Something that was on mind

I was reminded about some thoughts I had the other day by reading my friend Mandy's blog. It almost shocked me when I read it, but I'm not certain why. I mean obviously there will be people who are upset. I guess in my way I am blind to that because I could not possibly understand what is wrong with Barack Obama being our next president. But as she said, it is the south. I guess I just do not understand the thoughts...or more like I cannot comprehend how they could feel that way.

However, here are the thoughts that went through my head~

I was walking with the kids the other day and I was thinking about how in the "old" days when the country had a vision of hope. I never knew what those days were like, or how everyday people could be so wrapped up in these people that brought them this hope and they didn't even know them. I guess in my mind, these visions of hope came from people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy. People that were gone before my time and still to this day hold a place in people's hearts...even though they didn't even know them. And as I walked in the wind and drizzle pushing the stroller...I realized I had this very same feeling for our future President. Maybe not to the extent of those in the past although I cannot attest to how they felt, or how the country felt as a whole, because I was not there. But I feel something for this future we hold and I feel like he will take us there. I have never cried over politics, but I cried when he won. I cried when I watched him speak...it moved me and it made me happy to see how our country has changed and I hope to God that our country will grow stronger and be better off than the last 8 years. And in all reality...that's part of what makes me so happy, I have faith and hope in this man...whom I do not even know.