En algún lugar en Chicago, Illinois...
He andado bastante ocupada estas últimas semanas (detalles en otras entradas posteriores), pero por nada del mundo dejé de revisar las noticias cada cinco minutos el día de hoy. Contuve la respiración antes de salir de trabajar cuando leí que McCain comenzaba la noche con 8 votos (fuck you, Kentucky) y Obama con 3 (...con lo que se pueda, Vermont), y durante el camino de regreso a la casa prendí el radio 45 segundos para apaciguar la ansiedad.
Me despegué de la televisión de la casa de mi madre apenas hace media hora.
Pensylvania, Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada...Yeah, we did.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
Puedo irme a dormir un poco más tranquila. Una cosa menos me mantiene despierta esta noche.
pd.
I lol'ed. So fucking hard.
Enhorabuena, Mundo. Buenas noches.
And now...BARACK TEH CASBAH.
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