Waking Up - The Morning After

Wednesday, Morning, November 3rd

The air is cool and the leaves are turning at this time in the City.
The sun is already up; the clocks turned back three days earlier.
It is time to get moving and ready to go to work.

How are you feeling today?

You went to bed last night before the outcome of the election was known.
In 30 seconds you’ll know.

Muscles tighten. The heart pumps. Prospects appear inside an adrenaline rush.

Bush will select three members of the United States Supreme Court.
Four more years?
These choices will affect America for the next half century.

Legalized abortion, civil rights, the right to vote, how elections are carried out.
Separation of church and state?

Managed care, child care, home care, health care, Medicare, child welfare.
Social Security, insecurity.

Terrorism, Iraq.
Global warming.
Everyone’s mental health.

John Kerry.
Known to come back to win. Counted out before the primaries.
He came from behind in his re-election for the Senate.
No excuses, but he has been the challenger up against a Well Oiled
$270 million media-campaign machine.

Swing states.
Undecideds. Non-voters.
Computerized voting. No paper trail.
Black voters presumed to be felons.
The Electoral College.
The greatest democracy in history.
Model for the world.
What does it mean, one person - one vote?

Young women. Social workers.
One in Afganistan. One in Iraq.
Insisting on women’s rights.
Life on the line.
The meaning of Courage.
Our inspiration.

Let’s find out who won.

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