My One and Only Political Blog

For the longest time most of my friends have been commenting to me how interesting they find it that I haven't said anything about the election on this blog. I mean, you spend approximately two minutes in a conversation with me and I can somehow turn it to politics - talking about how Greyson needs health insurance or about how we need to save the planet. Frankly, I haven't said anything because my husband politely asked me not to. He wanted to make sure at the end of all this that our conservative friends were still out conservative friends.

But I wanted to say something (two things actually). The first being a olive branch of sorts from the liberals to all of you conservatives out there. I know y'all are pissed and disappointed right now. Believe me, if Obama had lost I would have been mad at Raif and I would have spent the next few weeks talking about packing up the family and taking advantage of his EU citizenship and moving to Europe. And I don't expect your disappointment to end anytime soon. That being said I also hope that you can give us liberals a chance and try to come into the next few years with an open mind and some patience. The US is pretty screwed up right about now and it will take all of us together to put it back on track - it might not be the perfect track for everyone but hopefully it will move in a general direction that everyone can live with.

The second thing - regardless of your political views I think we should all take a second to realize what a moment we lived through last night, in the election of the first African-American President. Last week I was talking to Ms. Tina, Greyson's preschool teacher, and she was telling me that they were doing an excercise in class about different and same. They were asking various children things that were different and same including each other. It made my heart skip a beat when she told me that Greyson thought he was the same as his friend Johannes- even though Johannes is African-American. I hope yesterday was a big step in the right direction for race relations in this country.

OK, enough about the election. Although, I will admit that the gleeful liberal inside of me is going to listen to Sean Hannity cry on his radio show this afternoon as I go to pick up Greyson!!