President Barack Obama: What Will You Do for Cornell? And Other Such Matters…
Monday, November 17th, 2008In Honor of the Presidential Election, our wonderful blogger Andrew Wolf (of Newsmaker) has created a cross post on the election and its impact on Cornell and our country.
It was just one of those moments. Time stood still, and everything began anew. Long before midnight, just seconds after the polls closed in California, Barack Hussein Obama was elected president of the United States of America. As I stepped onto College Ave., car horns were honking, strangers were hugging, and fireworks were sent loudly into the sky. Half an hour later standing in one of Collegetown’s many half rate bars, we all crammed around the television as Obama took to the stage and gave a beautiful and beautifully orchestrated victory speech.
It was, of course, hardly a victory speech. It was a presidential speech. The Obama campaign would not let anyone into the park with an Obama sign. You were only given an American flag or nothing at all. The stage had no symbols from his campaign but merely a stoic line of Old Glories.
