Our New President 2008
Who would have thought on November 4th in 1958 that 50 years later America would elect our first African American president? No one that's who! And I'm the lucky girl who celebrated her 50th birthday on that momentous occasion. Never in my life have I been so involved, and that's not saying much, in a presidential election. This time I listened to every debate on TV. As I did, I listened not so much to what they were saying as to how they were saying it. I filtered through the words the candidates were saying, because much of it I either did not comprehend the complexity of, or decided it was campaign babble. Our new president presented himself professionally, seemingly knowledgeable, and poised at all times. He seemed to me to be a thoughtful man. The other candidates seemed frayed around the edges, subjective to what their advisors were telling them perhaps and thus not speaking from their own convictions as much as I perceived Barack Obama to be doing. Up until the mome...