At MakingLight, Valuethinker’s comment gives me goosebumps:
There is great excitement in Kenya tonight, one reads.
A son of Kenya, of Africa, whose father was born within a few hundred miles of Olduvai Gorge, where Lucy, the first human walked. 3 million years later, a son of Africa is again walking with footprints that will change the world.
In this time of darkness, a son of Africa is going to be President of the world’s most powerful country. One almost dares not say it, for fear that some curse will take it away. This is like the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
It has been a long wait, but tomorrow will be a truly great day. There is much peril and many disappointments to come, but this cannot be taken away from us.
Ndio tunaweza. In Swahili ‘Yes we can’.
Ndio tunaweza, America.
Ndio tunaweza.
We’ll be prayin’ for ya’.
And we for you, Sister Kenya.
I’m emotionally drained and this just did me in. I read it just as Barack Obama has been proclaimed the next president of the United States of America.
Amen.
And just saw Jessie Jackson in Chicago, in the midst of the huge crowd, in tears.
Amen
Amen!
What a classy speech from McCain. Too bad he couldn’t have been that classy during the campaign. I voted my conscience today–certainly not my pocketbook–and I am proud of that. I voted for children and grandchildren that I neither have nor will ever have. I voted for an end to the Bush Doctrine and pre-emptive wars. I hope I voted in a way that ensures no mandatory draft for military service for those unborn children I spoke of. In short, I hope I voted for a better America, while knowing that it would not be in my own personal financial interest. God save this Country and guide Kay Hagan in her brand new job as the newly-elected (and decidely non-Godless) Senator from North Carolina!
Lotus, NMC, where art thou?