It's no secret that Cheryl and I were - and are - tremendous supporters of Barack Obama. He's the first candidate we ever donated money to, and I know one of Cheryl's great regrets would be not being able to vote for him in the general election.
Last night, Vanessa came over and we watched the election results, flipping around between NBC, CNN and MSNBC (those giant electronic maps do look very spiffy in HD), and when 8 o'clock rolled around and the left coast offically gave the election to Obama, Vanessa got a little sniffly, and I know Cheryl would have been a little emotional as well. The cherry-on-top for us would be, somehow, Al Franken winning the senatorial election in Minnesota, which might yet happen. We were both big fans of Al Franken's books, and to see him get elected (and, by default, Bill O'Reilly head a-sploding) would be beyond cool.
This will be a moment that we can tell our grandchildren about. Others have said it more eloquently, but to me, the fact that we have elected a man with a decidedly odd name, raised by a single mother and grandparents, and just happens to be black - these are the ideals that this country was founded upon. This is what America is supposed to be, where a man like Barack Obama can rise to the highest office in the land.
I wish him well, as he - and we all - have a lot of work ahead of us.
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