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Your words made this 60 year-old very earnest and rarely self-deprecating boomer cry. (Something I've done a lot of these past two days.) For the first time in my life, like you, I made calls, sent money and knocked on doors from one end of my little northeast Ohio town to the other and back for this man. And when they announced on Tuesday night that Ohio had gone for Barack Obama I let out two war whoops and then started crying like a baby. And when 11 o'clock rolled around and all of the major networks announced that Barack Obama would be our next president I cried some more and when he and his beautiful family walked out onto that stage in Grant Park I started wondering if this was how Niagara Falls felt.
God willing, Barack Obama will have the opportunity to fulfill all of the hope that so many of us have in him. In the meantime, enjoy the moment and relish the feeling that comes with finding a man, a leader, who seems poised to govern rather than rule, someone who's already inspired millions and may very well attract some of your generation's best and brightest to help him and serve this country just as John Kennedy did so many years ago.
(And,yes, I read "I'm Okay, You're Okay", not once, but twice, and if that's not hokey enough, I thought the sun rose and set on Rod McKuen :-)
Rotten apples don't fall far from the tree.
