Warmest congratulations, President-Elect Obama. Not just on your victory, but on the unprecedented voter turnout your historic campaign generated. You may have done more to restore America’s faith in the electoral process than any other presidential candidate in history. You got people to care. You got people to vote. You got people to stop taking their right to elect their representatives for granted. Whether loved or hated, revered or reviled, trusted or feared, you made people care. You engaged Americans of every stripe to participate in the greatest political experiment in history. For that alone, you deserve our respect, and at the very least a standing ovation. Our hat also goes out to Senator McCain for putting up such a great fight for all these months and making such an honorable speech last night. You are both great Americans, wonderful statesmen, and examples to us all. Thank you both for elevating the game at such a crucial time in our country’s history, when we so desperately needed to be inspired and moved to act. America couldn’t have asked for better candidates in ’08.
President-Elect Obama, it’s your turn to lead us now – Republicans, Democrats and independents alike. All 305,579,683 of us. All you have to do now is stay true to yourself, stay the course, and make us proud.
Cheers, baby. You did it!
Well said Oliver…
PE Obama was able to do something that hasn’t been done in 100 years – get people to vote. People voted for his charisma and against hit policies/ideals. Every 4 years our country goes through a process to elect a the President – a process that is more divisive than any other event in our history. Presidential elections bring out the emotional, rational, irrational, genius and ignorance in all of us. It is an event that SHOULD galvanize us as a country, because no matter who wins, each and every American should support its leader. For the record, I am a supporter of John McCain, but PE Obama deserves the supprot and respect from all of us. I will be even more impressed if he can pull off a majority of his campaign promises…
Jon M
That’s the spirit!
But hey, feel free to disagree with your leaders when their decisions don’t make you happy. Freedom of speech is there for a reason.
Thanks a bunch for the comment!
I look forward to seeing how Senator McCain will continue to shine as a Senate leader. I always liked the guy.
AND, the beauty of this process is we get a chance to make changes every 2 and 4 years.