The election is over!

[ladybugadria]

YAY

Comments

[shannona]

Yay for being a good example of how to handle a defeat!

This is why I love being a Republican.

[ladybugadria]

well... except for a couple of Repulicans I know are already doing the racist, ugly thing and the anti-American "not my president" thing.
Ugh

I remain ever hopeful and ever joyful.

I think you said it well too... Respect the office... even if you don't respect the man.

[shannona]

Well, we'll just have to be a good example for them and make them STFU.

:D

[kuroshii]

I think McCain's concessions speech was the classiest, most respectful and most gracious one that I've ever heard. (I wish the folks in his audience had taken his lead, though, and not booed or catcalled throughout) It reminded me of the deep respect I once had for him that I had lost during the campaign. The respect came back with the sentence containing "my former opponent, my future president." :)

If McCain had stayed true to himself throughout, rather than let the GOP leaders twist him into some kind of lizard man on the attack, this would have been a different election. Oh, I think Obama most likely still would have won...but it wouldn't have been the landslide we saw last night. He would have squeaked.

I was very happy to see both of them STRESS that we all have the same goal, really, just different ways we think we should go about it...and that we CAN work together ("yes we can!") to find common ground to solve this country's many problems.

[shannona]

Yes, when he said that "my former opponent, my future President"

I cried.

It was beautiful. And so true.

I think the race to the election was tooo too long... and got too heated. No one got to be himself. Not Obama. Not McCain. They were both just togs in their respective party wheels... makes it hard to decide.