Congratulations for the NEW President ! Go Barack go !

[Gemini Cricket]

Hello, Chicago.
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.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

I can't tell you how happy I was to hear this portion of Obama's speech. It blew me away!


The bold-ing is mine.

[wendybeth]

I think DLRP deserves to start his own election thread- the people of the world have a vested interest in our national elections, and I'm happy to hear that they seem to approve.


It is interesting that the international markets took off on the news of the election outcome- it would seem the rest of the world shares our in our hope.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I can't tell you how happy I was to hear this portion of Obama's speech. It blew me away

Heheh, right before he bungled with "disabled and ...... um, er, not disabled."

Low point goof in an otherwise great acceptance speech.