After over a year and a half of watching and waiting, we are now down to the Final Four. In two months we will either have a Black man as president or a woman as vice president. Either way, it will be a new way of doing business. For my generation, although we came too close with Geraldine Ferraro - not sure I expected to see this before my Social Security years. For DD's generation, it will become common place in the next few elections. For my gkids, it will be life as usual - nothing to write home about.
Two months, hard to believe that it all comes down to 60 some days. Last Thursday, I couldn't have imagined Sarah Palin - now she is all you hear about. Her family's private life plastered on every news show but that is the price you pay if you want to run with the Big Dogs. Tomorrow night after John McCain does his Big Speech, it will be hours and hours of watching each team shaking hands and kissing babies in every city imaginable...but it is only for two months.
If the election were held today - who would you vote for? A 10 page post on a digi board that I keep up with came up with unremarkable results. While most of it was semi-polite discussion, the actual vote count was 29/Obama and 27/McCann. There were 2 posts that really stood out - because of VP choices, two ladies from each political party were going to cross party lines and vote against their party. That tells me that tensions and emotions are running deep.
Whatever the outcome, for the most part, our lives will go on. God help us if they start campaigning January 21, 2009 after the last musician has left the Inauguration Ball. This is history being made and however you vote, you will be able to tell your children, grandchildren and ggrandchildren about this time in our country's history.
I am going to relish each moment of the next 2 months. While I have a general distrust of all things organized, this is proof that we live in the greatest country in the world, faults and all, I love the USA...
