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yes. that.
Back at the rally, after the march had left MLK Gardens, I'd gone back for the car while Brett took photos, and I spotted a very old black man in a sharp Sunday suit walking slowly at the very back of the huge march. He hadn't yet arrived at the voting center, and I decided to find him when I got back.
I wanted to go talk to him, to ask him what this moment meant to him. He was a guy who you take one glance at, and know, that guy's seen it all. I wanted a quote. I had my journalist hat on. I thought, this will be great.
So when I got back to the voting location with the car, I went to find him in the line. Eventually I spotted him, and was ready to walk up the few feet between us and introduce myself when I stopped in my tracks.
A young black boy, no more than eight years old, walked up to this man, who was at least eighty. The boy offered the man a sticker, probably an "I Voted" sticker, but I couldn't see. The man took the sticker and paused. Silently, he looked down at the boy, who was looking back up at the man. The man put his hand gently on the boy's head, and I saw his eyes glisten.
I didn't ask the man for a quote. I didn't need to. I walked over by myself, behind the community center, and I sat down on a bench next to the track, and wept.
- Sean Quinn, fivethirtyeight.com
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obama_daily- customize to your heart's content
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I loved that quote <3
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There's a story -- dammit, link (http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=3978233) -- about a 86 yro man who's volunteering for Obama because his wife recently passed and he needed something to fill the time. There was a raffle among the volunteers/staffers to go see Obama when he came through Boulder, CO and this guy won. Although whether he 'won' so much as the entire place decided he should win, I don't know, and I don't care.
There are so many powerful messages of hope out there, this year. I'm so glad to see it, because even at 29, I know I'm a cynical old bitch.
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Even the farker comments were pretty universally about how there was suddenly dust in their eyes.
*blinks rapidly just thinking about it*
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But only because I wasn't sitting at a desk.
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I know McCain supporters are floundering a little -- and I'm talking about in this regard only -- because their candidate has nothing momentous, culturally, about him. McCain breaks no barriers as far as any of the -isms out there, except maybe for neocons, and they aren't exactly a culturally repressed minority. So it does unfairly skew Obama and Obama supporters. I get that.
I also don't care, because I want read and watch every story, I want to sob like a child with the joy of it, and I want them all to see him inaugurated in January. Because this is one of the few individuals who I think is not only worthy of being in a momentous position, but the actual position itself without anything else.
And I'm rambling and crying again, sorry.
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imma edit it into my picspam post with a note saying you pointed me there *flails*
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eee, good, more people should read this! <3333
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Five daaaaaays, Melbean!
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