A Million Different Thoughts Floating Around...

So...right now I feel like I've got a ton of different thoughts and issues just floatin around. Most of them have to do with the election of our new president. Watching the coverage of the election on Tuesday, it didn't take a genius to see that there was really no chance that John McCain was going to win, no matter how much I wanted to see him pull ahead. When Obama was declared the winner and the cameras panned the thousands and thousands of people in the streets of America, and I could see people breaking down in tears, I think I fully understood the historical magnitude of what had just taken place. I found my eyes filling with tears; tears of appreciation for the huge step for equality in America, as well as tears of defeat and dissapointment. I think that when Obama and his family move into the White House, our nation will have come full cirlce: an African American President and his family living in a building that was built by slave labor. Thats not to say that I still don't have major reservations about our president-elect, but I am truly hoping that I am wrong and that he will be the leader that this nation and the world need. I hope that this country can honestly come together, both Democrat and Republican, and work together to accomplish all that needs accomplishing. I hope that our do-nothing Congress will step up. There is a quote by John Adams, second President of these United States that I think sums Congress up:

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress"

This nation needs healing, and I am ready to put my faith in a man that I have not had faith in thus far. As John McCain said in his concession speech:

"I urge all Americans ... I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited. Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that. It is natural. It's natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again."