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Finally, on the eve of the Mayan Sixth Day, the game of light and dark has changed… and it’s about time. He makes his mark on the game of peace and for most elicits great hope in playing.
Black and white united in peace, in the person of one man. There is much to say, much to share, so let this chapter of the game begin!
[youtube:3185bsit]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vws9fTtQgz4[/youtube:3185bsit]
(Neiru, here’s to your feet, and for all the blue paint you spread in NM!)
reference is to Kal-el, last son of the planet Krypton, sent to Earth by his father, Jor-el:
[youtube:1v0c0688]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6fjVpAyM8[/youtube:1v0c0688]Well, what can I say? I’ve worked hard for this. Many, many, many people did. I’ve seen unknown candidates climb ahead of household names because everyday people were passionate enough to reach voters at home, make phone calls, attend protests and rallies believing things have to change. Yes we can, and yes we did! I can speak for New Mexico and say we’ve knocked on over 160,000 doors and personally talk to thousands of voters to promote Obama and our Congressional candidates. Thanks to these grassroot efforts New Mexico, which voted for Bush in 2004, went solid blue. Every single national candidate we put into office this year was Democratic (all 5 of them). In Albuquerque, we elected the first Democratic candidate in all 40 years of its existence. This was a huge surprise to me, since when I started canvassing nobody I talked to ever heard of Martin Heinrich and everybody loved Republican Darren White. It’s amazing to see how much of an impact ordinary citizens have on this country. This election truly proves that democracy in the United States is not dead.
I was at the Albuquerque Convention Center on election night, where the Democratic party was held. There were so many people that the fire department couldn’t let any more in. This was still dwarfed by the 45,000 who showed up to the Obama rally on Oct. 25th. The line to get into that thing was astronomical. I had to bring up Google maps to show my friends how long it was! Anyway… at Convention Center… when the Presidency was announced.. it was probably the loudest cheering I have ever heard. Many of my coworkers were there, and one of them (a Southern Baptist) broke out into blissful hysterics repeating “praise Jesus!” and other prayers for at least a half hour straight. She’s 72 years old, barely a generation after slavery, so I can only imagine what this must mean to her. I wanted to come hug her but she was swiftly swarmed by camera crews. I waited till they were gone and then came up, but we were swarmed again. XD
So here’s some news photos of us. I’m all the way on the left in blue jacket:
And then hugging on the bottom.
I need to find more pictures of me/us there, but all the newspapers are sold out. 😛She was crying, I was crying. And just being in that room, swallowed by her aura and the ecstatic energy of the crowd, was probably some of the purest, most unrestrained happiness I have ever felt. ;_;
I also have pictures of me hugging Martin Heinrich (our new Congressman that I helped elect), but they’re on another co-worker’s camera and she hasn’t e-mailed me them yet. But, aside from being a great guy with even better policies, may I just say he’s smoking hot!!
Anyway, I think this is a great video to summarize it all:
[youtube:172d96xh]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnsgq8FrI2c[/youtube:172d96xh]Great vid, Neiru. How are your feet? Glowing like the rest of you, er, us all?
Heh heh, I wore a shirt with “hope” on it to the polls…Tom Brokaw called him a “planetary leader”.
Watching this video, I thought, “Those ships oughta be showing up any time now…”
Please pass the popcorn
@opalescent wrote:
How are your feet? Glowing like the rest of you, er, us all?
My feet are a lot better. The power of Obama has healed me!! 😆
I don’t know what the Obama Presidency will bring, I don’t know how many of his promises he’ll be able to keep, but he has already kept one… He has promised us Hope, and he delivered beyond expectation. Hope for the USA, hope for the world.
Random funny toon:
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