What a day. History being made.
After voting, I celebrated with a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a local street vendor. Mustard and onions. America, baby.
Let’s take this country for a spin and see what it can do!
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Yeah, let’s!
^_^J.
Great pic…wish I was in the next car w/ them!
Today, Americans are finally showing what we are made of!
Like, particles? 😉
^_^J.
…from the dark sector. But its alright – here we don’t hold it againt them.
Whew! Thank goodness. I turns out the U.S. has moral fiber after all. Now I can get back to my normal life, content that a sane election has finally happened.
Honestly, this is probably the most exciting moment of my life.
America has redemmed itself (for many things) tonight…
So lets hope Obama adopts sane economic policy and doesn’t take the rout as a carte blanche to spend spend spend like Bush did. Some of us voted for him b/c we felt he was the best suited amongst the two to keep a moderate (not extreme, one way or the other) tax policy and to balance the budget.
Congrats America! You’ve shown the flexibility that we all thought you had. Moral fiber – yep. Hope you go light-years ahead in Science and technology. You’ve got some serious challenges and real opponents – ones that grew these last 8 years. Hope you lead the world again the right way. Hope there’s a real rational approach to the decisions you make. Hope you’ve finally entered the 21st century after ushering the rest of us in. Good luck!
Excellent, gracious speech by McCain.
Fantastic! The long national nightmare is over. Obama will be a great president. Now I can consider moving back someday 🙂
Indeed Sean, in his speech tonight, McCain was finally what I thought was the real McCain.
To me, the most poignant TV moment, was a shot of Jesse Jackson, just as a single person in the massive crowd at Grant Park, with tears streaming down his cheeks. Not that I’m a huge JJ fan, but it was clear from his face that he was overwhelmed, and moved to tears, that the thing he had fought for his whole life had actually happened.
I’m so happy with America tonight!
Congratulations America!
Pop the champaigne bottles people — it happened. An eight year national mini-dark age is over.
L. C.
Thank you very much for restoring my confidence in you, America. Just remembered why I came to study in this country… It has been a looong time, though….
Well done USA. Up here in Canada, Obama would have taken about 85% of the popular vote, so we are breathing a big sigh of relief.
I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlords
He gotta win, he taught in U of C for crissakes.
A truly great and historic night for our country. But we wake up tomorrow with tremendous challenges ahead. I hope that we all can work together to make this a better, safer, and more humane planet.
e.
Magnificent speech by Obama.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/5/0510/83437/390/653543
Congrats again, America! Dont think, Run with this!
McCain’s concession speech was great. It reminded me that I once thought, like, here’s a decent guy who’s in the wrong party, or in the right party but at the wrong time, and stuff. But the reaction of the crowd, well, that was different. It looked as if that McCain wasn’t the McCain they would have wanted to win the election.
Sad.
^_^J.
McCains position was always sad. He knew he couldn’t win as the person he really is (eg the 2k centrist version) so had to sell his soul to even stand a chance. Eg pander to the right, and go negative.
Honestly, I think a lot of liberals did a great disservice to the country in the long run by demonizing the guy, as much as his campaign was distasteful (and it was). He is still about as good a candidate fundamentally as the R party has produced in a long time.
So instead, all thats going to happen is they’re going to go right back to being uber conservative and picking a Palin or a Huckabee in 4 years (disenfranchising the remaining center right people).
I am convinced it is not in the US’s interest to have an extreme right wing party.
Hard to imagine but even here, in Poland, we were excited by this elections;) Hope this mean change not only for US but hole world!
I had accepted years ago that I had just become jaded and cynical about American politics. I’m a staunch conservative, but even I had become extremely disillusioned with the state of our country, our government, and America’s global presence. It’s very painful to watch the decline of a great Republic at the hands of a sub-par President.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I found myself swept up in a huge swell of pride, joy, and amazement this morning when I heard that Sen. Obama had won the election. It felt good, it felt strange, it felt like hope.
We are riding the wave of a major change, please let’s do what we can to live up to the promise we’ve made to ourselves.
It is time to enjoy a little schadenfreude. Of course the really tough time is ahead. Obama has one hell of a mess to clean up.
Lawrence B. Crowell