So thankful to have witnessed this!

In no other election and at no other time have I ever been so excited, so moved, and so interested in a presidential inauguration. I wonder if this is how people felt when John F. Kennedy was elected. I feel like FINALLY we're going to be able to get back on track and hopefully undo all the damage that has been done in the past 8 years by "W" and his oil-mongering cronies. I wonder if this is what people felt like when, in their life time, women or African-Americans won the right to vote. It makes me want to go out and do some grass roots community service work and really hope that our smaller communities will band together to effect the changes that we so desperately need. I'm saving all the newspapers for Keenan who is too young to be able to remember and experience this but for whom this night has a particular meaning and purpose (even if he doesn't know it yet). I know that as much as I try to give him the same rights and privileges I knew growing up that his experience will still, unfortunately, be inherently different from mine.

Congratulations Barack Obama and GOOD RIDDANCE George W. Bush you fucking idiot!