Originally Posted by pshrynk
So, I'm sitting here, watching MSNBC (don't sputter like that, Red!) and watching history. Although, I may switch to CNN because they have one of their directors miked in inadvertently to the commentary and it's very annoying.
This is a day that the entire world is watching. In my life I can think of few things that have had this impact. The moon landing. 9/11. Kennedy's funeral. The Challenger disaster. Only one of those four is actually something uplifting.
Now, there are an estimated five billion people joining me in watching this moment. 5,000,000,000. That's a lot of zeros. I have this congnitive dissonance of feeling very very small, and very very immense all at the same time.
The United States of America, an white majority nation with a speckled past, has elected the son of an immigrant, who is half black and half white, who four years ago was just a state senator as our leader.
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