I just woke up to my first political nightmare.  Okay, the day was Nov. 5, 2008 and some how I had overslept 2-3 days missing the election day and the pre/post election day to awaken in my dream to the frightening news that Barack Obama did not win the 2008 presidential election, and the person who had won the election was (get this) Hillary Clinton. Yes Hillary Clinton had won the 2008 Presidential election. and as I was wondering in my head how this could have happen, and trying to think of what had went down in the election world while I was sleeping.

I went to my mom's room  (somehow I was living back with my parents again) where my mom was sitting up on her bed watching the TV that was showing some post election coverage celebration of Hillary Clinton at some outdoor football field celebrating there with Chelsea Clinton and a crowd of her supporters.  My mother who was a Hillary Clinton supporter prior to her dropping out didn't look too upset at the outcome. I had asked her what had happened on Election Day and had learned that it had turned out that Hillary’s name was on the ballot somehow along side the option for Barack Obama and she had received more votes than him over Obama against John McCain. John McCain had won the state of Michigan and Florida but had ultimately lost.  Hillary had taken away votes from both McCain and (obviously) Barack Obama.

At hearing this news from my mom I was getting this sick feeling in my stomach thinking that even though it was a Democrat who had won the election and not McCain, I was feeling we (the party) still lost. It was the same familiar aching pain that I had got when John Kerry had lost in 2004 all coming back, and I thinking to myself at the thought of another 4 more years. I began to get really upset thinking  back the Primary season of how Clinton had campaigned against Obama so negatively and coming to realization that she has now won the Presidential election somehow that was suppose to be just Obama versus McCain. I clinched my fist and spouted off to mom in anger telling her that it had to be racism that played in Barack’s defeat as evidence to the amount of loops that Obama had to jump through this election season just to get to where he was at, only to be hung up and shammed at the end with this surprise election result.

At this point I began to want to know what were Obama’s thoughts or comments about this election outcome, what did he say during his concession speech. To my wonderment I had noticed that the media wasn’t mentioning much about him at this point and was only covering Hillary and her post victory.  I quickly returned to my room to get on to my computer to check the internet to read the headlines from the political sites trying to grasp the thought  of President Hillary....and how she somehow had done it, and I how I missed the whole thing. I noticed I was having trouble getting onto the internet and that’s when I awoke from this chilling dream. 



Relieved that this nightmare had turned out to be just a dream. [sighs of relief]