When Will We Experience This?

When will we get to celebrate in joy into the wee hours of the night?  When will we get to riot in the streets and flip over cars?

Ever?

John Mayer - “Hope Is Not A Buzz Word”

I said I wasn’t going to try to influence people about the election, but I felt that this was too good to not post.  My favorite musician puts into words what an entire generation of people have been trying to say.  John Mayer writes:

I was 23 years old when the nation was attacked on September 11, 2001. I can remember hearing pundits say “this changes everything” and “things will never be the same.” Obviously it was a tragic and traumatic event, but that sentiment has carried on through the better part of my twenties. If you were 43 years old on that day, I would imagine it was a difficult concept to get your head around as well, Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, John Mayer, President Barack Obama

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Kanye West - Golddigger (Beethoven Remix)

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2 Weeks

2 weeks from today (or really 13 days), we will know who the next President will be.  Regardless of how you feel about President Bush and the current administration, you have to admit this will be an exciting and important time for the country.  I can’t help but think about how I will tell my children and grandchildren about this election.  There is a good chance this country will have it’s first black President in Barack Obama.  A small part of me wants to vote or him for that reason alone.  The fact that 40 years ago this would not have been possible is astounding to me.  We’ve come along way in that time.

It seems like yesterday that I watched Barack Obama give his acceptance speech for the US Senate in November of 2004.  I remember my Dad saying “this guy’s got it”.  Admittedly, I hadn’t heard of Barack Obama before that election, but he seemed to have the national news pundits excited.  Being in Chicago, his winning got more attention than other parts of the country, but it still seemed more than normal.  This surprised me, given that he was just now a junior senator.  Apparantly, they knew he would be on the fast track to bigger things.  I had the priveledge of seeing Obama speak at my high school in the spring of 2006.  He seemed to handle himself very well.  Two and a half years later, he is days away from being elected President.

These next 2 weeks, and election day in particular, should be wild and historic.  Four years from now, we will be asking ourselves, “Are we better off now than we were four years ago?”.  As any time period passes, I hope we can always say “yes” to that question.  We’ll see.

MC Yogi - Vote For Hope

Not trying to influence any one, but I thought this video was very cool.