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Congratulation America !

You have chosen the best man to your president.



I'm not sure he will be so good as his supporters hope, but I'm sure he will be better than his opponents fear.

A great moment
I woke up at 5 o'clock this night and just had to see in TV, if there were some results of the election. Shortly after it was announced that it was now for sure that Obama would be the next president, and I cried together with Jesse Jackson and other Americans, when I heard it.

The Danish reporter, who had been in USA for a longer time and always had stayed very neutral in her reports, said : It's a historic moment. The choice of Obama SENDS A SIGNAL to the rest of the world that in USA it's possible to grow up under straitened circumstances, to be an African-American and yet be the president. It's the American dream when it's best, and that's how we love the Americans-when they are able to try to do something new, to give change a chance.

Wasn't it beautiful words?

Also I want to say thank you because you have allowed me- an outsider, but a very interested one- to participate in the debate.

Best wishes for the future!

Linne

Thank you linne.

Thank you, and you are not an outsider. We are one world. A momentous and wonderful night!

From the NY Times:

GAZA — From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where such a thing happens.

From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where such a thing happens.

Yes, isn't it just fantastic. I get tears in my eyes reading the words even though I'm not an American.
Perhaps because I believe that many in the world are thinking in the same way, and a lot of people get hope for a better future.

Linne

Thanks Linne.
It is a victory for the politics of hope that we will have to work hard to ensure is not squandered or abused, but thrives and grows sensibly.

We pray that our new President does not yield to hubris but brings the temperament, intellectual vigor, and competence to the critical tasks of unifying us as one indivisible nation to solve our problems here in the USA, and to not only project strength abroad, but to restore respect, good will, and instill global cooperation on threats to freedom, human suffering, and the environment. We cannot do it alone. So lets bring a renewed spirit of cooperation and compromise to the community table, to the national table, to the global table, and roll up our sleeves, and get it done. Because once again, America proved that anything is possible.

Thanks Linne

Your insights and perspective is valuable. For myself, I feel a kind of hope that I haven't felt in decades. Actually, four decades. 40 years ago, just before Bobby turned to leave the podium.

Thank you Linne.
Sometimes it does work the way it's supposed to. Almost everyone here on St. John is walking around with big smiles and tears in their eyes today. I've certainly never experienced this level of emotional involvement by the people in my lifetime. Yes, a lot of it is symbolic, but there is certainly real substance behind the symbol. I hope we can be respected for some traits other than our massive armaments...that is real, deserved respect.

I feel privledged to have a ringside seat to this moment in history.

Juan Williams had a beautiful moment last night when he got choked up with these words:

"This is truly an incredible moment of American history. I can't think of another country in the world where you could have a significant minority that was once so maligned and so oppressed finally have one of its sons rise to this level. This is ah... I don't care how you feel about him politically, on some level you have to say this is America at its grandest, the potential, the possibility, and what it says for our children. Black and white, the image of Barack Obama and those little girls in the Rose Garden in these years to come. I think it's just stunning."

This election has changed my country and the world as we know it. My children will live in a different world because of this man. If that doesn't give you pause then nothing can. I am 35 and this is THE defining moment of my generation.

We have alot of work ahead of us. but I truly believe as President Elect Obama said that 'we will do this' not just him.
I was reminded when I was listening to him speak last night of Gandi and when he said
'be the change you wish to see in the world'.

I have to had such a big smile on my face all morning.

it's really amazing.
we've had emails or phone calls from colleagues in italy, France, Denmark and England
all so psyched about Obama

I have been somewhat lukewarm toward Obama since the beginning. Hillary was my gal. I have worked with the Clintons, and I think both of them care very much about all of us, and they will have my support in whatever they do. Along the way, I have discovered I like Obama. I think he wants to be a uniter, and that's what we need right now.

I've liked his policies. He's given me hope as an American. It wasn't until I was talking with a young African American kid at work last night, when I realized that the hope he's given me ain't nothing. Maybe being in Tennessee where old habits die hard, I didn't realize how truly monumental this whole thing was. It is a HUGE deal for America to elect a black man.

Nashville has two HCBUs here in town, Tennessee State University and Fisk University. Last night the students of Tennessee State took to the streets and marched to through town to Fisk to meet the students there. As they walked through the streets, dorm by dorm joined them. As I watched that on the news, I realized that a new day is dawning on America. And, I cried.

Now I see what Michelle Obama meant about being proud of her country.

I saw a hand-made poster made with markers on a plain white board displayed at a Harlem celebration last night in New York:

Rosa Sat

so that

Martin Could Walk

so that

Barack Could Run

so that our

Children Can Fly

That says it all for me.

JIM

jimg20 wrote:I saw a hand-made poster made with markers on a plain white board displayed at a Harlem celebration last night in New York:

Rosa Sat

so that

Martin Could Walk

so that

Barack Could Run

so that our

Children Can Fly

That says it all for me.

JIM

that is beautiful.
thank you so much for posting that

I'm going to cry again. I have to stop crying, but for some reason at about 11 p.m. last night it all hit me and I've been overtaken with emotion.

Lulu76 wrote:I'm going to cry again. I have to stop crying, but for some reason at about 11 p.m. last night it all hit me and I've been overtaken with emotion.

No kidding? You and the other 63 million that voted for him.