A Night To Remember
I'll have a lot more to say about the momentous events of tonight in due course, but for now I'm just trying to soak it all in.
I've never been more proud to be an American.
UPDATE: Watching Obama's victory speech was a surreal moment. I felt like I was watching a movie. I still can't believe that this is really happening.
I've never been more proud to be an American.
UPDATE: Watching Obama's victory speech was a surreal moment. I felt like I was watching a movie. I still can't believe that this is really happening.
posted by A.L. at 11:36 PM
10 Comments:
Well done America!
You have taken the first steps to returning your nation back to a country that is respected worldwide..
OBAMA!
How sweet it is!
landdownunder, thanks for that. It would be foolhardy to claim Obama will never make a mistake. But on his worst day, Obama won't be a close-minded, ill-informed twit and a constant embarrassment.
Ref McCain's gracious concession, one in our party said "If that had been his message during the campaign, I might still have voted for him"
Looking forward to that new day, of proudly facing the world's problems TOGETHER.
From an Irishman:
Congratulations, USA, once again you have amazed the world!
I think this will send America's popularity skyrocketing in a way you have not seen since 9/11. We know that George W. Bush threw away that goodwill.
Please, President-elect Obama, use that mutual benevolence to initiate a new era in international relations.
An incredible evening...I still can't believe the long nightmare is over. Champagne has never tasted so good!
Now the real work begins. Ours is a very damaged nation and we must do everything we can to begin the healing. God bless Obama and the United States of America. Lets go forward together.
Peace
What a wondrous leap. We have gone from the very worst to the very best of ourselves, in the single heartbeat from one historical moment and the next.
Today we celebrate the beginning of all we hoped for, and worked for, and suffered to create. We have, without the slightest doubt, rediscovered and reinvented America, together.
We rose to meet that greatest of collective occasions: the sublime opportunity to transcend the darkness of old ignorance.
>From the depths of our own hard-won common understanding, we have selected that rarest of humans- a genuinely wise leader.
Barack Obama sustained belief in our essential decency and wholeness, even when we had lost that belief in ourselves.
He knew the buried truth of us so deeply that we found it again in ourselves. And now that essential goodness is made manifest, solid, and certain.
We hereby have ratified a bold new declaration: the Declaration of Interdependence. No matter what happens next, and no matter how hard the journey, we are already changed immeasurably for the better. We know it, and the whole world knows it with us.
1. The long nightmare is not over, there is just an end in sight. We still have to watch Mr Bush for the next couple months.
2. I can't ever think of a time in my short life that I was actually proud to be a US citizen. Today I can say - in one aspect anyway - I love this country.
A.L., Many thanks for all your efforts to bring about this deserved result.
a left-leaning black guy named barack hussein obama has been decisively elected president by US voters.
nope. still hasn't really hit me yet. i'll believe it january 20th.
When McCain gave his concession speech, it was on the whole gracious and affirming. However, at the beginning he framed Obama's win as a victory for minorities, not a victory for all of us. It was the blacks, the Asians, the Hispanics etc who elected him. It was "their" turn. Left unsaid but clearly implied: it was not "our" victory.
I couldn't disagree more. I'm a middle-aged white guy without a college degree and a moderate income (the McCain demographic on papter) - and Obama will be MY president. For the first time since I was paying attention we'll have a president who reflects *me* and *my* values and ideals, and even exceeds them. I've seen this sentiment expressed over and over again among from friends and family - this is a president (elect) who represents US.
This is a fantastic win, even for all those folks in McCain's audience.
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