Voteing day for change

My vote right after I flipped the levers

It's interesting I am old enough to have had friends who couldn't drink out of the same fountain as me when I was a kid.

I've listened and argued and made my voice heard this year in various lists and places because i've seen one party use race by framing it in every way it could to avoid using the one word they couldn't dare use which was nigger. The framing of the man as terrorist thru association and and his middle name and the color of his skin hes a muslim a bad man evil evil bad bad wait till he gets elected and just wait... the pregnant pause straight out of the rhetoric of the 60's wait till that black man rape and pillages.

This man ran a campaign on his merits and hopes, he ran as an intelligent man as someone who while i may not agree totally with some of his stances has shown hes not afraid to be criticized or challenged. Hes impressed me by picking a running mate who in his own words will disagree with him on many things.

At one time I was very much in the Hillary camp but once she lost I looked at my options and as the campaign came along I went from just going to flip the switches democratic because McCain wasn't the candidate I wanted, but because this man shows he could change that he could listen and that he understood the rule of law instead of our present president who feels he can make himself above the Law. I've watched the election listening to why people want to vote for him and listening to them say the same things, be energized by his campaign.

An unsourced comment to one of his aids LBJ is supposed to have said "We have just lost the South for a generation. " after signing the voters right act in 65 and the south which had been solidly blue for decades went red and today that could change, what I see and hear isn't the sound of people voting for a man because hes black but because hes an american, because hes speaking to the problems and real values that we need most and forget first.

This election isn't about race at all its it has nothing to do with white black indian jewish or muslim which makes it all about race the way it should be even though the other side would like it to be and has tried to frame it in scare tactics straight from the play-books of Goebbels and McArthy dredging up longstanding fears and grudges stirring the race pot while at the same time trying to blame it on the other candidate.

Its nice so far to see the american people seeing thru that veil of blinding hate and paranoia and while many have succumbed to it many more have not

I voted today for a candidate who when I was a small child wouldn't have been able to drink from the same water fountain as I could.

Kinda cool isn't it

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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There is no Negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem. Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument. Every American citizen must have the right to vote...Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes... No law that we now have on the books...can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it... There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong--deadly wrong--to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

Introducing the Voting Rights Act to Congress, March 15, 1965

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm

OHIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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