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The first thing my son (who is so not a morning person) said when he woke up today, with the biggest smile on his face, was President Obama! I don't think he could have been any happier if Steven Spielberg had dropped by to talk shop. But have you noticed the number of (much) older Obama supporters who are relieved, awed, exhausted, and proud, but also unexpectedly ... quiet? As if after years of outrage, it's going to take a minute to register the enormity and import of what just happened; how is it one behaves, again, when the country appears to be setting off on the right track? When negative campaigning is not rewarded and baser instincts resisted from sea to sea? A pal with whom I've been watching election returns since our supersized shoulder-pad days came over last night, as per tradition. And this is someone who not only gave to Obama until it hurt but had been out door-knocking for him, in Virginia, every weekend for months. Yet when Ohio told the tale, we were so stunned, we never did open the vintage Dom she'd brought over. Another friend who's been working for Democratic candidates and causes his entire adult life just called to say he is wandering around in a park somewhere, not knowing what to call the way he is feeling: "I've waited so long ...'' Oh, we'll process this, I'm confident, but who knew winning wouldn't automatically compute? Maybe if I hadn't been a Cubs fan, too?
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