This weekend saw a new era dawn in Amarillo. For those who bore witness the landscape was utterly changed and a beckoning future embraced.
Democrats and Independents drove for miles and stood in line for hours, not by the tens or hundreds but by the thousands. Even Republicans tired of fear mongering and divisiveness came to hear a new message.
In an extraordinary turn former President Clinton came to speak in the Yellow City, a city so flaming red it is openly thought John McCain is a wimp, that Muslim men, women and children should be tortured, the Islamic world nuked, illegal immigrants drowned, blacks be kept in their place and Democrats live in burrows.
Yet to this singular Republican strong-hold, immobile and forbidding, revolution did storm and tear asunder ancient convention.
Progress, once scorned and elusive, did arrive. It was brilliant. It was captivating. It was magisterial. We chosen had lived to see recorded the most momentous event in Amarillo history: Kanelis had purchased a cell phone.
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