Final thought about the election

Just a few final thoughts....

I hope that if Barack Obama wins, this will put to rest the nonsense about who's a "real American" or not. Every time I hear a variation of that thought coming out of a right-winger's mouth, it makes me cringe. Hell, I stood in line for three hours at the polls on Sunday. Don't ever suggest to me that I'm not a "real American" just because I'm not a Republican!

I hope the political left will use this opportunity to, once and for all, wrestle the ideas of patriotism and the American dream out of the clutches of small-minded bigots.

And I hope that we'll remember that this country is supposed to be rooted in the ideal of pluralism and tolerance.

The day after the 2004 election, I remember moaning to my dad, "I feel like this isn't even my country anymore!" And he said, "No, it is your country. You've just got to remember, it's their country too."

For all those people who seem to think that a black man named Barack Hussein Obama couldn't possibly represent them, consider this: you're not the only person in the country, and not everyone's like you.