Yes We Can...Yes We Did

Welcome to the office as the leader of the world's most powerful nation (how much longer will we be able to lay claim to that title?), President-elect Barack Obama. A resounding victory over Senator John McCain was a decisive and clear mandate to begin the healing that really should not have to wait for your inauguration on January 20, 2009, which, to most people of this country and countries around the world cannot come fast enough.

However, going rather unnoticed to some degree was how you have already been anointed president by none other than that most loquacious asshole of all time, Rush Limbaugh, calling you, the day after your victory, a "Chicago thug." To emphasize his point, he repeated it in his very next breath. After all, his listeners deserve nothing but the best intellectual discourse from their leader.

Ah, but he wasn't finished. A week later he blamed the economic meltdown on you. Really. Any person with a fraction of intelligence who would believe that deserves to have Limbaugh as their spokesman.

But, enough of that idiot. The point of this is that you have just entered a new world, a world that millions of Americans have been waiting for a long time: eight years by many, two centuries by many others. Your campaign mantra of change, a change we can believe in, a yes we can, and a leader in the making, laid claim that the tens of thousands that turned out for you at your campaign rallies was not a fluke. That was proven when the polls that consistently had you ahead by an average of six percentage points over McCain held up on election day.

Voter suppression and vote balloting manipulation fell by the wayside as the turnout in your favor was too much for anyone to try to overturn. If exit surveys are to be believed, and I would hope that voters were honest in their responses, for every voter who voted against you because of your race, there were as many, if not more, who voted for you because of your race.

Personally, I voted for you because of who you are, and what you represent to me: integrity, intelligence, temperament, hope, inspiration, leadership, and an open and honest dialogue with the American people. If you were white, grey, green, purple, whatever, what is beneath your skin is what is important.

And, for me, as I said earlier in this modest report of mine, January 20, 2009, cannot get here fast enough.

Congratulations, President-elect Barack Obama. Finally, a return of intelligence to the White House. There is hope after all.

Peace.

Larry