what a night it's been. i've never felt such palpable excitement from so far away as i did tonight watching the hundreds of thousands of people in chicago. not to mention the thousands lining times square. it was truly something to behold.
another one of history's conundrums has revealed itself. it took having a bush to get an obama. looking back i think we will see just how inevitable it was that obama was the next president after bush. funny thing, that.
of course there is the age old question: does the great man make history or does history make the great man? dammit, that's probably not exactly how it goes. anyways, it just really stands out to me how it had to be this time for obama. as is usually the consensus, it is some combination of great timing combined with a penchant for greatness that produces a historical figure such as barrack obama.
i wish i could find it but i wrote a blog entry in 2005 where i hoped, if not predicted, obama would be president in 2008. it was on another site and i can't dig it up which sucks cause i have no way to verify this. i remember hearing his speech at the 2004 democratic convention and been pretty much blown away. he used to realize podcasts every couple weeks where he would just talk about why he voted a certain way on a bill, or about certain processes that went on in the senate. i was very refreshed by his thoughtfullness then and i am very excited about his leadership potential now.
i'm glad to be alive now and to have a clear recollection of what it was like when the first black president was elected.
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