This is for everyone who said we couldn’t rock the youth vote…
This is a referendum on the poor choices that 51% of the electorate made in 2004…
It’s a real mandate for change, instead of a Supreme Court-delivered sham victory grotesquely twisted to allow a group of diabolical men to wreak havoc on the United States under the guise of a “mandate from the voters”…
It’s my generation standing up and saying, We’ve done this your way for 40 years. It’s not working. It’s our turn.
This is about realizing that it’s Christian to stop worldwide hunger, pollution, rape, and needless death at least as much as it is to blindly prohibit abortion.
This is me saying I didn’t just vote Obama for selfish reasons — I did it for my mom, and for my grandmother, because I believe he is the right choice for young and for old, for Americans.
It’s my answer to four years of asking, America, do we misunderstand each other so fatally?
This is me having my Michelle Obama “proud” moment. Not just feeling patriotic about living in a country where civil liberties most people only dream of are guaranteed; the pride that must have been felt by greater generations when they realized their achievements were more than the sum of their parts.
This is about the right to belief being contingent upon upholding the Constitution that protects it.
This is the first day of the end of Republican anti-intellectualism. This is the rejection of Karl Rove’s tactics. This is the moment when attitudes of individuals around the nation will start to shift as they learn that the quality of a person’s mind is more nuanced than the color of his skin.
This is not going to fix everything, but it’s a start.
