So, much is being made of the YOUNG people who came out in droves, and sick of Baby Boomers, sick of the Great Generation (WWll vets, for those of you who don't breathe Tom Brokaw for breakfast), took charge and voted Barack Obama in.
Normally I'd take umbrage. I'm a Baby Boomer who has been firm behind my man Barack since way back, and there are lots like me.
But, I like young people. I've raised two excellent young people. Young People did get off their derrieres this year and vote for their man Obama. Thank you, Young People.
But the crew I want to thank the most. The people who had the biggest crisis of faith in order to get out there and cast a vote for Obama, are the REPUBLICANS who couldn't take it anymore, the REPUBLICANS who dared think outside their political habits, the Republicans who actually got out there and voted for Barack Obama, even as every bone in their body shrank back in disbelief, but as every fiber in their body said, THANK YOU. Now you are thinking like a free person.
That is my beloved, eighty-six year old, Southern born Dad, in his day a corporate big wig, sitting in his favorite chair, a view of a Southern Californian beach and the Pacific Ocean to his back, and four major daily newspapers on the table beside him, which he reads every day.
The only Democrat he ever voted for was John F. Kennedy...because he was Catholic.
That is until now. It was hard. I personally had to do a lot of flailing of my arms. But my Dad is a brilliant man, and even more brilliant today in my eyes because of his hard won fight to convince himself that Barack Obama was the only way for this country to go. But he did convince himself...and he would say, with a lot of help from Obama himself.
He'll kill me for showing him with that cap on...but heck, it gets cold in California in the winter. He wears it. We have to get new ones pronto when these caps get lost, or just too beat up.
He has some very fine hats in his closet ,which he puts on to emerge from the house. Just so you know.
But so, to all you Republicans who broke down and voted for Obama, thank you!
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