What an incredible day it was yesterday. I don't know about you, but it was the first time I've cried tears of happiness on an election night or during an acceptance speech.
Everywhere so many people seem to be overwhelmed with emotion. Gratitude, thankfulness, relief, hope - for our children, for our villages, towns, and cities, for our states, for our country, for our place in the world.
My new little town, Smalltown, is in a rural county where SIXTY percent of the vote was for Obama. That, my friends, is a miracle.
Senator McCain gave a very gracious concession speech. I only wish those in the crowd of his supporters had responded in kind.
Come January 20th, I hope we're all going to be ready to work.
Like he said, "The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
Amen.
The future's so bright.
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Hooray! I honestly don't know a single person over here who wasn't rooting for that result. I actually stayed up watching it for longer than I ever do for UK elections - but maybe that's because we don't count ours anything like as quickly. Well done America!
Although the California Proposition 8 vote made me very sad indeed.
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