blog - gObama 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
(Berlin, Germany - 9.30 a.m. local time)
“This is our moment” were the words I heard blasting out of my laptop speakers at 4 a.m. this morning. I fell asleep at 3.a.m. - too tired to watch CNN live online. Half awake - I caught the historic speech between dreams and reality - heard Hillary’s thundering voice of steel - not a nightmare any longer - she congratulated Obama. Surprise victory.
The first step in this paradigm shift has been accomplished -- now comes a really tough battle - fighting the Republican corporate media machine - and the industrial military mindset of 50% of Americans. My gut instincts since November last year were accurate. I sensed and witnessed history in the making. All on tape since December 2007. Fired up, ready to go!
I could feel this magical victory blowing through the air. Every campaign event, every barbershop talk, every street corner gamble, and conversation had a sense of urgency in retrospect. Hope & Change. Collective longings that set off the imagination of millions of people around the world and across ethnic borders and gender divide. Another world is possible...
Those folks who said: “Obama is a poet - not a leader” have been slapped in the face by a tight flow of Obama rhetoric. By the way, the world could do with some more (last poets) who know how to rap to run things, innit?
Look at all the happy, clappy faces behind Obama in the crowds. Tears of joy and pain. This was meant to be on a universal plan...
The interview with Ron Walters and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now talks about the historic dimension of his achievements.
