The Landing

An emotional night to say the least! There has been so much written said as to the significance of Obama’s win, and the usual “ponderings” of what now and where he stands on the arts. It’s very clear where he stands and the comparison I heard to his win and the 1969 landing on the moon does not even come close to the significance his victory represents…..

First the arts. This article by Ramond J Learsy published Nov 1 on the Huffington Post sums it up.  In short, it is important to him!

Keith Olbermann compared his win to the moon landing, yet I believe it’s bigger than that. In 1964 JFK’s Civil Rights Act came to the senate floor and for 57 days it dominated proceedings including Robert Byrd’s 14 hour 13 minute speech against it. Finally the filibuster was broken and it passed but the final passing of the bill in my view happened last night by us some 44 years later. Now we will see if there is full acceptance, let’s make it happen!

When JFK announced the goal of putting a man on the moon it took imagination, resources, formulas, skill and the will of NASA. To elect Barack Obama as president it took acceptance, passion, fight, understanding, compassion, belief, faith and the will of over 60 million people. Putting a man on the moon was big, putting this man on the earth is colossal and a giant leap for humankind!

It was a proud moment in time for me to stand with my family to listen to Barack Obama speak at this rally in Springfield MO last Saturday Nov 1 at JFK stadium at Parkview high school. (I had to use a 12X zoom since we were near the back of the crowd, which was upwards of 35,000!)