Happy!
Unless you’ve just come out of a two-year case of amnesia you know. The world knows. America has repudiated the last eight years and elected Obama through a massive turnout and decisive electoral victory. In a gracious and conciliatory speech, Senator John McCain conceded last night. While he acted with dignity his crowd did not and booed Obama’s name before he stopped them.
President-Elect Obama gave his acceptance speech in Chicago at Grant Park last night after accepting calls from both Sen. McCain and President Bush. The President told the President-Elect, “What an awesome night for you”.
After eight years of the Bush administration, and years before of having a Governor Bush, my wife and I feel light. A weight has been lifted off of all of our shoulders. We all have regained the country of our ideals and are once again moving toward higher principles instead of away from our fears. We again have the American of our dreams and not of our nightmares.
As President-Elect Obama (I love typing that phrase) made most clear. This is not the end but the start of the work. We have two wars, an economy close to meltdown, and major environmental issues. None of this can or will be solved quickly. It’s taken us many years to create these problems and will take many to solve them. Those are posts for another day.
We now have the possibility of solving those problems. So today I am happy.
November 5th, 2008 at 20:51
Me too!!