> Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> There is one thing that Obama has done that truly, at last
> addresses our
> grief. He calls for a national spirit of sacrifice,
> finally ending the
> arrogance of leadership that urged us to live life as usual
> -- go shopping!
> -- while others carried the burdens of national defense...
> ...We have a new leader
> who is involved with humanity and who leads others to be so
> involved, though success and failure, life and death.
>
> I am proud of what we have begun and look forward, yes, to
> what we can do.
My first reaction when I heard that McCain had conceded* was relief; joyful
anticipation came later. I talked with Dad, who wished that my mother had been
alive to see this day; she would have been very pleased and proud also.
Obama's acknowledgement that we are at the beginning of what will be a hard
slog I thought honest and realistic; the announcement that there will be a new
puppy in the White House a lovely touch of whimsy.
*McCain's concession speech was very much a class act; I did not think he would
be a particularly good president, but he is a good man.
Debbi
'Help us O-ba-man - you're our only hope-
'He is not the only one - but he is the best...' Maru
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