An old friend of mine who I've never met (yeah, I know, it's an internets thing) pinged me on ICQ to give me her reaction to watching Senator Obama's SC victory speech via webstream:
He will wake the silent voices of the disempowered and as his campaign gathers momentum, he will see more and more and more turn towards him. The youth, for whom this will be their first opportunity to vote in a presidential election are hanging out for Obama to be their president. He was remarkable in the way he addressed every complaint against his hopes and dreams for an America to be proud of.
Yeah. *That's* what we're talkin' 'bout, y'all!
And that voice is being heard even on the other side of the world. Because the friend who wrote to tell me that lives in Tasmania -- an island off the coast of Australia, the mainland she was born and bred on. She is not nor has she ever been an American citizen, yet this election and this candidate is seen as so important even that far away, she felt compelled to write me and tell me how she felt when she heard Obama speak last night via the web.
I think that says a very big lot about what we're doing here and who we're doing it for, folks...
GOBAMA!!