Though ten days have elapsed since Barack Obama won the 2008 landslide Presidential Election, with a little help from formerly and so-called Confederate strongholds such as Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana, the Republican leadership and its members, especially in Texas, continue to reel in total disbelief, shock and denial.
How did this happen!?
But, but, but, I thought we had created a Permanent Republican Majority! Our fearless leader and former Hammer Tom Delay and Spin Master in Chief Karl Rove promised! Our very own W. said he had a mandate when he won by a handful of votes in 2004. What on earth happened!?
The GOP has apparently been asleep while the twenty-first century made its debut along with its cutting edge technology, and a 24/7 information cycle that can be rather unforgiving. In other words, it is far more difficult for liars to lie to and mislead voters nowadays, despite all of the GOPs highly paid masters of spin and hate talk radio hosts.
The voting electorate obviously appreciates the raw reality of the Bush Administration, its Republican rubber stamps and what all of the above have visited upon the people. Bush Republicans drove the economy straight into the sewer. The Republican Party has siphoned off the national treasury. It has likewise stolen our 401K plans, homes and jobs.
The people have spoken. We have fired most of the bums, but alas, in Texas there is more than a bum or two who are in dire need of tossing in 2010.
Thanks to his brilliant grassroots efforts, his exhaustive and skillful community organization talents, President Elect Barack Obama has pulled off a landslide Election. Through his exhaustive campaign in which he elicited the support of thousands of volunteers, his extraordinary discipline, his tireless, never ending hard work, the severe lack of sleep, the sacrifice of his personal and family life, and despite the attacks and the attacks and the attacks and the misinformation and the misinformation and the blatant media bias, the bias, the bias, and the appalling regional ignorance, the ignorance, the ignorance, and the hate talk, the hate talk, the hate talk, somehow, despite all of the symbolic and vociferous right wing smearing and screaming, finally the majority of Americans heard through the deafening clamor and voted for truth, hope, change and a return to normality.
The president-elect won overwhelmingly among blacks, Hispanics and voters under the age of 30. He made inroads among important swing groups, including Catholics, suburbanites, political independents, even veterans. He won in the Midwest, where Mr. Kerry had lost. He even made small gains among groups that typically have been solidly Republican - whites, conservatives, Southerners, regular churchgoers.
And, according to the The Politico, the most affluent voters were key to Obama's win.
Thankfully, for the entire planet, the last eight years of the Republican Dark Ages and Reign of Financial Terror have crashed and burned, hopefully forever.
I do not possess either the time or poetic writing skills to properly express how I felt on Tuesday night when Senator Barack Obama won the Election. I can tell you that I cried. I screamed. I shared a champagne toast with friends. I called my son in Roanoke, VA but I could not hear him because he and other Obama supporters, staff workers and volunteers were screaming "We DID it!" "Oh God, we DID it!" After yelling "we are proud of you" into the mayhem of the moment in Roanoke, I hung up.
My husband and I fist bumped. We danced. We hugged and cried together. Next thing I know, hubby, a naturalized American citizen, wrapped himself in the huge American flag that we normally display outside the house on Memorial Day and July 4th. He ran next door to the TV lobby in the College Commons where his students were either celebrating or staring at the screen in disbelief. My husband cried: "America I love you! We did it!" All of the students went wild with cheers. I could hear the pandemonium inside the house.
