I made this posting on my blog not minutes ago. I wrote this after thinking about it on the way home from work tonight (it's 10PM here in Japan): this is the moment I have spent the last two years hoping for.
Obama said that we came into this with not much support and not much money. All we had was a hope that our cause would win out in the end. It did. Mainly because we persuaded the most people, but also because those of us who were there from the beginning, knew from the beginning that our future was ours to take if we wanted it badly enough, if we were willing to take the hits and suffer the indignities everyone else threw at us.
If you were there from the start, feel welcome to comment (all, of course, are welcome, but let's take a moment to recognize everyone who started believing from that very first speech in Springfield, Illinois).
I supported Barack Obama from the beginning.
I was there for the highs and the lows. And then the really lows. And then the really, really lows.
I doubted him. I understood why the left could have found reason to abandon him. In fact, I had thought the Republicans had cornered us again, of all elections.
But I always stood by Barack Obama. I defended him against other Democrats. I defended him against Republicans. I defended the cause he was creating from the ground up.
So I was there for the highs. And then the really highs. And then the really, really highs.
And then the biggest high of this election, nearly two years in the making.
Don't get me wrong, I love bandwagoners. Even the ones that came on the wagon after the election.
But this is for everyone who was there from the beginning. Everyone who went wire-to-wire with Barack Obama.
Today is our day.