Imagine a President with a genuine smile

Imagine if you will, a President that smiles and you know it's a genuine smile. Now that ladies and gentlemen is something we've not seen in a long long time. I'm looking forward to eight years of it.

Grace loves me

She smacked me upside the face yesterday and the bitch did today too. Thank God Barack Obama was on her side when she smacked me today. I couldn't vote today. I missed the cut-off in my new state to register. My heart was so heavy that I couldn't vote. For the first time ever in my life, I couldn't vote. I've voted in every single election I've ever been eligible to vote in. It didn't matter to me if it was for dog catcher (cliche I know) but I ALWAYS voted. And then in this one, this one! I can't vote???? YARGGGGGG Obama Obama Obama Obama. If I say it again and again does it count???

The Audacity of Hope

I can vividly, vividly remember Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE!!! What profound words. The vivid pictures he painted in my mind. I remember thinking this young man is something, this young man is going somewhere, I hope this young man is not assassinated! Why would my mind stop in the rapture and think such a thing? Because in my lily white virginal world the good guys, the smart guys, the guys of color, do not get to power.

I also remember thinking he's attractive, he's tall, he's eloquent, he's real. You could tell, intuitively he had a great mind. And he was genuine. A genuine politician? Oxymoron? No, I don't think so. I believed this man. I believed this good, kind, smart, genuine man could lead us out of this shadow of death and destruction. And I believe it today.

What's troubling me is my first impression. Can someone so bold, so great, so new, so full of audacity as to espouse hope, live to make all of our dreams come true?

YES a resounding YES!!!