Yes! It's finally here...the day that for four years we have been waiting for....the presidential election day. I say we have been waiting for 4 years for this -- because since the day he was elected, certain groups made it their business to make sure that, the first African-American president elected in this country, would be a one-term president.
This has led to -- we the people -- being deluged with so much negative advertising, through all the possible media outlets -- Internet, print, and so on -- that we just wanted this day to come so we could get it over with. So much money has been spent trying to convince us that we should hit the reset button, and elect someone else, that frankly -- we have election fatigue.
And specially here in New York, still recovering from Sandy, with public transportation not yet fully working, with more than half a million people with no electric power, and with gas for cars mysteriously very scarce -- people want to show that we are not idiots - that we know who we want our next president to be. That we can see through the fog of lies and distortions that has been thrown at us.
I know of people that live in the hardest hit areas, like Far Rockaway, and Staten Island and others, that were making their way to vote, people that went first thing in the morning to make sure their vote counted. The turnout in minority communities was huge! Women also were out in large numbers, In my neighborhood, it was amazing to see that people that normally don't bother to vote -- suddenly realizing that this was an important, and more historic occasion than four years ago.
Thanks to the Sandy hurricane, many people suddenly realized that --- hey...maybe government should be there to help people, that when something this big happens you can't just leave it up to the states --they don't have the resources for something this enormous. Plus, many of the people I know, believe that we don't want this country, which is an immigrant's dream, to be open just for the very rich -- we want a country with a strong and stable middle class.
These are the people, I believe, that will give our first African-American president, another four years, because he has shown, at least in his actions, that he cares more about the poor and the middle class, than those that are spending billions, trying to turn this country into the playground of the rich. Many of my friends have said that they will not go to bed -- until they can see if the voice of the ordinary people will be heard, and this country will remain the shining beacon that it represents, for the rest of the planet.
