, a fear so paralyzing grips me that I can hardly breathe. Agony so deep that it sticks in my chest, trying to form a gutteral scream that would aptly express 8 years...8 universes full of pent up rage and hurt.

That is when I see myself as a refugee without a country, having to protest the darkening, oppressive pestilence of a ill-gotten McCain "win" until some fucking Cheetoh-eating armchair fascist brings me down with a single gun shot. I can't even type the words so horrific, but even a hint of them hovering there in the peripheral of 'what could be' sends me plunging to the depths of despair. My life would be over. Done. Kaput. The person I was, am or ever had hoped to be would be destroyed with a single shattering, wicked pronouncement.

Torture. Pre-emptive war. Old, white man bluster, crippled with hate, rattling the saber, more reminiscent of a limp dick on Viagra than a brave warrior. Lies. Deceit. More of the fucking same.

But then there is Hope. There is Hope, and I will not let go, because Hope is where I am safe from the nightmares taunting me, begging me to make them reality. NO! Hope. That is where I will firmly stand. HOPE.

President Barack Hussein Obama.

[chimpymustgo]

2. I felt like we had been liberated from a brutal occupation or won a war for the survival of mankind

[SunsetDreams]

3. Beautifully stated, K&R walldude :)