Wow.

[p0tat0es]

Last night was awesome, amazing, wonderful, great...I'm not sure if it's totally hit me yet. (I tend to have a delayed, if any, reaction to a lot of things.) Cait and I went to the VFW hall so I could vote, and then hit the liquor store for supplies. We started watching the results come in at my house, and then moved to her place for a bit. We got caught in a hailstorm of Biblical proportions in between. I thought a funnel cloud was going to descend on Ballard. Anyhow, we eventually ended up at Hazlewood, where they had a couple of TVs set up, and were giving out pizza from Snoose Junction next door. The place was full of revellers from the hood - the Fiore kids, 3/4ths of the Cops, Ben Shepherd (first time I'd seen that dude in forevers), Matt Harvey, and one McCain supporter. Poor sonofabitch.

We got there right as Ohio was called for Obama. And it just kept getting better. They turned the sound off for a bit before the West Coast polls closed and put on some Stevie Wonder. As people were dancing and drinking and chatting, I turned and looked at one of the TVs, which displayed a graphic showing that the election had been called for Obama. All I could do was point and started shouting "Look look look look!" The sound came back on, and the place went apeshit.

Sadly, there was no dancing in the street, but we had dancing on the sidewalk covered.

I, for the first time in a long time, am hopeful for this country.

Comments

[tehschkott.livejournal.com]

waddaya mean there wasn't any dancing in the streets?

http://flickr.com/photos/suxdonut/sets/72157608686110343/

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

I should amend that to say "no dancing in the street in Ballard."

I just watched a video of thousands of people freaking out to "Don't Stop Believing" on Broadway & Pike and it made me misty.

[tehschkott.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you used that word misty. I've been misty all day reading Obama junk. It's silly how happy I feel about this whole thing.

[sillyape.livejournal.com]

There shoulda been a lutefisk fueled Uff Da dance party in Ballard, followed by a very slow motorcade creeping down Market.

[me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. One post back I thought that was a random Sopranos reference. A bit weird though, "smell of wine and cheap perfume"? (Maybe that's what a victory party in Alaska would have smelled like.)

[me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com]

But yeah, people over here are enthusiastic as well. There is a feeling of relief in the air that's almost palpable. I don't think any American president has been hated as much as Bush II over here.