Obama!

Congratulations, to Obama and to all the supporters. What a beautiful race it has been. It's too early to celebrate total victory in this primary season. But this would be the good time to write proudly the number 2119 on your forehead, dance in the streets, hug strangers, buy rounds of drinks to fellow Obamaniacs at the local brewery and in general just accept that all sorts of teary and touching and happy and incredible emotions are pouring out of you right now and you should manifest them in the most public way possible. Because now is a time when millions of people very like yourself, very unlike yourself, and everybody in between, across the nation, are also feeling those emotions. This energy, and this happiness that I feel, this is what change, believing in change, and knowing what change means, is  all about. And if we all let these awesome emotions out, maybe this country will be a more happy place, even for a little while, until we get embarrassed about honking and screaming OBAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAA all the way home.

And, Clinton supporters, I also hope you will let it out. Your candidate is farther behind, and that is unlikely to change. But this disappointment, this sad moment that you feel as you are watching the numbers, this is change, too. Do you remember last primary season when Kerry won and that "okay" and "anything is better than Bush" moments? I do. Aren't you excited that this primary season there were TWO candidates who are intelligent, good people? And if you dare say to me that McCain is better than Obama but Hillary is better than McCain, then you did not hear Hillary's speech in which she stated how stupid it would be for her supporters to vote for McCain if Obama got the nomination. This race has been about Obama vs. Hillary, but it also has to be about a Democrat in the White House in 2009. If you are voting for McCain over Obama, then I really don't understand why you supported Hillary in the first place, since the two candidates share so much in common in policies and perspective.

Anyway, YAAAAY!!!