YES WE CAN!

Sweet fancy Jesus we did it! Okay HE did it but I definitely sent positive "get yourself elected" vibes, didn't you? (at a minimum there were multiple Facebook status messages extoling his virtues and several snarky digs at Sarah Palin who is no doubt at this very moment taking out her anger on the equally folksy, snow-mobiling Todd)

Words can't express how I feel today. But music can:



As a child I remember watching the Cosby Show and feeling like maybe, just maybe, looking different or talking different didn't matter so much. Like the Huxtables, my family had five children (including one GORGEOUS little minx named Denise, thank you very much). And like Cliff and the gang we were all up in each other's business all the time. You have to understand, before the Cosby Show there was nothing on TV that even remotely captured the diversity of my tiny world in a corner of Miami. The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas...all fantastic, just not so good on the diversity thing...though Isaac the bartender WAS pretty fantastic...remember the finger guns?



I'll get off my soapbox but let me just say that as a woman and as a Latina, last night was a moment in history I will never forget. (much like the time Britney shaved her head and attacked the paparazzi with an umbrella. I KID, I KID!)

There's a change a'coming, readers. And we can choose to get on the train or watch as it leaves us in the dust. All aboard!