So... I haven't posted in a while. No one reads my blog anyway.

It's amazing the difference a couple months make. I mean... just read the crap I spewed in my older blogs. It went from insightful and well thought out blogs to some poor sap crying poor me in to his computer. Well... a few months ago I said enough of that garbage. I changed my way of thinking. I participated in what will probably go down as the greatest election of my life time. Wow! I've voted three times in my life and I will tell you right now that I was never more sure of my decision when I pushed that red button as I was this time around. I voted for Bush in 2000... sorry about that. I did it because my father would have. I voted for Kerry in 2004 not because I like Kerry that much. I had just had enough of Bush. 2008, however, my heart was full and my mind was clear. I knew what this country needed even if it didn't. I have suffered the slings and arrows of some of my family and I've been subjected to the eye rolls of people who found out that I voted for Obama. Once, in Arkansas where my grand parents live, I heard an old man as my cousin who he voted for. When my cousin asked him why he needed to know, the old man's response was, "Because if you voted for Obama, you have to leave."

Well... let me just say that there are no thank yous necessary.

Maybe I drank the kool-aid, but, I've never felt more proud as I did many times throughout the campaign. There was the moment at the convention when Hillary Clinton moved to have Obama nominated unanimously out of acclimation, the moment when Pennsylvania was called for Obama and we all knew that it was going to be an early night, the victory speech in Chicago, and then yesterday, as he uttered, "...so help me, God."

Yeah... I feel good. Hail to the Chief, indeed.