The day after the election

Posting about our honeymoon has been slow due to Nick and I being very busy with work, condo stuff and also nursing colds that we acquired on our travels. But I did want to switch gears and talk about what America saw happen yesterday.

Whether or not you voted for Obama or McCain and whether or not you are happy with the outcome, Yesterday was an amazing day. For the first time in a long time, I felt passion, I felt people wanting to be involved with the voting process. I talked to people who have never voted in an election because they thought that their vote wouldn't matter, rushing to get to the polls. No matter the outcome, this is something that should make all of us American's proud.

Now, most of you know my thoughts on the current president and the President-Elect, but I heard Dave Ross say this on Kiro 710 this morning and, well, he gave me goosebumps as I was walking to work. He hit the nail right on the head, in my opinion.

I want to share this with all of you. You don't have to agree. That is what makes our country so great. But I would like everyone to read it. Think about how it makes you feel. Prideful? Scared? Excited? However it makes you feel, realize that this kind of passion has not been seen in years. The world is changing, but it is up to us to make it a great change!

Mrs. Knutzen

Written by Dave Ross
I come from the heart of the baby boom, raised in white suburbia to believe America was the greatest country on earth. In the 70's I traveled behind the iron curtain where people would want to know everything about America, and quietly press notes into your hand saying "USA, yes!"

But there was also the memory of visits to the South, seeing those peculiar signs on the bathrooms -- and knowing that the legacy of those days let the tyrants of the world say, you see, that's what America REALLY is.

There's a reason conservatives were able to make the flag an issue. It's because -- yes! Many people of my generation had trouble displaying the flag and meaning it.

Especially lately.

In 2000 -- the Supreme Court tips the election. 2003 we start a war over weapons that aren't there. 2005, New Orleans. 2008, the financial system collapses.

And you wonder why stuff like that happens.

Now it's clear that if those things hadn't happened, last night wouldn't have happened either.

I know some people are gloomy today.

But I have to think that no one is gloomier than those recruiters in the radical madrassas of the Middle East. Because yes! The 44th President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama. And he was chosen overwhelmingly -- in a free election.

I have to think the job of signing up martyrs to wage jihad on the Great Satan just got a whole lot harder. I also think the American flag is going to re-appear in places where it has been absent too long. And while this doesn't end racism, it means that for my kids, race is destined to be old news. They'll just have to find something else to fight about.