Defining Moments
Posted on September 2, 2008 - Filed Under Current Affairs |
Our history is littered with these defining moment, these points in our timeline which seem to affect everything and everyone. These indelible dates, which will forever be burned into our subconscious. Horrifically many of these moments are tragic, such as 9-11 or December 7th, 1941. Not to say that positive dates don’t exist, such as July 4th, 1776 or July 20th, 1969. And it doesn’t take a historian to remember events, even if the dates aren’t exactly handy. Such as the Kennedy Assassination or the first Space Shuttle launch.
It is my fervent belief another one of those moments is upon us.
With announcements made this last Thursday and Friday, the face politics will forever be changed. And even though Americans have no problem remember November 4th as the date we all casts our votes, every one of us will November 4th, 2008 as the election year that carried the first black man into the oval office or the first female into the Vice President’s chair.
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 Senator Obama (l) and Senator Biden (r) |
 Senator McCain and Governor Palin |
In speaking with my friends and colleagues, this election has piqued everyone’s curiosity, returning the flame of political debate and excitement which I personally have not witnessed in a long time. And I believe this election is special, due to the historical significance this singular event carries with it.
No doubt about it: people are charged.
Independent of who wins this election, all of us will be able to say “I remember 2008, when the first . . . “
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Wonderful post… and my thoughts exactly
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