Bernews headlinesJust in case you missed it, Barack Obama’s brilliant moving election night acceptance speech is worth seeing in full. Bold, gracious, statesmanlike and above all, more inspiring than any American politician since Kennedy. Even my politically-agnostic teenaged daughter said it made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. What a contrast to that illiterate idiot Bush and our own rude, divisive and arrogant Premier.
Change has ineed come – and not before time.
President-Elect Barack Obama … it still sounds scarcely believable. The nation that in its stupidity voted in Dubya, not once but twice, finally came to its senses and in doing so created history. It was a privilege to watch this historic moment for America, minorities, and the world when an African-American who was unknown four years ago has achieved a truly astonishing political feat. The audacity of hope indeed. He will not and can never be a perfect President or fulfill the unrealistic expectations people will have of him. But I hope he restores much-needed dignity and integrity to the United States and the office of President. In my lifetime I have never been more optimistic about an American presidency. As Obama just said on TV: change has come to a country where all things are indeed possible.
Yes we can? Yes he did.
With just a few hours to go, here’s hoping that Americans finally do the right thing and make history by electing Barack Obama President. They couldn’t possibly screw it up a third time, could they?
Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan sums up why he – a conservative – is backing Obama tomorrow in a post today on The Daily Dish:
Obama, moreover, seems to bring out the best in people, and the calmest, and the sanest. He seems to me to have a blend of Midwestern good sense, an intuitive understanding of the developing world that is as much our future now as theirs’, an analyst’s mind and a poet’s tongue. He is human. He is flawed. He will make mistakes. His passivity and ambiguity are sometimes weaknesses as well as strengths.
But there is something about his rise that is also supremely American, a reminder of why so many of us love this country so passionately and are filled with such grief at what has been done to it and in its name. I endorse Barack Obama because I will not give up on America, because I believe in America, and in her constitution and decency and character and strength.
And the world needs that America now as much as it ever has. Can we start that healing, that rebirth, tomorrow?
Yes. We. Can.
Enough said. Do the right thing tomorrow, America – for humanity’s sake.
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