I just went to the Palin as President site -- it's been re-arranged to celebrate the whole Obama thing -- and it got me pretty teary.
It's playing the "Yes We Can" song, which cast me back to a year ago when he made that speech and everything that he said -- "nothing can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change," and "in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope," -- and I felt how everything that now has happened seemed then like it was too impossible to be even worth hoping for.
Only I wasn't thinking about his win, which is of course a very nice state of affairs, but about our fight for equality. It's a story that seems just as unlikely, and just as impossible; and it demands no less of our hope. It's unstoppable, and it's waiting for us, too.
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