OK, Collective Exhale...

A couple days late, sure, but isn't that symbolic in itself? It's been a pretty wild and wooly election, one of the most hardly fought in history, and to be perfectly honest I could not tear my eyes away from it in order to update this ole project. Sorry. But truth be told, not sure if we can compete with the big dogs, trying as we are to refrain from partisanship, which is kind of the order of the day.

That said:

It is truly a fantastic time to be an American. For a long time now, our mainstream media has been pummeling us with assumptions, that the result on Election Day would never have been possible with a divided, latently racist, lazy, disinterested and moronic electorate. We've been told that we'd never elect a black man. We've been told that he's scary, he's a mystery, that he has secret plans and secret friends and is definitely not a friend of us. Even his name became ambiguously threatening.

But like Fox News' Brit Hume said, all those accusations didn't add up to what we saw on the screen. Not by a longshot. And by a notable margin, we the people showed those that make a living telling us about ourselves that they really don't know a damn thing. People came together across ideological, racial and class divides to cast a vote in favor of a truly amorphous idea- change. What does it mean? There's as many answers to that as there are people. But with that vote, Americans nationwide put their foot down in favor of change, and in essence declared their great faith in themselves and their countrymen to come together. We demand it of our government, and each other, so that we all may prosper.

For all the subplots and deeper meanings, that's what this election meant to me. It meant an open opportunity to get to work. It means a president who is open and willing to hearing what everyone has to say, as opposed to one who seeks the approval of 50% plus one. If you have an idea, the president-elect wants to hear it. So bend his ear. Let him know. We are all in this together, now. It's all on us.

So I ask you all, let's get ready to roll up our sleeves. Don't retreat back into the living room, whether you knocked on doors for either candidate, in self-satisfied elation or bitterness. We need to get to work. There's a lot of things that need fixing in our beautiful land, and there is no time to lose. I, for one, am chomping at the bit to get down with it. Let's go.