If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Barack Obama
What a great night! What a speech! What a great gift of hope!
The whole world was watching, and we did it. We can raise our heads and be proud of our president once again. President-elect Obama ran a masterful campaign. My hope is that his presidency will be as successful, that he will use those same gifts that brought him to the presidency to turn our country around to head in the right direction toward a fairer and more just society.
YES, WE DID!
I echo your hopes, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteHe will only be as successful as we help him be. Yes. WE. can. have A New Day!
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonderful day for America!!
ReplyDeleteAmen to rev ss.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. To us all!
ReplyDeleteI think McCains speach was good too! Not the least Change, in my opinion...
I am glad that we have Barack Obama as our new president elect. I look to the future with more hope. This is a great day in our country.
ReplyDeleteThe whole world was watching and listening and we are all celebrating with you.
ReplyDeleteGood for the rest of us too!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful news.
Yes, excellent news for the whole world.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain gave a gracious and generous speech. We must be gracious in victory.
ReplyDeleteRather like awaking from the bad dreams of a long, dark night, isn't it ? :)
ReplyDeleteIt was a very emotional night, my mother and sister were in the crowd at Grant Park. What an awesome victory. My best friend Pam and I knew things were going to be fine, once we saw Karl Rove talking on Fox early in the evening about the Obama Administration. We kept waiting for him to shrug his shoulders and say, "Hey, you can only rig so many voting machines..."
ReplyDeleteBlessed Be!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful day! But my dear - that dress!?
ReplyDeleteI agree about the dress!
ReplyDeleteIf the McCain who spoke last night were the McCain who ran for president, would the result have been different?
Finally we can pray for a Supreme Court justice or two who value all Americans.
Hey, I like the dress! And the kids get a puppy to take with them. I wish it were all going to be so easy...
ReplyDeleteNo celebration here. Yes, I am pleased he won, in a detached way. Obviously.
ReplyDeleteBut the arc of justice has just evaporated as far as I'm concerned and religious bigotry reigns supreme in the state of California.
And President-elect Obama's own words were used to make that happens.
It's as though the electorate said, "Yes we can, but no, YOU can't."
IT
In my channel surfing last night, I came across the PBS Charlie Rose show where I heard a great line from Bernard-Henri Levi:
ReplyDeleteRosa Parks sat, Martin Luther King walked, Barack Obama ran, and America flies.
That's when my tears started.
I'm with you, IT.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the Republicans were repudiated quite soundly. Barack Obama was clearly the better choice.
But I will not forget that Barack Obama has said that it is his religion that prevents him from promoting equal treatment under the law to GLBT American citizens. Because of that I cannot share in the elation so many others have today.
IT, it's coming, it's coming. I know it's coming. We must not give up hope. We must not give up the fight.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was craven for Obama to oppose gay marriage. No doubt, it was done for political expediency, but I'm still greatly relieved, and yes, happy, that Obama was elected. Consider the alternative.
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