What Wednesday in America can bring after election

If Senator Obama loses the election, (which does not seem possible at this point) he will return to the Senate with his head held up high. Obama has managed to inspire people to vote who have never voted before. He brought young people into politics in greater numbers than ever before. He ran a campaign that refused to get down into the mud, make outlandish claims and refused to yield to the temptation to get as ugly as the McCain campaign. Obama proved that experience is not as important as judgment. McCain had plenty of experience but it was the wrong kind of experience for a great number of people in this country. He gave people back hope. Obama will return to working for the average people in this country who have been forgotten. He will return to working for the veterans on the Veterans Affairs Committee. Not many know that he was advised to take a more high powered Committee position, but he wanted to take care of veterans who held his heart. Even one of my neighbors didn't know and she supported Obama.

If McCain loses, he returns to the Senate with a dark cloud hanging over his head. Not only did he run a campaign showing he cannot make up his mind on much at all, he ran one of anger, infusing hatred, supporting lies, bearing false witness against another Senator and allowing his followers to call Obama a traitor and terrorist. He will return to the Senate after insulting the women of this country with the selection of Sarah Palin and then lying about her history no matter what evidence came out afterward. McCain, who once enjoyed the respect of this nation as a former POW, used it to excuse everything he has done since. From the multitudes of houses he owns, to the multitudes of foreign cars he owns, to his $500 shoes, he has excused it all with having been a POW.

No matter what comes Wednesday, Obama has nothing to be ashamed of and everything to be proud of. He made this country return to hope, was greeted around the world as the restoration of the American ideals and will be forever loved by millions who gathered in record breaking numbers to hear him speak. McCain will forever be a comical joke played on the American people that isn't very funny at all. Had it not been for the Palin pick and the curiosity factor, not many would go to hear him speak at all but worse is that he didn't care he made the choice to hand this nation over to Sarah Palin instead of the truly deserving people in the Republican party.

Why Obama-McCain race deserves 'historic' label
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Sunday, November 2, 2008


Washington -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama often tells voters that the 2008 election is "a defining moment in history." Candidates usually think their particular race is historic, but in this case, it actually is.

Voters themselves feel they are standing at a watershed moment, whether Democrat, Republican or the dwindling conflicted few still undecided two days before the end of a two-year campaign. Half say they are scared of what might happen should the wrong man win.

The candidates themselves embody the moment: The 47-year-old Obama, on the brink of making history as the first African American president, urges voters to take the leap into the future. The 72-year-old Republican nominee, John McCain, warns that his rival is dangerously inexperienced and urges voters to stick with his record in times of peril.
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