I promised a give-away today. I am such a tease.
I am just all a-flutter that I finally live in a blue state!
Finally!!
It's been many years....like...NEVER!
I have been voting since I turned 18 in 1973 (do the math!), the year after they gave the vote to 18 year olds. (Yep. I remember back in the day when 18 year olds could be drafted to go fight in a war and die, but didn't have the right to vote.)
My first national election was 1974, in the middle of Watergate. My first presidential election was 1976. I think I voted for Carter. I may not have. I like him now though. I like to think I voted for him.
I have lived (and voted) in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Colorado. I take that back. I was not old enough to vote when I lived in Kansas.
All those states last night? Red. Except where I am living now...and whooping it up, doing my own little happy dance...in the privacy of my own little heart and soul and mind. And in the semi-privacy of my blog for all the innerwebs to see.
Because that's what us middle-aged white chicks do!
I am thinking I will be remembering the 2008 election like I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and Armstrong and Aldrin landing on the moon in 1969. These are events that remain imprinted on my consciousness for my lifetime, that I marvel I was witness to.
(There are other events all imprinting up my consciousness, but some of them are downers, man, and we don't need anyone bringing us down today, man...)
Interesting...1969, 1989, almost 2009...every 20 years...
(What I see, What I've been taught, what I've learned, what amazes me...)
November 5, 2008
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8 comments:
Hurrah for the red white and BLUE!!
May I join the dance? Even though my vote didn't swing the reddest state in the Union, I still feel jubilant. The Engineer's in mourning, he is an oil man, but it's not near as deep and sincere as it would have been without my 9 years of wifely influence.
Still true blue, even here in Peru. But, I'm glad to see Obama take the wheel. The only hope I have is that the peole do not have such hgh expectations that he cannot possibly live up to them. From some of the blogs I've been reading, people expect more than one man can do in a lifetime, much less 4 years.
I'm so so pleased to be blue too. Yay for change and opportunity. I decided yesterday that I'm driving down to DC for the Inauguration - it's something I can't miss.
Blue has always been my favorite color. *smile*
If you look at the detailed county map of the vote in Kansas City, both Missouri and Kansas, they were blue, even though there is a lot of red in the rest of the states. My daughter there helped.
And I like to think I helped Arapahoe county too, because it was true blue as well for the first time since I have lived here! I canvassed and made phone calls on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!!!
There are many people doing the happy dance today.
Hi;
It's amazing, really, how hopeful I feel now that we've got Obama in office. Wunx and I need to stick together in our sorry red state -- though my tiny Utah town went blue for Obama!!! That made me proud even though it's only about 3,000 votes... :)))
I was 21 in 1973!
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