Hope

One week ago, I was celebrating Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa and listening to the pundits gleefully burying Hillary Clinton. I’m no world weary expect on politics but it seemed too early. But listening to those so called experts for nearly five day straight and watching the poles I too began to believe we’d have it wrapped up before January was over. So on Tuesday in New Hampshire when Senator Clinton jumped off to an early lead I thought it was a quirk that would correct itself once the vote total got higher. Well as the night dragged on it became clearer that the pundits didn’t know what the hell they were talking about. The women of New Hampshire rallied behind their sister and gave her the victory. So instead of being on her death bed, she’s getting ready to run the marathon. All of us who support Senator Obama have to prepare ourselves for a long and hard run. Common sense would have told us that if we were listening to it instead of listening to the Chris Matthews of the world.

This is my first post since April. I told myself I stopped posting because I was busy at work and didn’t feel like doing it once I got home. It was more than that though. After becoming so excited after the Democrats regained the House and Senate, I thought we were getting ready to see significant changes in the country. I thought our troops would be withdrawing from Iraq by now and we would see some of the criminals in the Bush administration be brought to justice. Instead we got the surge and some of the criminals resigning from the administration, their punishment, probably getting big advances for future book deals and huge speaking fees. The Democratic leadership couldn’t bend over fast enough for Bush. Where I was excited at the beginning of 2007 thinking it was the beginning of the end for this administration, it was just the beginning of nothing.

I wasn’t too excited by the beginning of the political season, I figured I’d vote for Senator Clinton if she got the nomination, but I didn’t feel any real passion for it. She’d make a good President, but with the chaos Bush has created in his term, good wasn’t good enough to get this country back on track, we need great. That’s where Senator Obama comes in. He’s reignited a passion in politics I haven’t felt since I was a political science major in college. He speaks to the hopes and dreams I have for this country; the wish to turn the page. We are in the 21st century but Bush has dragged this country back to the dark ages. Obama can truly lead us into the 21st century and to a future I once thought we’d have. That’s important, no matter what Hillary and Bill think. So I’m back blogging because I feel excited and hopeful. So I’ll be checking in with more of my thoughts before the South Carolina primary.