we woke the boy up at 4:30 wednesday morning to watch history. it was a good way to start the day. we joined an all-night party of americans, ugandans and others in town to watch live CNN broadcast of the results. within minutes of obama’s victory being called we’d received several sms messages all with the same theme - “congs. OBAMA.” (forget congrats; congs is the shorthand for congratulations in uganda.)
today was the first time i’ve ever cried listening to a politician speak. i believe…yes we can. and now odin gets to go home before 4 years from now.
we arrived home to a small, celebratory welcoming party and a gift of made-in-uganda obama-for-president polo shirts. ugandans are happy. obama’s african home country is too - thursday has been declared a public holiday in kenya.
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1 philip // Nov 6, 2008 at 11:27 am
>today was the first time i’ve ever cried listening to a politician speak. i believe…yes we can.
that’s not true…what about jed bartlet?
2 Jim // Nov 6, 2008 at 12:47 pm
In Britain I did the opposite - stayed up until 3:30 when it was clear there was no way McCain could possibly win, then went to bed happy. I watched the returns on both CNN and the BBC. The commentators, both liberal and conservative were all good with one exception. One BBC guest was former Bush U.N. ambassador John Bolton who was an utter and complete a$$hole. One more reminder of what we won’t have to put up with any more after the Obama inauguration.
3 johnjohn // Nov 28, 2008 at 7:42 am
Holed up in a tiny hotel room in nowhere’sville Minnesota, Sick as a very sick baby. I awake to the sounds of weeky calling to tell me that history has been made. glorious technology
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