Yes We Can

I wanted to get my thoughts down now, before sleep dulls them.

There was nothing (at the national level) that didn't go perfectly tonight. My home state was the domino that called it for Obama. He has surpassed 300 electoral votes and may pass 350--a landslide. More than 50% of the vote--a mandate.

McCain was extraordinarily classy in his concession speech. His crowd was, well, the crowd that his campaign cultivated. They were not classy.

Obama was... pretty much as he always is. Amazing. Humble and exceedingly aware of the tasks before us. Inspiring, even. Did you see Jesse Jackson with tears in his eyes?

The coming weeks and months may dull this feeling, as "politics" takes over, at least to a certain degree.

But right now, I've got hope for America, for the first time in my entire life. That our country and our world might finally move in a positive direction, instead of scraping out an existence, trying not to slip back into the dark ages.

It is probably uncharacteristically naive of me. But look at what we did; in spite of our best efforts to screw this up, we elected the right man for the job. And more than that, we etched a permanent achievement in our history, one that cannot be undone no matter how the next 4-8 years turn out.

Thank you, America, for doing the right thing.