DESPITE the treasonous and degenerate republican efforts to stop us.. DESPITE the RACISTS (whether they care to admit it or not)... DESPITE them ALL, we WILL PREVAIL.
Deb and I (lovers, partners) sent this out on election day 2008.. and we STILL feel that we can... we MUST make sure that our dreams of that day become a reality.
NOBODY.. not the Bachmanns.. not the Rick Perry's.. not the Walkers nor the Snyders nor the Kacishes.. not the Cantors nor the Palins nor the Santorums.. not the Boehnors nor the McConnells.. the Limbaughs or the Becks or the Savages... NONE of these traitors will stop us.
EVER.
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What a DAY!!!
Deb & I were Election Officials again... & NOTHING
could prepare us for what we had experienced.... we're
still exhausted...still in delirious disbelief.
When we arrived at the polling place that we were assigned
to at 6:00 AM in the RAIN (as you know it never rains in
Southern California... it POURS) there was already a crowd
of people... young, not-so-young, working class,
well-to-do... African Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican
Americans, ... hell, just AMERICANS... some with umbrellas
& some with beach chairs... ALL lined up around the
block... ready to be part of history.
..& that's what it was.
We'd NEVER seen such an outpouring of camaraderie... of
PURPOSE as we have seen yesterday... all day long. People
waiting patiently to be a TRUE part of the REAL AMERICA..
not the one that demagogues like Sarah Palin use to DIVIDE..
but the kind that finds a common goal... a singular LOVE for
our country.... the kind that inspires a prodigious sense of
DUTY.
It was a glimpse of something that we both had thought was
gone forever... solemnly resurrected in a small gymnasium in
Pasadena.
Families that made sure that their children we there so the
might actively participate in the most historic moment in
Presidential politics since LINCOLN.... a 92 year old, near
blind Armenian man who was there ONLY to vote for "Mr.
Barak" .... & then there were the FIRST time
voters... the high school seniors & the college
students, the newly sworn-in citizens from everywhere one
could imagine, the "complacent youth vote" that
everyone was worried about not showing up... all there en
masse. Some on skateboards, some in wheelchairs. Some in
suits & some in overalls, nurses still in their
scrubs.... cops in their uniforms & school children in
theirs.
America.
We ended up processing an average of almost TWO voters PER
MINUTE... ALL DAY..... hell, we almost ran out of ballots...
& when it came tine to empty the bulging ballot box
& we started to sort them out... we couldn't help
but notice that SAME pattern of little ink-dots...
"Obama", "Obama", "Obama",
"Obama", "Obama"........
We ended the day at 10:00PM both giddy & exhausted....
celebratory & solemn...
WE were a small part of it... as were ALL of the MILLIONS
who defied the odds & came out to reassure the entire
world that America has.. AT LONG LAST, grown up... &
that we are finally ready to join them once again as an
EXAMPLE of what humanity CAN be at it's BEST.
We've NEVER been to proud!
Sandy & Deb.