The Next First Family

This morning I woke up and it felt like Christmas morning with all the excitement a child feels realizing that soon they will open their presents, except that mine came last night. To add to that, it snowed today in Salt Lake City.

My eyes have welled up off and on today. This has got to be one of the best days of my life.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

The polls close in 5 minutes on the west coast and I feel like it's New Year's Eve and I'm counting down to midnight.

Just waiting for Obama to hit 270!

Optimistically Nauseous

Those two words pretty much sum up how most Obama supporters are feeling today.

Personally, I'm eating way too much of my kids' leftover Halloween candy and am glued to MSNBC but very happy that in 3 hours some results will start flowing in.

GOBAMA!

Happy Halloween!

Les Misbarack

It's November 3rd, 2008 at Obama National Headquarters. The song is from the play Les Miserables. See original song here with subtitles.

Remembering September 11th

May we never forget...

Obama on the Republican Attacks

“You know, I’ve been called worse on the basketball court.”

"This is not a time for politics as usual or for run-of-the-mill politicians."

Former U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-IA) gave a great speech tonight at the DNC Convention. Below are my favorite parts. You can read the full transcript here or watch the speech here.

"In troubled times, it was understood that country comes before party, that in perilous moments mutual concern for the national interest must be the only factor in political judgments. This does not mean that debate within and between the political parties should not be vibrant. Yet what frustrates so many citizens is the lack of bipartisanship in Washington and the way today’s Republican Party has broken with its conservative heritage."

"The party that once emphasized individual rights has gravitated in recent years toward regulating values. The party of military responsibility has taken us to war with a country that did not attack us. The party that formerly led the world in arms control has moved to undercut treaties crucial to the defense of the earth. The party that prides itself on conservation has abdicated its responsibilities in the face of global warming. And the party historically anchored in fiscal restraint has nearly doubled the national debt, squandering our precious resources in an undisciplined and unprecedented effort to finance a war with tax cuts."

"America has seldom faced more critical choices: whether we should maintain an occupational force for decades in a country and region that resents western intervention or elect a leader who, in a carefully structured way, will bring our troops home from Iraq as the heroes they are."

"Whether it is wise to continue to project power largely alone with flickering support around the world or elect a leader who will follow the model of General Eisenhower and this president’s father and lead in concert with allies. Whether it is prudent to borrow from future generations to pay for today’s reckless fiscal policies or elect a leader who will shore up our budgets and return to a strong dollar. Whether it is preferable to continue the policies that have weakened our position in the world, deepened our debt and widened social divisions or elect a leader who will emulate John F. Kennedy and relight a lamp of fairness at home and reassert an energizing mix of realism and idealism abroad."

"The portfolio of challenges passed on to the next president will be as daunting as any since the Great Depression and World War II. This is not a time for politics as usual or for run-of-the-mill politicians. Little is riskier to the national interest than more of the same. America needs new ideas, new energy and a new generation of leadership."