My daughter is as thrilled to wake to a world of Barack Obama even though her friends’ parents tell them that “Obama is a baby-killing Muslim and will likely be killed because he’s black.”

“Abraham Lincoln was killed, John Kennedy was killed, someone tried to kill Ronald Reagan and they were all white men,” I told her. “Every President is at risk.”

“But, what if that happens?”

“Then Joe Biden is a qualified good man who will be our President.”

“What color is he?”

“White.”

“You know Barack Obama is half white and half black. He will help us heal our country’s racism,” I continued.

“He’s half white?”

“Yes, he has a white mommy and a black daddy, like our friend Neeny.”

“You know, Obama also has two little girls around your age – Mallia and Sasha. We’ll get to watch them grow up in The White House.”

Today, though my daughter does not see a woman take the highest office in the land as I had hoped, she does get to witness a healing in the nation.

A nation that wants to be in hope and optimism because the oppression of fear was bad for the entire planet’s emotional health.

Smell that? It’s a hopeful future.

I almost forgot what it tasted like.

We’ve got nothing to complain about and everything be joyful over. It will take hard work and some money to dig ourselves out and recover – but Yes, We Can.

We are now a country where the words, All Men are Created Equal, are no longer hallow.

We are liberated from our tainted and embarrassing racial history.

I’m looking every day for ways to liberate us from our gender inequity as well – for our daughters’ sakes – and for our own.

God Bless AMERICA!

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What are you doing here?

Vote With Your Daughter!

Our kids will be up all night with us at the Democratic Headquarters Party. We’ll be munching Pizza, drinking champagne and watching election results.

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I received most comments about the Dalmatian, a handmade thrift store and black marker costume.

The costume was submitted by Angela White of Breastfeeding 1-2-3. She’s won a great Seagate Go Portable Hard Drive.
Congratulations.

Keep it or gift it?

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Bride of Frankenstein

Cheetah

Ok, I’m no longer taking entries in the contest. I’ll give you a few hours to leave comments voting on all the entries I published over the weekend and then I’ll announce the winner of the Seagate Go Portable Hard Drive.

Quick jumps on these posts:

Here’s a photo of us: We’re Chinese. Picked them up in San Francisco’s Chinatown this summer.

I also took a photo of the town’s costume contest and here’s what I can report.

The little girls were not dressed provocatively or in an overtly sexual way.

There were Princesses, Hannah Montanas, Super Womans, Gabriellas, and Charpeis, Cowgirls and Indians, etc. And while they were very “pretty” and “beautiful” and overtly “feminine” and “girly” – they were also modestly dressed.

Pretty, beautiful and overtly feminine and girly do not equate to “sexy,” “provocative,” “slutty,” “hootchy” or “sexual.”

I saw 2 very provocative costumes on older teenagers (their mothers were likely hiding at home in shame and horror) and one inappropriately short minidress on a mother who dragged that black velvet dress from her own adolescence, I’m sure. (I had one in the ’90s too.)

I realize my small East Texas town isn’t indicative of the whole of America so I’m curious – did you see inappropriately dressed little girls? What about them struck you as inappropriate?

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Pirates, Bunnies, Kittens and Monsters? Oh MY!

Renaissance Princess

Rocket and Ferris Wheel (Sooo Clever!)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Pirate

Number 2 Pencil & friends

Sweet Watermelon

Pink Poodle

Little Lovelies

Leave a comment voting on your favorites.

See the other entrants on Real Girls Costumes.

I’ll run the contest through the weekend allowing parents to email their Trick-or-Treating photos (traceesioux@yahoo.com). I’ll give away the $150 Seagate FreeAgent GO Portable Hard Drive on Monday morning.

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