scared yet?

so we're 6 days away from this historical election--6 days from no more polls, no more commercials, no more mudslinging, and best of all, no more worrying whether people are falling for the okie doke that is mccain/palin.
somehow, life after november 4 seems a little surreal--a kind of, 'now what?'
over the past few days i've heard a few people express fear--i mean, we aren't surprised that the voting machines are acting up (we've seen that before), we know the republicans are shady as ever when they're desperate, and we know that mccain sounds a little too ominous and confident when he says he's sure he's going to win but what we're really secretly afraid of is whether our beloved b-rack will make it to inauguration day.
b-rack is, as always, as cool as the other side of the pillow. he seems to have all the confidence in the world in the secret service and even seems to laugh in the face of the danger--calling these skinhead groups marginalized and saying they aren't really representative of anything at all. but with all of the news about the latest plot on his life, and so close to election day, the initial fear that many black people felt when he first started emerging as a viable candidate is coming back. is america--even the craziest parts--ready for a black president? and how many people are there who are willing to kill him rather than see him run this country? we have seen how mccain rallies look like kkk meetings and heard mccain back his 'patriotic supporters' as they yell 'kill him'--is it naive to think these people will stick to chanting and pouting if--wait, when (yes we can!) mccain loses?
i have said before that i think the black community would feel especially guilty if anything happened to barack--we have been a little nervous from the beginning, our history is filled with moments of watching the ones who stand too tall get chopped down, but we shook that off and pushed him because of all he stands for and hope that this is the 'brighter day' we longed for. i guess we're supposed to take our cue from the man himself--if he's not scared, then we shouldn't let our fears dampen our support. . .after all, there has never been anything false about hope ;)
*prayers for barack, michelle, sasha, and malia*