A Week of Obama: Slice of Life Tuesdays November 11, 2008
Posted by blk1 on November 11, 2008
Thanks for sharing this comic, Stacey.
Just one week ago I was walking around this apartment, stopping by the kitchen for something, anything to munch on, to feed my fears. We were down to last hours of a very long campaign. I began at one place hoping for Al Gore to try again, but finally moved to Hillary, half heartedly, and finally found my way to Obama and then I had the time to get to know him as he made his way to the nomination and finally to the last day as a candidate.
At 6:00 PM we turned on CNN and ate great Chinese food in front of the TV and I stayed rooted. I was planning to wait for victory before I had a drink but I needed something to be calmer, and I was a bit calmer.
Slowly the polls closed gradually and I clicked from CNN to PBC, toNBC to CNBC, to CBS, to ABC and yes, even to FOX and back to CNN again and the cycle continued and the time passed slowly. Tuvia, by 9 needed a change of scenery. He had two options: a gathering with the Grassroots Dems for Obama or the traditional celebration on Rt. 303 with Rockland County Democrats. Now my choice with have been the Hippie Grassrooters, but Tuvia preferred the Rockland traditionals. I was happy to just stay home and keep clicking back and forth, so I gave in to Tuvia.
We arrived at the gathering and entered to quiet. People were just beginning to gather. TV’s were running in the main room with refreshments around the sides. We sat down near the front but couldn’t hear the TV’s. So we were sitting together with no information. We arrived too early. Finally Tuvia agreed to leave. Without the grassroots address, we returned home. I slipped back into my pj’s grabbed the remote and returned to my clicking. Now the map was fuller. Lots of blue on the map, some red too but we were making progress. I was breathing better now.
After two arduous, depressing evenings with W., I was prepared for a longer wait but by 11:01 NBC casually, without fanfare plastered a slide across the TV screen: BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.
I danced, Tuvia grinned and together we moved into the bedroom to share the last two speeches: first McCain and then Barack in Grant Park, Chicago.
It was an evening that I want to hold with me. The next morning I returned to a hippie shop in Nyack for a new Obama button. I found a perfect one with a photo of Obama and just the word HOPE and that’s what I hold close to me, HOPE, that’s all and that’s enough for now.
Bonnie
November 13th, 2008 at 1:59 am
It’s hard to believe it’s only a week … I went through such a range of exhausting emotion on Tuesday (to say nothing of all the spontaneous dancing, crying, laughing, crowing since then!).
My Spanish teacher asked tonight if I thought ‘things’ would change now that Obama has been elected. He’s in Guatemala, and he watched this election with almost the same anxious anticipation that I had. He was so afraid we would put another GWB into office. I told him we’d both have to watch and see, but that I felt certain things could only take a turn for the better after the last eight years of truly frightening leadership. My main worry now is that people will expect some crazily-impossible, instantaneous change and then will condemn MMNP (Mr. My Next President, of course!
) when the change doesn’t come fast enough. Still holding my breath …
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November 13th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I can’t speak for anyone else but I am a believer. I have no out of control expectations but I believe that he is on my wave length and I like everything I’ve been hearing about him and his advisers and how he was in charge and set a tone I am impressed with.
So far I haven’t been disappointed.
I’m on your page Stacie,
How about meeting for a cup of coffee one of these days?
Bonnie
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I love that image of you doing the Obama Happy Dance, Bonnie. And I know you worked hard and were thoughtful in this election, too. Thankfully, it turned out the way you and I both wanted. Now, he has to rise to the moment.
Kevin
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October 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 am
its very nice projectred.
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