RECORDING DIARY: Election Night, Toronto, Ontario Canada 2008
Here I am at the end of the recording, only two days left, but more importantly it's Election Day. It is strange not to be in my own country for the most important election in my lifetime. I voted 3 weeks ago absentee. I am glued to the polls and having a hard time concentrating here at crunch time. Upstairs in the studio the Canadians are doing something I did not expect; they are having a US election party.
They are on fire! Cheering, yelling and jumping up and down. There is no irony in any of their behavior, they know that if Obama wins, North America has the possibility to be a united and prosperous place once again. They care very much; they are rooting for us. They are making me cry when they cheer, I feel so loved and so grateful for our Canadian friends. Especially when the good citizens of America have been so villan-ized in the eyes of the world by the Bush administration's last 8 years of tyranny and imperialism. The Canadians remind me that the rest of the world knows better, they know the overwhelming majority of us want peace and happiness for all people, it is our nature as humans, the beautiful side of that nature anyway.
And it's not just Canada - - friends from all over the world, Europe, Australia, you name it... They've been sending supportive emails all week. "Good luck!", "Vote Obama!", "We're sending all our good thoughts your way..." The world still loves us; they haven't given up on us. Thank you everyone, I can't say it hard enough. Especially you Canada, bless your good heart.