{"id":3763,"date":"2008-11-04T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/11\/04\/welcome-back-america-tonight\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:37:47","slug":"welcome-back-america-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/11\/04\/welcome-back-america-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back America Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3247\/2964300895_d3a307cf8d_o.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>If the event below appeals to you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=31607817887&amp;ref=mf\">go to the Facebook event page and join<\/a>, and then invite all your people to join &#8212; especially if they&#8217;re in a different city. This is not an &#8220;organized&#8221; event &#8212; but we&#8217;ve been overhearing people asking &#8220;where will you be election night&#8221; so why not encourage a giant civic celebration? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If the rest of the planet could vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081021.wcampaignpolls22\/BNStory\/International\/home\">Barack Obama would win<\/a> the American 2008 election in an unprecedented landslide. It&#8217;s safe to say that much of the world is waiting anxiously for the Obama victory &#8212; think of the 200,000 people that saw Obama speak in Berlin last July.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has lost moral support and sympathy around the world over the last eight years. The Obama win is a chance for a new start and to patch up both its reputation and its international relationships. We need to send a big fun signal of good faith that we&#8217;re ready to have them back. Let&#8217;s do that by gathering together in our public squares to celebrate this new era and show our American friends they are not alone in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it will work: When CNN declares victory (since it&#8217;s the news organization most internationally available) head to your city or town&#8217;s main square where public celebrations usually take place. If it&#8217;s a square with a big video screen maybe they&#8217;ll broadcast results so you can go early, or watch the victory speech after. Like when your sports team wins, it&#8217;s better to celebrate in public with everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>In Toronto, head to Dundas Square. It&#8217;s got the space, those big TVs, and after every hockey championship, it is naturally filled with people.<\/p>\n<p>Though planning this before results are in risks a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dewey_Defeats_Truman\">Dewey Defeats Truman<\/a>&#8221; scenario (let&#8217;s all knock wood) it&#8217;s worth the risk. We may not agree with everything the United States does or even with all of Obama&#8217;s platform, but let&#8217;s put all that aside and, for once, celebrate America&#8217;s new start. Welcome back America!<\/p>\n<p><em>You can leave a comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/28\/welcome-back-america-november-4th-celebration\/#comments\">the original post<\/a> about this event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Invite others to join and share this group. Start threads on your local blogs or forums.<\/p>\n<p>Download and use this graphic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacing\/2964300895\/\" onmousedown=\"UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacing\/2964300895\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the event below appeals to you, go to the Facebook event page and join, and then invite all your people to join &#8212; especially if they&#8217;re in a different city. 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