No. 39027 Date 2008/11/05 17:29
P. Diddy has got the power
Obama wins!!!!!!!!!
But guess who made that all happen? No, not you, or you, or you over there. P.DIDDY made it all happen.
"I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. It was down
to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be
true, but that's how much power it felt like I had," the hip-hop mogul
said.
I think he felt too much of the brotherhood thing that it was his vote that mattered. Not a million others. Just his.
After spending much of the presidential campaign season using his star
wattage to get other people to the polls, Diddy, like other celebrity
political boosters, spent the day leading by example. He arrived at his
polling site — a school in midtown Manhattan — in the morning and
waited in line as a bevy of media prepared to capture the moment.
Diddy said he believed he was potentially making history by voting for
the first black president in U.S. history, and also felt the weight of
the past in the voting booth. "I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I
just felt like, Martin Luther King, and I felt the whole civil rights
movement, I felt all that energy, and I felt my kids," he said. "It was
all there at one time. It was a joyous moment."
So it must be a black thing. It's too touching for me. I feel like I want to cry. For joy or laughter, that's a different matter.
