Lookie what we did!!!!

I’m overjoyed that Barack Obama will soon be our president, and am transfixed by his beautiful, heartfelt, and egoless acceptance speech. By now, I’m sure most everyone has seen it, but it feels right to put it up here anyway, if only to save me the trouble of searching YouTube when I want to watch it again.

The part that got me the most was President-Elect Obama’s appeal to the voters who voted Republican. “As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.”

I also loved his focus on our ability to grow and change and evolve. “Our union can be perfected,” he said. “What we’ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”

The work doesn’t stop here—it is just beginning. But this is a truly historic day, and I’m bursting with excitement to answer Obama’s call to realize the potential of what we can be.

“This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.”