The day after the presidential election of 2008, I left town early on a flight to Wisconsin for business. While Barack Obama won (what the political pundits call) A Historical Election of the First African American as President of the United States, I woke up to the same world I had been living in on November 4. My husband was unemployed and looking for work. Trash still littered the interstate I was driving to the airport. My retirement funds were about 70% of what I had previously accrued in my modest investments.
Early during the primary season, I had decided that I would vote for Senator Obama in my state primary, Tennessee, on SuperTuesday. He lost to Hillary Clinton. Finally on November 5, I woke up to election results in which my candidate won, a candidate I strongly supported.
This blog will be about life during the next four years, after this Historic Election. I’m a 56-year-old white female, born in the election year of 1952, to Democratic parents in the south. I was reared on the fantasy of Camelot, briefly tempted by southern pride, became a liberal and voted for George McGovern in my first presidential election. I’ve always voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election, but I was not always convinced that the Democrats had run the best candidate. This time, this place in history, I’m sure that Barack Obama is the person to lead us.
This blog is my observations about Life in ObamaNation.
