YES WE CAN!!!!!

can i get a FUCK YEAH!!!!!

CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!!!!!!

can i get a w00t w00t for the next PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!

i am so excited, i can barely sit still.  the nation has spoken.

SUCK IT NEIGHBORS who egged my house for my signs.  SUCK IT county that i live in who supported mcsame.  SUCK IT to all of those who would try to smear his name with lies and meanness while avoiding the great failings of your own party.  my nation has spoken and it is chanting YES WE CAN!

i admit, i was pretty hopeful yesterday.  with an air of caution i thought, “there is really no way he can lose.”  well, i thought that after about 3:30 when i FINALLY finished the stupid take home essay for art history. (yeah, it was due at 3:30 yesterday)  anyway, i did think it.  and then the voice of pessimism started to creep in and said “remember 2000?  SUCK IT voice of pessimism.

i’m actually a little glad that i ended up having to finish my art history paper at school.  it meant i needed my laptop which i was all prepared to leave at home because the signal i get in printmaking is so weak this semester.  (any one have any idea why my airport thingy in my mac would suddenly lose strength?)  because i had my laptop i was able to check msnbc for election results.  i’m also glad that i was with a few friends when the results came in.  i kept all of those in the art department up to speed and i think they appreciated it.  the funny thing was that my professor assumed i wasn’t going to show so i could go home and watch the results.

i left school at around 8:45 and got in the car and on the road just in time to hear the speech.

and then i cried.

and the thing that keeps choking me up is the knowledge that my son is going to grow up knowing anything is possible.

i have always had hope that i would see a demographic other than an old, white man as president.  i thought i would be an old woman.  i did not think that it would happen in my 30’s.  i am so proud to see the progress that has happened in this country.

and disappointed that while we are showing progress in one direction, we are showing regression in another.  preliminary tallies are showing prop 8 as winning.  how can we as a people JUSTIFY taking away RIGHTS from one specific group of people?  it angers and disgusts me.  oops.  prop 8 passed.  sickening!!!!

but i’m so happy about Obama that i can’t get too mad (today) about prop 8.  i will save the H8 for later.

so, i hope that America has sent the message to the rest of the world that we are not defined by the last 8 years of crap in the white house.  we are better than that, and we intend to show you, world, that we will once again stand beside you, as equals, with a president that is in tune with the problems facing this world and this planet.

yes we can!!