Thanks, Obama by David Litt

Author:David Litt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

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REELECTED PRESIDENT

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The room exploded. It wasn’t a cheer. It wasn’t a scream. It was a supernova of relief. I threw my hands in the air. Jacqui turned toward me, laughing uncontrollably, and wrapped me in a hug. The noise faded just enough to hear Wolf Blitzer continue.

“. . . because we project he will carry the state of Ohio.”

The ballroom erupted all over again. “Yes we can! Yes we can!”

And then, spontaneously, our time-honored chant evolved into something I had never heard before. “Yes we did! Yes we did!”

I was almost too tired to cry. I was almost too happy to speak.

Only now, with victory in hand, did I realize that part of me thought this day would never come. Anything can happen once, even electing a progressive black man named Barack Hussein Obama president of the United States. But twice? Like so much I had seen over the last four years, it was impossible, and then it was still impossible, and then it had been done. Now, thanks to a remarkable victory, we had four more years to change America. Four more years to close the gap between the country we were and the country we hoped to be.

Was it 2008 all over again? Of course not. I had learned too much about delay and disappointment since then. Running my hand across my punctured belly, I was reminded that some scars don’t quickly heal. But jumping for joy with Jacqui, thinking of the years to come, I wished I could summon Sarah Palin to my side.

“The honeymoon phase may be over,” I’d tell her. “But that hopey, changey thing? It’s working out just fine.”

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