http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2008/11/04/si_se_puede_2/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2008/11/04/si_se_puede_2/#comment-1927 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:25:30 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2008/11/04/si_se_puede_2/#comment-1927 WE DID IT.
We fucking did it. I didn’t let myself believe it until CNN interrupted with the breaking news that told the truth, and then I was screaming and crying, and everyone around me was screaming and it was the purest moment I have felt in so long. His speech was beautiful. I too felt, for the first time since a Nader rally in 2000, that I was one among many (in a good way), that there are others like me, and others not like me, but together we are a nation, and now we have a nation of hope. I remember in 2001 coming to the porch of Rip City right after September 11 and seeing you there and feeling like the whole world had gone crazy and you were the only person who didn’t call me a Nazi for pointing out the flaws in U.S. foreign policy…imagine, so long ago. Did we know what was in store for us? The eight years of hell, of anxiety, of torture and death? We did not. But we had an inkling. And it happened, and it got worse and worse and worse and never better, and we turned thirty (at least, I did), and the global village was a sad place. TONIGHT WE REINSTATED OURSELVES IN THE WORLD OF HUMANS.
I am so happy right now, I don’t want to go to bed.

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