Obama

Barack Obama & his Mom, who would guess he would become the 44th US President this coming January?

Yesterday night 9:34 PM was a moment of elation when I realized Barack won the election, zooming past the required 270 electoral colleges. A historic moment, a watershed event, everything has been said in the news media, there is no sense to repeat them here.

Personally, it was deep satisfaction but "with malice toward none", to quote Abe Lincoln, my other favorite president. John McCain served the country well, he will have his place in history.

To be able to witness this historic moment in American history is already a great blessing. The first decade of the 21st century hasn't ended, yet it is already filled with notable events, 9/11, 2 wars, a stock market crash rivalling 1929, now the 1st African American President of the US. The decade may turn out to be as tumultuous as the 60s' of the 20th.

Don't know why, but Ed McCurdy's lines keep buzzing in my head:

Last night I had the strangest dream
I'd ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war

I dreamed I saw a mighty room
Filled with women and men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again

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Simon & Garfunkel and Joan Baez humming the tune in the background.

Tribute to the courage of the civil right movement and to all progressive people in the world.