I’m having such a surreal moment watching the political results crawl in, hearing about ballot shortages, and extended poll hours. Holding out hope. This is huge. But, as with many groundbreaking things, "huge" gets muted by all the day to day bustle… sick kid, broken car, fuzzy head… until you’re sitting in front of the tube in stinky sweats, watching potential history unfold and realize you’re a part of it.
I don’t talk about politics much for a lot of reasons. Mainly that I both have strong convictions and I am disenchanted. And that Keen and I (and our families) are on opposite political spectrums*. And because I have met some true, carreer politicos and… well… some of them are really really slimy (like, I was a little shocked, and I have been a fucking cynic from day one). And, last but not least, I don’t usually talk politics because many people who do get bogged down into minutia that I consider to be big fucking roadblocks to getting anything actually done.
(I am a problem-solver, see, and counter to what anyone will tell you that doesn’t work well with the political machine.)
Anyway, I’m still caught up in the day-to-day fuzzies and there is no way I can stay up to watch how this plays out. But I wish I could. I wish excitement would beat down the fuzzies. I wish I could feel like this is really history in the making… instead of the potential for history.
Because until we actually elect someone other than a white male to the presidency I really won’t feel like it’s happened.
But I’m holding out hope. – the weirdgirl
* Though, strangely, Keen and I have very similar viewpoints on several issues. One of which is the opinion that America is completely backward for not having elected a woman or person of color yet. I mean, what year is this?
I freely admit I have NO IDEA how this system of electing a presidential nominee works… we don’t do that in Canada. And it’s been slow news days up here since Christmas so we’re getting extensive coverage of the primaries.
I’m totally baffled by it all. But fascinated, too. I read somewhere that Rudy Guiliani spent $50 million just campaigning in Florida. All of our major political parties combined don’t spend that much during a federal election. It’s so strange to watch, from the outside.
We had storms and were over ran with those tickers that run along the bottom of the screen. We had the NBC ticker with National election news, the local news ticker with local elections, a radar map in the corner, a ticker at the top listing warnings, and this tiny little square where the show was supposed to be. And you couldn’t read any of it cause they were all competing for space
I agree. I can’t believe it’s taken this long to even have a female and black male and potential nominees. It’s 2007, not 1967.
I couldn’t care less what sex or race a political candidate is. And I don’t feel that anyone should. Would you want a female or black president who’s a communist or fascist? Of course not! Zig Ziglar writes: “Fair play seeks, not who is right, but what is right.” And women and blacks should seek the same thing.
Also, I take issue with the term, “person of color”. Everyone in the world is a person of color. In fact, we humans are all the same color–just different shades of it.