Comments on: Election Day

By: J.E.

J.E. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:54:12 +0000

Today I went to the LBJ library across the street from where I work and viewed the pens he used to sign his “Great Society” programs into law. Among these was of course the Voting Rights act of 1965.

Like you Shotts, my long lost patriotism has come surging back in a way that I haven’t felt since I was a child. Not because there will be a Democrat in office but because this Democrat, Barack Hussein Obama II, will be in office.

By: Shotts

Shotts — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:33:23 +0000

It is such an act of hope. Beckett may have been born in the Bush presidency, but he will be raised in the Obama presidency. I believe that will set a tone, a positive one, for his life. It was really moving to vote as a parent as much or more as anything else. Today I think it can feel good again to say you’re an American.

By: Ned

Ned — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:43:24 +0000

I woke Eliot up today so that at some point in his life, he can look back and say, “I rememeber when my dad woke me up and said we have our first African-American president, Barak Obama.”

Interesting that you quote Whitman.

In 2009, the country will mark the 150th birthday of another Illinois politician’s Inaugural address. A man that came to office when our country was falling apart over the issue of industrialization and slavery.

That’s history meaning something.