The Day Is One!

We did it.

America finally started growing up tonight. We left our adolescence behind.

This is an historic result, obviously. More than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we've elected a black President. What African-Americans can feel right now, I can only try to imagine.

But calling this an African-American victory would be shortsighted. We all did this. We looked past race. We have bigger fish to fry. And tomorrow, we have to start frying them.

We need to leave the most divisive, vitriolic Presidential campaign in American history behind us. We need to unite, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, everyone, behind our President. We need to have faith in our system, we need that faith now more than ever.

The world will see us with new eyes now. We could have played it safe, we could have fallen prey to our fears. We took a risk. We took a leap, a leap of faith.

We are the change we'd been waiting for.

Day One

Hello, "my friends". Props to my college schoolmate and new facebook friend Alex for inspiring me to start blogging on this historic day of November 4th, 2008. You can thank me or curse me later, Alex.

I have a long day of CNN watching in front of me, and their coverage of polling problems raises an interesting question: if we're the greatest democracy in the history of the world, why can't we get it together for our national elections? Is it too much to ask that we have a uniform ratio of polling booths to registered voters in every state? How about a standardized ballot form, and the same type of voting machine everywhere? The outgoing Presidential administration has waged an astronomically expensive war in Iraq since March of 2003, ostensibly to spread democracy (at least the third rationale, after exacting revenge for Saddam's nonexistant involvement in 9/11, and to uncover his nonexistant WMD's). But how are we supposed to spread democracy overseas when our own democracy's election process hasn't been perfected? How is a Presidential election in Baghdad supposed to go off without a hitch, when we can't even pull it off properly in Florida and Ohio?

Surely this is something we can all agree on. And as American citizens, we can make our voice heard. Come on, as a nation we managed more than 97 million votes for the last American Idol finale, surely we can make our voices heard on this too?

Below are links that you can use to contact your representative in the House of Representatives, and your Senator. You don't have to know his/her name, the site will help you. Encourage your Senator and Representative to sponsor a bill that will standardize Federal elections. If we're the greatest democracy in the history of the world, why don't we start acting like it?

Here are those links:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

http://www.senate.gov/

Thanks for spending a few minutes with me. Don't worry, it won't be this serious every time you stop by. I'll blab about entertainment and pop culture sometimes too. I'm good at that, ask anybody.