Barack Obama is the President Elect of United States of America.

I am terribly relieved.

I am terribly relieved for my daughter, an American by birth and therefore a participant in the democratic experiment that is the United States of America.

I am sad for the stances that public relations and marketing forced John and Cindy McCain into representing things that they do not believe in.

I am sad that such predjudiced and irrational realities inspire so much fear. 

I pray that my daughter can live in a world where rational discussion is treasured. Where humanist values are protected and are not dismissed and indicted as a radical threat. Where partipaction in critical discourse is not an indictment.

Allow her that. Where inter-human relationships are based upon rational discourse.

Please.

Thanks for the timely reminder, Eye Spider! Better start getting ready everyone! It’s the best holiday of the year!